From Hitler's election to power in January 1933, Nazi Germany although exhibiting totalitarian elements lacked some required factors to characterize it fully as a totalitarian state. George Orwell suggested that totalitarianism is the ability for a political system or society where the individual does not exist, a single party controls every aspect of life.
The Treaty of Versailles, an ineffective Weimar Constitution, Munich Putsch (Beer Hall Putsch), and the Great Depression all contributed to Hitler and the Nazis gaining power in Germany in 1933.
The factors that helped Adolf Hitler establish a dictatorship in 1930s Germany included the U.S. stock market crash, the subsequent Great Depression, Hitler's oratory power, Hitler's appointment as chancellor, the Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act, and the "Night of the Long Knives."
How much did German children know about Nazi ideology? How did they feel about it? This investigation presents the main elements of Nazi education, and the attitudes of the children living under the regime.
Social and historical factors came into play that created a climate for the German dictatorship of Adolf Hitler. Germany had been devasted by World War I and the Treaty of Versailles and Germans were hungry for some type of new leadership.
The rise of Nazi Germany took place in part because of the strong desire among Germans for social movement, nationalism and the swastika represented the struggle and the belief in a supreme race. The Nazis taught their children this, making it easier to base a society on these principles.
