Have you ever known someone who has had total control or a significant momentous amount of power and utilised it to suit their views and beliefs, even if it means committing terrible deeds? Adolf Hitler, the most despised and loathed dictator of history, was the leader of the strongly fascist Nazi Party in Germany and slowly moulded the country over time into a totalitarian state, giving him total control during the Third Reich (German history from 1933 to 1945 when under Hitler’s control):
Nazi Germany after 1933 undoubtedly fits the mould of a totalitarian state due to; it’s elimination of the previous political system, its systematic persecution and slaughter of specific minority groups and the secret police’s ruthless oppression of those considered a threat to Germany. This undeniably substantiates that Nazi Germany after 1933 exemplifies a totalitarian state.
To prove and solidify that Germany did fit the mould of a totalitarian state, there will be an explanation on Germany’s transformation into a totalitarian state and focus questions that will be answered to demonstrate the extent of this. Focus question one will be asking, ‘how was the Nazi’s Party systematic persecution and slaughter of minority groups a prime example of totalitarianism?’ Focus question two will inquire, ‘why did the Nazi Party eliminate certain constitutional aspects of the Reichstag or the previous Weimar political system in Germany and how did this provide Hitler the opportunity to make the nation a totalitarian state under his control?’ Focus question three will probe, ‘how was Hitler’s secret police or the Gestapo’s ruthless…show more content… The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.” – William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi
