Did Hitler fool his people or did he just play on their FEAR and HATE ?

Question

How did he get his people to go along with his "World Domination" agenda and "The Final Solution"?

Was he really a mastermind or was he just taught how to manipulate the masses ?

Did he have to convince them or just ease there conscience so they would do what the little devil in us wants ?

Answer 1

Hitler did not fool anyone.The Germans -except communists- loved him.
The Germans hated the Jews because they held them responsible for loosing WW1.They believed that the german Jews sided with GB and the USA to advance Jewish interests in the expense of Germany and used the positions they had as german citizens against Germany.So they were only happy to get rid of the Jews ,that they considered an enemy within the country.And that was long before Hitler.
Hitler was great for Germany -Germany ,not humanity- until the war was declared.Until then ,most of the people loved him.Germany was a democracy and he was voted ,whether we like it or not.And with a great majority.

glenbarrington

I understand it is difficult for an American to understand European mentality.To be European means to belong to a nation ,to have roots 2000 or more years old and to preserve them.To be an American it is enough to have an American passport.When we fight however we all fight for our interests as each understands it.
Why is it "really horrible stuff" to preserve my history ,my language ,my civilization and my race?It was war.Why is killing Jews horrible and nuking Japanese women and children is not?Are your "collateral damages" any better?And you are not even fighting for your homes.You are doing it for money all over the world with a mercenary army.The damages Europe suffered when you were trying to liberate it were worst than both WW.And i am not counting german casualties.

Killing people is bad enough as it is.Ánd there is NOTHING heroic about it.

Mac
A European

Answer 2

After doing a lot of reading I would say that Adolf Hitler knew how to play up to a crowd. He was the mastermind of the Holocaust and he taught the masses how to hate using fear and hatred. It's a amazing when you are scared and frighten and your whole world has turn upside down what you will believe especially if the lie is told over and over again that your culture is the best in the world, other cultures are bad and should be destroyed. Hitler knew his history and use the hatred Europeans Christians had against the Jewish people to help plot the course of the holocaust. He knew what he was doing and he managed to convince the Germans in Germany and other people from various European countries that what they were doing against the Jewish people was the right thing to do. Even today these same people who were caught for working with the Nazi to destroy the Jewish People are in denial for what they did. They said they did nothing wrong and they only were following orders so in a sense Hitler managed to convince them that they were in the right and he did ease their conscience so they could do the work of the little devil in all of us wants us to do from time to time.

Answer 3

Hitler didn't fool his people. The German people knew what was going on, they just didn't understand it. In the early twentieth century and still in a lesser way today, German culture was one that was very deferential to authority and that had been severly lacking during the years of the Weimar Republic. No one could agree on anything, the economy was in shambles and it just kept getting worse as every political belief got more radical. That's when Hitler came and "out radicaled" them all. (Sorry about that horrible term but it works) and the Germans loved him for it. Order returned, food was on the table, money was worth something again. To put it simply Hitler just dulled the German taste for politcal action and kept building on it. Then he started eliminating the most "undesirable" elements of society. He started with the Communists and Anarchists. Then it was homosexuals and the handicapped (there wasn't much of a differentiation between the two of them at the time) then he finally moved onto the ethnic "undesirables" ie Jews and Gypsies. At first his response was more tasteful institutionalization, and then deportation etc. See where I'm going. It was a slow build-up. By the time it got to invading other countries and shipping Jews to the gas chamber, Hitler had built up to those moments so carefully no one was concerned enough to do anything about it. They looked at it like they were bringing the saving graces of Nazism to the rest of Europe while the train loads of Jews going east mattered little given there was even more trainloads of tanks and soldiers going east and never coming back. I really don't think the Germans really got just what Hitler was until the Red Army made Berlin and told the Allies and Germans both what they had found.

ULtimately I guess my answer is he eased the German conscience as far as it could go and used occupied Poland to hide the rest.

Answer 4

I've come to the conclusion that Europeans are predisposed to this type of behavour/beliefs anyway. European history is full of it So I don't think he had to work very hard in either case. He played on their fears and prejudices.

He said out loud what they were thinking (and still think, which is why pro-Nazi speech is outlawed, they know they can't control themselves ) and then conjured up some phoney balony 'proof'.

EXCELLENT question by the way, I voted a thumbs up on your query. If I could give you an extra 5 points for making me think, I would!

