Thursday, December 12, 2019

The Rise of the Nazi Party



The Rise of the Nazi Party

In 1919, an angry Adolf Hitler was suffering from the economic depression that had come through the rules of the treaty of Versailles. Adolf Hitler met with Karl Harrer and Anton Drexler while in an organization called the German Workers Party. As the three shared their ideas with each other, they found that the suffering of World War I had too much for a country to suffer through. The desperate Germans looked for something to blame, and Adolf Hitler offered the ideas that the Jews were the reason why the Germans had to suffer. Germans were intrigued by this idea, and consequently, Hitler took his first steps towards the creation of the Nazi party.

Before Hitler gained control of Germany, his path was shakier then would have been expected. Hitler and the Nazi Party at the time tried to take over Bavaria, part of Germany. Hitler attempted to overthrow the government with his followers. When he was in jail, his publicity rose and turned him into a national figure. People learned about his beliefs and started to join the Nazi Party out of desperation.

During the election of 1932, Hitler was elected by the German people. His first steps in office included banning the creation of other political parties, withdrawing Germany from the league of nations, and giving power to the Nazi party in Germany.

The Nazi party used its power to attack Jews by taking them to concentration camps, where Jews were burned, starved, and constantly killed. Massive concentration camps were created all around Germany and Poland, one of the more famous camps, Auschwitz, had killed 1.1 million people. These Jews were killed because they were blamed for the economic collapse of Germans and Hitler.

The Nazi party is known by the Swastika and the salute of extending the right arm upwards. The Swastika was originally a symbol of good fortune until used by Hitler for the creation of the Nazi party.

Sources
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nazi-party
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/history-of-the-swastika

3 comments:

  1. This blog was super informative! I've always known Hitler's general background, but it's nice to learn about his rise to power in more depth. I like how you explained that Hitler's early career was not exactly successful. To go a little further back, I'd like to add that Hitler's original goals in life were not politically driven: He originally wanted to study fine arts. You also mentioned how his publicity rose in jail, which more specifically was due to the book her wrote when serving time called "Mein Kampf". Additionally, the idea of of blaming Jews for German suffering was known as "scapegoating". Very interesting blog overall, thanks!

    https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/adolf-hitler-1

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  2. This is very helpful for someone in an American history class. That is because we don't talk as much about the political parties in Europe. For example, the Nazi party, isn't talked about in American history and I didn't take European history so this was valuable information. It helps you get the big picture of whats going on and maybe understand why certain things are happening.

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  3. This blog was informational and liked getting some background information about how the Nazi party came to be. I liked how you gave some details about Hitler's life, for example, when you stated how he went to jail and rose up as a national figure. After becoming the leader of the nazi party and becoming Chancellor of Germany, he established the first concentration camp in 1933. While the camps were created to hold political opponents, Hitler's belief on the Aryan race caused him to place innocent people in these camps.
    Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps

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