How did Hitler Control Germany

How did Hitler control Germany?

Hitler was a dictator. This means that he had complete control over Germany and nobody could stop him. When Hitler was in power, he got rid of all opposition with the help of his secret helpers (The S.S, The S.A, The Gestapo & The Hitler Youth.) Hitler ruled out any aspect of democracy, the people of Germany had no say in anything that happened in their country. They were not even allowed to suggest ideas to Hitler, anything that changed about Germany was because of Hitler and because he decided to change it.
To help Hitler control the country, apart from controlling the government, Hitler had special weapons should we say, these “weapons” were actually individual groups that Hitler formed out of different types of citizens in Germany for different purposes to give him all means of control of Germany. There were 4 different groups (The S.S, The S.A, The Gestapo & The Hitler Youth.) The S.S were an elite part of the army. Each member was chosen because they were dedicated to Hitler. They were often used to arrest Hitler’s opponents. This helped Hitler because this made sure he had no form of opposition therefor nobody had the power to overthrow him and take away his power. The S.A were a big group of violent thugs who were dedicated to Hitler. They were used to smash up buildings and intimidate people. This helped Hitler because it intimidated the citizens of Germany and made everyone obey him no matter what. The Gestapo were a vital part of these groups. They were Hitler’s secret police. They were Unidentifiable so that they could not be recognised. They had the power to arrest anybody at anytime for whatever they wanted. This helped Hitler because it made sure that all the criminals stopped what they were doing because they were scared and decreased Germanys crime rate purely because of fear. The final group was the Hitler Youth. These were members of the boy scouts who were taught to spy for the authorities and pass on any vital information they gathered that was secretly being passed around. They were taught to be extremely loyal to Hitler. This helped Hitler because he would find out if any one was planning on overthrowing him or protesting against him and arrest those people immediately.
Another way that Hitler controlled Germany was by the use of propaganda. Propaganda was a very clever and sneaky way of getting a false message across to the citizens of Germany. Propaganda was used in Germany to basically brainwash the people into thinking what Hitler was promoting was amazing and would make Germany a free happy country, when really it was quite the opposite. Propaganda had between 2-10 words that were basic words or short statements that stuck in people minds, and that was the power of propaganda, the slogans were so simple they would stick in peoples minds. These propaganda posters helped Hitler control Germany because they persuaded the people to support Hitler and to be on Hitler’s side and make them want to contribute to his campaigns in any way possible, giving him power over the people.
One more way that Hitler controlled Germany was through education. Germany was not a particularly poor country at the time so just like in Britain all children went to school and even some adults to improve education, grammar, understanding of history and basic skills. At the time in Germany when Hitler became in control he made sure that the Nazi’s took control and managed schools so they were all based around skills for him. They did this by closing all church schools so that the schools didn’t focus on religion but only the new ‘Hitler Education. ’ The “Hitler Education” was the new education that was taught in all schools for children, the average lessons changed to life skills Hitler wanted the children to learn what were his dreams of the future and make them believe that was right and anything else was wrong. For example Hitler changed all the lessons that were taught apart from basic grammar, however he changed the history lessons so that the kids were taught all the bad things that other countries had done to Germany in the past so that they were in favour of war. He also made new lessons like for girls the lessons were how to find the perfect man, in this lesson the kids were taught that the perfect family was Aryan (blonde hair, blue eyes) and anything else was imperfect and wrong. Also the kids were taught what males and females were supposed to do, males were supposed to go out and work in factories and the women were supposed to stay home to cook, clean and look after the kids. He also taught them that is a family didn’t go by these rules and women go to work in factories or anything else that this was absolutely wrong. The Nazi’s focused on the children of Germany so much because they were the most influential they were easily brainwashed into thinking what was right and what was wrong (in Hitler’s eyes.) Influencing the children helped Hitler control Germany because the more influenced the kids are the more they tell their parents and persuade them how amazing Hitler is and how they should be in favour of him. Therefor this meant more adults would vote for Hitler and be in favour of his campaign. This links into propaganda because both propaganda and education were used at this time in Germany to brainwash the country, and making more people believe in Hitler.
In conclusion, put together all these different factors made Hitler extremely powerful and in control of Germany because every aspect of him being overruled was no longer existent purely because he made sure that any of these aspects were demolished throughout the country. I believe these methods were completely successful purely because by the end of Hitler’s campaign he had the whole of Germany backing his side and without the whole of Germany he wouldn’t have had as much of an army meaning less attacking and defensive systems equalling in Germany being overruled by America, France and Britain. In my opinion I think that the factor that worked best was Hitler’s four secret groups because they put the whole country under fear of even thinking about over-ruling Hitler and out ruling any opposition leaving him firmly in power.

By Natasha Gada.