Adolf Hitler Research Paper
Hitler’s aims and achievements Aims
1: Get all Germans reunited in a single state – Grossdeutschland, ein volk
2: Smash the treaty of Versailles and build a strong army
3: Get Lebensraum in the East
4: Just Expansion (Historiographical debate)?
5: Get All Jews out of Germany (final solution?)
6: Total Control/Totalitarianism (Establish total power and total support)
7: Decrease unemployment and revive German economy for popular support and rearmament
8: Economic self-sufficiency (autarchy)
9: If the raison d’être of the economy was to allow Hitler to fulfil his ideological ambitions through war then he ultimately failed
10: Nazi Family Values
Creating a master race
Aims and achievements
1: Get all Germans reunited in a single …show more content…
2: Cult of Personality was complete as was control of media (except small Socialist Action and the Catholic newspapers (until 1941)) and cultural activities (Swinger movement did listen to foreign music and wore English style clothing).
3: There was a strong control of people’s lives including the young ones who were obliged to join HJ 1939, and the women who were restricted on jobs (alternative groups did exist and Nazis failed to increase the birth-rates to the 1920 level).
4: Economy was an area where Hitler never got complete control, partly because he needed the support of the industrialists. Many inside the party wanted a 2nd revolution (notably SA and their leader Ersnt Röhm) but the economic system continued in many ways the way it was: Schacht – a non-Nazi – was Reichsbank Minister and Reich Economics Minister until 1937, and private capitalism survived. Hitler sought to mobilise for total war (the total mobilisation of the economy to support a long war) but did not manage to achieve that until mid-1940s. He did however increase government …show more content…
Public work schemes as for example the construction of a 7000km autobahn, and deficit financing, and rearmament.
However: Jews banned from statistics, 2 years conscription meant no unemployment for young men, women were encouraged to give up their jobs, Marxists were arrested
“The Nazi economic miracle was statistical illution” – Kershaw
Revive German Economy for war:
a) 1939 GNP was 33% higher than in 1929
b) 66% of investment went on
1: Get all Germans reunited in a single state – Grossdeutschland, ein volk
2: Smash the treaty of Versailles and build a strong army
3: Get Lebensraum in the East
4: Just Expansion (Historiographical debate)?
5: Get All Jews out of Germany (final solution?)
6: Total Control/Totalitarianism (Establish total power and total support)
7: Decrease unemployment and revive German economy for popular support and rearmament
8: Economic self-sufficiency (autarchy)
9: If the raison d’être of the economy was to allow Hitler to fulfil his ideological ambitions through war then he ultimately failed
10: Nazi Family Values
Creating a master race
Aims and achievements
1: Get all Germans reunited in a single …show more content…
2: Cult of Personality was complete as was control of media (except small Socialist Action and the Catholic newspapers (until 1941)) and cultural activities (Swinger movement did listen to foreign music and wore English style clothing).
3: There was a strong control of people’s lives including the young ones who were obliged to join HJ 1939, and the women who were restricted on jobs (alternative groups did exist and Nazis failed to increase the birth-rates to the 1920 level).
4: Economy was an area where Hitler never got complete control, partly because he needed the support of the industrialists. Many inside the party wanted a 2nd revolution (notably SA and their leader Ersnt Röhm) but the economic system continued in many ways the way it was: Schacht – a non-Nazi – was Reichsbank Minister and Reich Economics Minister until 1937, and private capitalism survived. Hitler sought to mobilise for total war (the total mobilisation of the economy to support a long war) but did not manage to achieve that until mid-1940s. He did however increase government …show more content…
Public work schemes as for example the construction of a 7000km autobahn, and deficit financing, and rearmament.
However: Jews banned from statistics, 2 years conscription meant no unemployment for young men, women were encouraged to give up their jobs, Marxists were arrested
“The Nazi economic miracle was statistical illution” – Kershaw
Revive German Economy for war:
a) 1939 GNP was 33% higher than in 1929
b) 66% of investment went on