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Fascism Characteristics in Hitler - Coggle Diagram
Fascism Characteristics in Hitler
Cultural
Censorship
Hitler abolished the right of freedom of speech and the freedom of the press
As a result Hitler began to controll all forms of communication and turned the press, radio, literature, painting, and film into propaganda tools
Some of the censorship Hitled made was:
Closing or taking over the anti-Nazi newspapers
Controlling and supervising the news
Books that did not conform to Nazi
beliefs were burned in huge bonfires
Controlling what soldiers wrote home during World War II
Indoctrination
All schoolchildren had to join
Boys
The Hitler Youth
Students were indoctrinated with the National Socialist worldview
The students were educated to be race conscious, obedient and self-sacrificing, willing to die for the Führer and the Fatherland.
Girls
League of German Girls
Secret Police
Hitler creates the SS
An elite black uniformed unit that was only loyal to Hitler.
The SS was incharge of:
Arresting and murdering Hitlers enemies
This action produce in the citizens:
Terror
Obedience
Social
Economic anxiety
This economic anxiety reflected to some extent the membership of the group.
This anxiety had been unduly generated by economic elites and other groups belonging to high society.
Within these positions could be found a large number of university professors, high school teachers, military officers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
While on the other hand, in the lower ranks of the party, white-collar workers were overrepresented and blue-collar workers were underrepresented.
Anti-democratic tendencies
In general, the Nazi party opposed liberal politics and favored a one-party dictatorship in its place.
The Nazi Party opposed all the aforementioned because they saw them as threats to their authority. They were also against opposition parties, unions, and other elements of civil society.
Anti-communism
Communism was fiercely opposed by the Nazis.
Through the Nazis' ideology, which was founded on the notion that their race was superior.
Through this ideology, their main goals were, to establish an authoritarian and totalitarian state.
Through this goals they wanted to ensure racial purity and the dominance of the German people.
Some of the main characteristics are
Eradication of communist groups
Cooperation with anti-communist groups.
Opposition to the Marxist theory.
Economic
Weimar Republic
Economic Inestablity, Dawes plan stopped
Germany became stucked, now the country was alone with the debt and did not have the resources to pay it, the situation in people worsened and people hated more the government
Unemployment reign the country
Economy in crisis, Inequality and Unemployment
Detonating point, people thinked governement did nothing but didnt expressed it, Hitler promised economy and minimun wealth for people
Inequiality and unemployment in extremely dangerous percentages, people starving and government lost in what to do
Treaty of Versailles demanding high resources
People thought the treaty was a humillation and felt in mourning for their country
Dawes plan which was the one helping them with the debt came down due to the Great Depression and now Germany was alone
People tired of a weak government
Hitler used this to show himself as a strong leader by propaganda, speeches and all of his engaging tools, he promised to fight the crisis and recover the country and its pride
Experiments with democracy created a constant rotating government which did not produced solutiones to the country, this caused the economy to keep constantly getting worse
People did not like the current government
People felt Hitler was their leader and understand them due to the expression of ideas everyone had but no one expressed
Hitler speeches manipulated people by the easiest way, psichologycally using their feelings to convince them, also he used logic and Facts like the treaty
Basic Principles
The state was more important than the individual
This meant nationalism in which the citizens would give everything they had in order to serve their country, thinking of it as above any other
Hitler would always think of Germany as the most powerful country and in order to maintain its power he would wipe any un pure blood from it
Authoritarianism
Blind submission to authority and the repression of individual freedom
Hitler would use fear and oppression in order to silence anyone who would be against his rule
Charismatic leader
A leader who uses his or her communication skills, persuasiveness, and charm to influence others.
Hitler would often use his speeches as a form to win over the agreement of the citizens in order to to justify his actions
Politcal
Nationalism: Extreme German Pride of the “Aryans”, the superior race
Hitler applied racism in his regime, rejecting other races creating a common enemy for the people to believe in
Vowed to regain German lands - Lebensraum
Wave of anti-Semitism across Germany
One-Party Rule:
Called
the Versailles Treaty an outrage
Stirring up fear of the communists
Banned
all other political parties and had opponents arrested
SS arrested and murdered hundreds of Hitler’s
enemies
Gestapo applied terror on the people
Churches were forbidden to criticize the
Nazis or the government
Supreme Leader
Success as an organizer and speaker led him to be chosen der Furer
Previously named as chancellor – won a parliamentary majority