In Hitler's attempt to gain political control and power he used coercion through a process of force and threats to influence people. ... Coercion is forcing people against their will to do what one wants them to do. Although threats and force can change behavior, they usually aren't the best approach. ...
Kerchaw recognizes that Hitler used fear and hatred Jews as a bonding force, as a way to force all patriotic Germans to be behind him without leaving any dissenting voices; "All splits were to be avoided in the struggle against the most terrible enemy of the German peopleJewry and Marxism" (Kerchaw 265). ...
After all of that one could still see how under those conditions with public opinion being the driving force behind most leaders and the conditions of the war how the harsh punishments imposed on Germany could be avoided. ... With this in mind the leaders had to greatly reduce and demoralize the German people by first and formost stating that the Germans were not to have a navy or air force. ...
Was The Holocaust a Product Of Long Term Planning or Improvisation under the Impact of Wartime Circumstances? The Genocide of over six Jewish million people by the German government during the Second World War is the largest massacre of modern times. Most people consider it to be the result of ex...
