Why Hitler whom people think was cruel can gain a lot of follower? let me tell you why.
The
key reason to support Hitler and the Nazi regime was Hitler himself. Aided
greatly by propaganda genius Goebbels,
Hitler was able to present an image of himself as a superhuman, even god like
figure. He wasn’t portrayed as a politician, as Germany had had enough of them,
instead he was seen as above politics. He was all things to a lot of people although a set of minorities soon found that Hitler didn’t just not care about
their support, but wanted to persecute, even exterminate them instead – and by
changing his message to suit different audiences, but stressing himself as the
leader at the top, he began to bind the support of disparate groups together,
building enough to rule, modify and then doom Germany.
Hitler
wasn’t seen as a socialist, a monarchist, a democrat, like many rivals, instead
he was portrayed and accepted as being Germany itself, the one man who’d cut
across the many sources of anger and discontent in Germany and cure them all.
He
wasn’t widely seen as a power hungry racist, but someone putting Germany and
‘Germans’ first. Indeed, Hitler managed to look like someone who would unite
Germany rather than push it to extremes: he was praised for stopping a left
wing revolution by crushing the socialists and communists (first in street
fights and elections, then by putting them in camps), and praised again after
the Night of the
Long Knives for stopping his own right (and still some left) wingers
from starting their own revolution. Hitler was the unifier, the one who halted
chaos and bought everyone together.
It
has been argued that at a crucial point in the Nazi regime the propaganda
stopped making the Fuhrer myth successful, and Hitler’s image started making
the propaganda work: people believed the war could be won, and believed
Goebbels carefully crafted work, because Hitler was in charge.
He was aided here by a piece of luck, and some
perfect opportunism. Hitler had taken power in 1933 on a wave of discontent
caused by the depression, and luckily for him the global economy began to
improve in the 1930s without Hitler having to do anything except claim the
credit, which was freely given to him. Hitler had to do more with foreign
policy, and as a great many people in Germany wanted the Treaty of
Versailles negated Hitler’s early manipulation of European politics
to reoccupy German land, unite with Austria, then take Czechoslovakia, and
still further the swift and victories wars against Poland and France won him
many admirers. Few things boost a leader’s support than winning a war, and it
gave Hitler plenty of capital to spend when the Russian war went wrong
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