... he said and promised them. Another reason that helped the Nazis gained power was that after WW1 the Communists violently attempted to overthrow the government. Many people since then feared a communist takeover. Thus for the moderate German the Nazi Party only proved to be strong enough to ... prevent a communist capture of the country. Totalitarianism is government control over all aspects of a particular country and a person's life. A totalitarian state is usually led by a dictator, which is "above" the law and has the power over life and ... ruthlessly prosecuted and the armies as wel...

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... that he initially spied on. It had a militarist 'eastern' oriented, anti-Semitic, nationalist foreign policy, with a domestic policy of state-controlled 'socialism'. It was basically the policy of the previous totalitarian militarist regime, with a big dose of added antisemitism, and like the communists, it addressed the wide public of workers and ex-soldiers. In 1923 the German economy collapsed into wild ... replaced many senior police officers with Nazis. They expanded the secret police with Nazi officers. Four days later Hitler used his emergency authority to issue an order that all...

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... be targeted by the Nazi's, were oppositional political parties, such as the Communist. Upon taking office in early 1933, Hitler and his government prohibited all Communists assemblies and Communist media. As well, outlawed meetings and rallies being held by the Social Democrats or had them smashed ... this law could lead to imprisonment. What seems to be the most shocking aspect of this law, which as a result made Germany a totalitarian state, was that the Nazi party was able to achieve this status with little opposition from other political parties. In conclusion, the Nazi ... rights th...

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... 1933-1939. The Great Depression reached Germany in the early months of 1930. This situation created calamity in the German political arena that resulted in the weakening of the newfound government headed by Heinrich Bruening in the Weimar period. The elections of September 1930 brought about the extraordinary unforseen development; the Nazi Party increased its representation in the Reichstag from 12 ... General von Schleicher), by 1933 there only existed two candidates to take over as Chancellor subsequent to Schleicher's forced resignation: Papen and Hitler. Hitler rejected Papen's sugg...

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... of unemployment completely. The people who voted for the Nazis were not just the unemployed. Many employed people also voted communist. They wanted a government who could seize control of banks and businesses, to take their money and spread it between the poor. It is highly likely that many ... Stalin the Russian population was beaten into servitude. He chose his victims with stony ruthlessness eliminating millions of enemies, both real and imagined. All totalitarian regimes demand "total" control of the society and its economy by dictatorial power and this is what Stalin gained, total co...

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... the aggressive powers. The aggressive powers were called The Axis; they included Italy, Germany and Japan. Those countries formed an alliance because of their similarities: they were all ruled under a totalitarian government , they shared the same goals, they were very aggressive and ambitious countries in search of new land and its resources, and they at around the same time all began conquering ... all busy with their own affairs "getting through the Great Depression. "There are two worlds that stand opposed to each other,"" Hitler claimed. He means that other forms of government and ...

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