Nazi Regime
...er, Hitler used fear tactics and propaganda to keep the people in line. One example of how Hitler dealt with other parties who opposed him was “The Night of the Long Knives”(appendix a), where the SA leader (Ernst Röhm) was instructed to gather troops and squash all party leaders who rivalled and opposed him. Nationalism (defined by The Australian Oxford Dictionary) is a patriotic feeling or policy of national independence. The Nazi regime was nationalistic in the way that Hitler wanted to reform the country due to its humiliation by the Versailles Treaty. Hitler tried to reform Germany in many ways including objecting to the Versailles Treaty and refusing to pay the massive war reparations to the allied countries. Most of the clauses of the Versailles Treaty that Hitler objected to were commonly the ones outlining the size of their army, renouncing all rights and claims of overseas possessions (appendix b), generally Germany couldn’t do anything that would rebuild their economy once again. Education during the Nazi’s reign was extremely censored to serve the purpose of propaganda they replaced all original textbooks, with others that had been carefully screened of all damaging material to the Nazi’s campaign. All teachers that did not comply with this order were either stripped of all teaching duties or a worse punishment such as torture, imprisonment. Children were exposed to extremely biased views that were mostly all blamed on the Jews. School syllabus was strictly outlined, most or all of the subjects had a hidden message such as “Pre- war Germany, the class-War, Profits, Strikes” (appendix c) in relation to the Jews it meant “The Jew at Large!” Also one of the books outlined for schools across the country was “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle), this was Hitler’s autobiography which had extreme racist and biased opinions inside. Younger or developing children would have thought this is the correct way to think and took on board all suggestions made by the book. On the topic of trade workers and trade unions, Hitler gave all the unemployed people jobs at factories and other industrial workshops. The public thought of this as a way to fix the economy, little did they know it was a scheme to gain popularity in the voting poles. Hundreds of workers would line up at the pay window staring at the clock, as the line slowly crawled closer to the window where they would be payed a bag full of notes. According to the figures inscribed on them, the notes amounted to 700,000 in the early days but soon amounted to 18 trillion marks, these figures rose month to month then from week to week and finally day-to-day (appendix d). As soon as they received their pay they would scurry to the closest food market where a que had already formed by the time you got to the front you could probably obtain a pound of...