Day: August 24, 2016

HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS HITLER IN DOMESTIC AFFAIRS? There are conflicting views about this. Some argue that Hitler’s regime brought many benefits to the majority of the German people. Others believe that his whole career was a complete disaster and that his so-called successes were a myth created by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda. […]

HOW WAS HITLER ABLE TO STAY IN POWER? (a) The Enabling Law, 23 March 1933 Hitler was not satisfied with the election result. He was determined that he must be dependent on nobody except his Nazi party. While President Hindenburg was still in shock after the Reichstag fire, Hitler apparently persuaded him that emergency legislation […]

Nazi Counter-Revolution: Germany- Part II What did National Socialism stand for? In 1919, Adolf Hitler joined a small right-wing group called the German Workers’ Party. He took over as its leader and changed its name to the National Socialists (Nazis). selfstudyhistory.com The party developed a 25-Point Programme, which – after the failure of the Munich […]