How did the average....?

Question

How did the average people people contribute to the power of the Nazi party? and what factors modivated the average german to do what they did?

minus the extra "people" ooops sorry

Answer 1

While the Nazi Party clearly appealed to a faction of the more intellectually inferior and racist members of the working class, it is important to remember that, like Bush, Hitler was not elected into power. He was brought to power by the German wealthy elite in an effort to resolve their own economic decline. Mussolini also came to power as a result of the decline of the Italian wealthy elite. As Mussolini himself noted, "Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is the merge of state and corporate power."

Answer 2

Why did the Germans follow Hitler? This question has been argued for decades. My MA attempted to address this issue. My theory is as follows:

The Nazis, using well-developed propaganda techniques, created a society based on falsehoods and twisted information. The zeitgeist of the 1800s was mined for its ideas and Josef Goebbels, minister of propaganda, fed these ideas to the people. The goal was to create an image of an ideal Germany from the past and then transfer this "ideal" to the Nazi Party. The Nazis fed the people an image of a party deeply connected to the past and to this "ideal" Germany. They also established a climate of fear, suspicion, and hatred fed by the disastrous close of World War I and the frightening grip of the Gestapo. Most Germans were not members of the Nazi Party. What they are 'guilty' of is ignoring the truth behind the lies and standing by while monsters took over. This is not unique in history. Far too many people sit back and let terrible governments take over based on lies.

Answer 3

The desire to live and blind ignorance contributed to the nazi party and motivated them to turn Jews over to the nazis.
I find the question interesting only because of how nonchalant the loss of lives are in the statement. Oops! minus the missing people.

Answer 4

The 400 000 'blockleiters' or block leaders were in many ways the most important members of the Nazi party, with one based in every street in Germany it was their job to spy on their neighbors and report misconduct to the Gestapo. The fact that no one knew who was spying on who greatly added to the power of the Nazi party.

Answer 5

Disregard the typically politically charged anwsers above me. Text book purposes where that the Germans really did need a leader. Many of the "academia and wealthy" members of society were against HItler because he was a socialist, which meant redistribution of their wealth. In fact it was the people who suffered most at the hands of the first World War, and it was the people whose popularity brought Hitler to power. In the end it was again the people who suffered, when they were drafted into his Army. Soon after Hitler took power, and before the US was ever involved, the "Academia and Wealthy Elites" escaped to other nations and the US.

Answer 6

HUH.......