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Essay / How did people react to Nazism? -941
1. Why is it difficult to really know how popular Hitler and the Nazis were among the German people? Briefing 6, “How People Reacted to Nazism,” clearly highlights the discrepancies between the German people's interpretations of Nazism and Hitler in the 1930s and after 1945, demonstrating uncertainty about Hitler's true popularity. Initially, in the 1930s, German citizens were unable to “express their dignity” and were forced to passively accept Nazi ideology. This pressure to conform to Hitler's homogeneous Volksgemeinschaft and the uniform propaganda of the mass media presented Germany as a homogenous society that admired Hitler. The photograph “A Nuremberg Rally” illustrates an expression of Hitler’s popularity through “massive Nazi Party rallies.” Furthermore, Briefing 6 explains that individual opinions on Hitler could not be substantiated since the totalitarian regime prevented elections after the Enabling Act of 1933, while plebiscites could be easily manipulated to reflect ideology Nazi. Conversely, after World War II in 1945, when the true extent of Hitler's horror and genocide was revealed, citizens denied "that they had been staunch supporters of the Nazis." Thus, Background Paper 6 fundamentally highlights the difficulty of asserting Hitler's popularity among German citizens.2. Why might people outside of Germany have greatly admired Hitler? Briefing 6's use of Lloyd George's praise of Hitler showed outward admiration for Hitler's regime, as it embodied a miraculous transformation. Above all, after the ruinous end of World War I and the Great Depression, the Gleichschaltung of Nazism seemed to have rebuilt the German economy, restored its national power, and fulfilled the material aspirations of...... middle of paper ... ...yellow dots The explanatory analysis of "the persecution of the Jewish people in Germany" demonstrated anti-Jewish violence as a broader and systematic campaign aimed at annihilating Jews in the process of creating the Volksgemeinschaft. This clearly underlines that the British from 1936 onwards were aware of the barbarity and cruelty of the Nazi regime, which was later confirmed by the Holocaust. Furthermore, the book's challenge to a "vocal and insistent protest of civilized conscience against the Nazis" obviously suggests that some Britons understood the horror of the Nazi totalitarian regime and implored the population to oppose the Nazis. . Thus, the publication of "The Yellow Spot" suggests that the British had a significant view of the mistreatment and prosecution of Jews, deeply imbued with Nazi racist ideology...