Many historians would argue that the Great Depression was solely responsible for the increasing support of the NSDAP and the defining factor for Hitler's success. ... Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP were essentially carried to complete power through their ideology and the promises they were offering to the German public, at a time when the people were desperate for someone who knew what they needed as a nation. ... Hitler, blaming it as a 'communist plot' saw for a Law for the Protection of the People and State to be necessary. Hindenburg passed this law, now banning any communist a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Ministry's objective was to ensure that the Nazi ideology was successfully communicated through art, music, theatre, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press. ... This propagandist documentary would be a defining platform for future documentaries being made for the sole purpose of total persuasion of an audience. ... They were taught to emphasise on external 'enemies' such as the Jews and communists, to believe in the science of eugenics to create the ideal 'perfect' race, to live up to German physical ideals and to take pride of the German race....

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• Grade Level: Graduate

This is something that caught me by surprise because I never knew that it was the way that they spoke to the people that influenced them to believe the Nazi Party and their ideology. It was also never clear to me that aside from the Holocaust being the systematic attempt to exterminate the Jewish people, Hitler also wanted to exterminate "Communists, Social Democrats, liberals-and so-called antisocial elements-vagrants, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and others.... The plan that Hitler had corrupted in his mind was to take over and eliminate all of which didn't incl...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate