When discussing Hitler and German people there are several things one MUST remember:
Hitler's Party held the most seats in Parliament, in the Reichstag and he was
appointed Chancellor, in 1933. He did have the backing of the German people because of a couple of things.
1) Hitler's promise of improving the economy and the German Mark. Hyperinflation hit German in the early-mid 1920's and the Reichsmark was destroyed. Partly due to reparations demanded in the Versailles Treaty. That and the world wide depression of '29-32 put millions out of work in Germany.
2) due to Versailles Treaty, parts of Germany were given to other countries. Parts of West Prussia to Poland and Belarus. Parts of East Prussia to Poland to form the "Polish corridor" a passage by land to the North/Baltic sea, which cut East Prussia off and separated it from Germany by land. Hitler's promise of reunification. My mother aunts/uncles and grand parents living in East Prussia supported both moves.
Hitler accomplished the first by opening plants to manufacture military equipment employing millions. Which will work for almost any depressed economy - go to war.
Hitler accomplished the 2nd by invading Poland Sept 1939 6 years after taking office.
What they didn't know in '33 was how all this was to be done. They were campaign promises as goals without the how. Even as that is done now in campaigns all over the world, even in the US. (What waste is Elon going to cut?)
Between '33 and '39 Hitler silenced all opposing voices in Germany. Newspapers and politicians. The Nazi Party formed and took seats in 1930. With that Hitler as leader of the Nazi Party, re-established the SA or Brown Shirts as a police force. Snipped from Britannica:
SA, in the German
Nazi Party, a
paramilitary organization whose methods of violent intimidation played a key role in
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.
Ernst RöhmErnst Röhm, 1933.
The SA was founded in
Munich by Hitler in 1921 out of various roughneck elements that had attached themselves to the
fledgling Nazi movement. It drew its early membership largely from the
Freikorps (Free Corps), armed freebooter groups, made up largely of ex-soldiers, that battled leftists in the streets in the early days of the
Weimar Republic. Outfitted in brown uniforms after the fashion of
Benito Mussolini’s Fascist
Blackshirts in Italy, the SA men protected party meetings, marched in Nazi rallies, and physically assaulted political opponents. Temporarily in disarray after the failure of Hitler’s
Munich Putsch in 1923, the SA was reorganized in 1925 and soon resumed its violent ways, intimidating voters in national and local elections. From January 1931 it was headed by
Ernst Röhm, who harboured radical anticapitalist
notions and dreamed of building the SA into
Germany’s main military force. Under Röhm SA membership, swelled from the ranks of the
Great Depression’s unemployed, grew to 400,000 by 1932 and to perhaps 2,000,000—20 times the size of the regular army—by the time that Hitler came to power in 1933.
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SA troopsSA troops locking hands to prevent Jews from entering the University of Vienna.
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newspaper coverage of the Night of the Long KnivesArticle about the Night of the Long Knives on the front page of the Pennsylvanian newspaper
The Bethlehem Globe-Times, July 2, 1934.(more)
During the early days of the Nazi regime, the SA carried out unchecked street violence against Jews and Nazi opponents. But it was eyed with suspicion by the regular army and by the wealthy industrialists, two groups whose support Hitler was trying to secure. Against Hitler’s expressed wishes, Röhm continued to press for a “second Nazi revolution” of a socialist character, and he hoped to merge the regular army with the SA under his own leadership. On June 30, 1934, the
Night of the Long Knives (
die Nacht der langen Messer), Hitler, using
SS forces, carried out a “Blood Purge” of the SA leadership. Röhm and dozens of SA leaders were summarily executed. Thereafter the SA, reduced in strength, continued to exist but
ceased to play a major political role in Nazi affairs. From 1939 it was in charge of training all able-bodied men for Home Guard units.
SA, in the German Nazi Party, a paramilitary organization whose use of violent intimidation played a key role in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. When the SA leadership threatened Hitler’s plans for the future of the Nazi Party, he had them murdered in a ‘Blood Purge’ known as the Night of the Long...
www.britannica.com
When the voice of the opposition is gone, mostly through lawfare and violence, the single voice that is left, sounds normal. -Hitler.
So when the only voice that is left singles out a group as to blame for all the countries problems it is accepted as truth, and it is acted on.
The normal voice of Hitler and the blame is when Hitler gave his speech Jan 30, 1939 the 6 year anniversary of his .Chancellorship. He revealed the how it was all to be done, and by then it was to late to change it. Get with the program or die.
Everyone on this board should realize that this is true as practiced by our own government over the last 4 years. Blaming straight white men, Conservative Christians, and PTA moms and dads for this countries woes, not accepting Covid 19 vax's, Climate change.
If one were to live in the echo chamber of the progressive liberal left, everything they say sounds normal. Men can have babies, 3 YO can choose their sex, we're all going to die by 2035, etc....
Not so strange is it when a whole country follows a maniac. Half the country in the US already is.