BTW, to any Europeans reading this. I don't believe you are any worse than any other group, you aren't. Plenty of bad stuff happens all over the world. But the question IS about how/why Hitler was able to convince a significant number of Europeans (not just Germans) to do some really horrible stuff. Your particular racial/cultural weaknesses in this regard are a valid topic of discussion.

Answer 5

He did not really batter about any people. all he wanted was power. Just before he killed him self, he stated what a stupid nation the Germans are that he should stick to the Japanese instead. He was an Austrian from his mother side.
It is not clear who was his real father. there are speculations, that he could be a Jewish Czech, but is still a mystery.
Yes he was a mastermind with a genial ability to manipulate masses, but you need to consider the economical and political situation of Germany when he came to power.
Also his dictator was based on lies. So many didn't knew about his evil. After him the communist copied exactly all his strategies.

Answer 6

I think you're closer to it with the latter answer. What most people forget is how seductive Nazi ideology was. They didn't just say to people, "let's murder 12 million people! What do you think?". We pretty much ignore the whole nazi aesthetic...the focus on beauty, on health, on a return to the good old days of community and being tied to the land. They adopted a sort of intellectual anti-intellectualism... hard to explain, but basically that the wisdom of the volk (what you could learn on instinct, or just knew) was the greatest thing, and that ivory-tower thinking was dangerous and deprived. Hell, much of what made the nazis nazis is still around today, but no one notices, because they focus solely on what Nazism led to, not on how it became so popular. The nazis revitalized the economy, they made people feel worthwhile, and like they had a great destiny. This was important after the humilation of the treaty of versailles. And it was a humilations. There were no real victors in the first world war. The entry of the americans broke a virtual stalemate, but it was still an armistice and not a surrender. The treaty, the war debt, and the crushing poverty it led to meant that much of germany felt stabbed in the back. It made them all to open to the seductions of the 'easy answer'. Germany was not subject to the evil of a few madmen. It was subject to the small, cumulative evil of ordinary people who allowed themselves to be led down the darkest of paths by those few evil men (who will be reviled and cursed as long as they are remembered)...the germans were nevertheless doubly damned by their own choices, more than any other person or leader could ever damn them...

oh, hilter et al played on their fear, and their hate, but it was more than that.

Answer 7

During the post WWI era when Hitler was growing up and maturing things were very bad in Germany. Many Germans as well as other races believed the Jews were the masterminds of any calamity that befell them. Hitler joined the Nazi party and during a raid on one of there gatherings was arrested and jailed. While in jail he wrote the book Mien Kemp. It was from the reaction to this book that he got his political following. This is when he was elected to chancellor of Germany. Hitler saw to the rearming of Germany, this had been forbidden in the peace agreement to end WWI. The Germans thought he was the right man for their country. He was masterful in that he knew how to surround himself with like minded people and he really knew how to manipulate the masses. He used his voice and words to convince the Germans that he knew what to do to stop the Jewish problem. I am not sure that the majority of the populace of Germany knew that his solution would be mass murder. I doubt that most Germans of that time would have approved of the extermination of 6 million Jews. So I guess to answer your first question he played on their fear and hate.

Answer 8

Germans wanted to take their revenge after Versailles (1919 were they were punished for WWi)
Hitler said to his people he will offer them the revenge.
That's not all: the conception of the nation by the german was different than others: the nation is all the people who speak the same language, so the others are bad and inferior.
Hitler was also a very good orator and he had no difficulty no convince his people.
They were persuaded to do right...

Answer 9

I believe that he used a little bit of both. I mean he was a terribly good mastermind look how far he got without anyone trying to initially stop him. I mean when he first started out there were people in the us that were wearing the nazi uniform becuase we thought that he was doing something right. Also he did play on the fear of people becuase basically it was join or die a terrible death, and also if you were to ever go against him he would
make sure that you regretted it. he also found the right people that hated certain groups of individuals. I believe that he fooled the right people and scared everyone else.

Answer 10

It was a little of both, mostly he did through propaganda, using the media to spread his lies. Essentially he took a depressed and prideless nation, and made them proud to be Germans, he manipulated everyone into thinking that everyone outside Germany was the enemy and inferior to the Germans. The german people were so desperate to regain the prdie they had before WW1 left them decimated.Hitler was the one man that stepped up and delivered them a message of hope.As he rose to power, he slowly began to manipulate the message of hope, with so many loyal followeres, no one dare mess with him, i would urge you to to a little bit of history on Hitler, his rise to power, Quite intrigueing, I asked myself the same question in high school and researched my self, im not a nazi and dont agree with what he did, i just wanted now how it happened.