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His speeches showed that he was a charismatic outstanding personality with self-confidence and energy. He knew how to influence and manipulate crowd; civilians, SA or German army. He spoke what people wanted to hear, what they were afraid to say but what they thought about. This was his weapon and he used it skillfully. He believed that German was a great nation and he made people to believe it. In his speeches and political program Hitler paid a lot of attention to propaganda of a new Germany, with iron order and strict social hierarchy. In order to solve political and economical problems Hitler proposed to eliminate "hidden enemies of state": Jews and communists. It was much easier to accuse someone in own faults than to find origins of the problem, and "hidden enemies of state" were the best scapegoats. Anti-Semitism was common for Germans in the twentieth century and it was often a part of German official imperial ideology since Middle Ages. It was not clearly expressed on public but it survived in minds of people, especially of poorly educated.
After victory in parliamentary elections of 1933, Hitler started usurpation of power. Fascists hired Dutchman adventurer Van-der-Lubbe to fire Reichstag (building of German parliament) in order to accuse communists in preparation for the revolt in the country. Countrywide anticommunist propaganda and Hinesburg's loyalty to Hitler's conservative ideas allowed him to get total control over the governmental system of the country using legal methods. Liberal constitution of Weimar republic allowed changes in political structure of state on the base of political need. Article 48 of Weimar constitution, which was also called decree of emergency (or Notverordnung provision) gave to the Reich president a number of privileges and rights to cut civil liberties and get control over state institutions on the bas of emergency need. Hitler used it in order to seize power and starts to promote polices of political repressions...
The Nazis rounded up 4,000 political activists, mostly Communists, but including several non-Communist intellectuals." (Chronicles of Holocaust)
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Hitler's Enabling Act was supported in the parliament by corrupted Social Democrats and as a result made Hitler the dictator of Germany. Such decision was not simultaneous, but it was a resultant of prolonged anti-communist political propaganda. Today we can discuss the horrors of Holocaust, national tragedies and crimes of Nazis, but at the same time we should understand that rise of fascism was caused by political premises and economical crisis faced by after war Germany. Humiliation of one European nation as a result had the very high price of 40 millions dead and hundred millions broken fates. Hitler's ideas failed to come true, humanism and western ideals of civilized society, which is based on Christian values, defeated antihuman ideology of Nazis. Hitler said that Third Reich had to last for millennium, but it fell 12 years after Hitler announced it.
Allies (USSR, United States and Great Britain) eliminated this plague of the twentieth century.
References
Ron Rosenbaum Explaining Hitler: The Search of the Origins of His Evil Harper Perennial 1999
David, Abraham The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis, Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1986
Sheridan, Allen, The Nazi seizure of Power: the experience of a single German town, 1922-1945 F. Watts, 1984
Chronicles of Holocaust available online:
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