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From the Explaining History series, this is a new ebook for students of Germany history designed to dispel the six most pervasive myths about the Third Reich and help students get to grips with the most common problems. Also check out the link for additional bonus material and a free six part modern history course.

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Histoire

World War II

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Publié par	Andrews UK
Date de parution	07 décembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783331116
Langue	English

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EXPLAINING NAZI GERMANY
Six Answers To A Level/SAT2 Nazi Germany Questions

by
Nick Shepley

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Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
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Why Was Hitler’s Style Of Government Chaotic?
Because Hitler rarely wrote anything down and rarely signed any official paperwork, finding evidence about Hitler’s beliefs about his own style of government is quite a challenge for historians.
The lack of detail in itself is telling, Hitler hated bureaucrats and paperwork, believing that most matters could be dealt with informally, and an inner circle of favourites who he felt he could rely on and trust were feted by the Fuehrer as a result.
Hitler’s love of informality saw a virtual court establish itself at Berchtesgardten in Bavaria, his mountain top residence and retreat. He disliked going to Berlin, believing that it was a corrupted and morally bankrupt city, that the 20’s and 30’s under the Weimar Government had seen a flowering of vice, prostitution, sexual permissiveness and liberal thought, designed to corrupt and weaken the German people.
So accessing the Fuehrer was often difficult, and he seems to have preferred it that way, he constantly feared assassination attempts, and believed that the best way to keep his lieutenants pliable and eager to please was to keep them at arms length.
When senior Nazis did want to communicate with Hitler they had to go through his secretary, Heinz Heinrich Lammers, who worked as a barrier between Hitler and the world. Lammers would take policy initiatives from other Nazis to Hitler and normally communicate the idea verbally to him, with much of the detail being lost in translation.
Hitler would often give a verbal reply, sometimes even a grunt of approval, and Lammers would then interpret what it was exactly the Fuehrer wanted to be done. He would then repeat this message back to the Nazi in question. This often tortuous process, allied with the fact that Hitler’s favourites, for example Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Herman Goering and Robert Ley were all given powerful but unofficial positions. They created informal parallel organisations that competed with established government ministries, often with farcical and sometimes disastrous results.
Hitler introduced into the German system of government (previously the most efficient and well ordered in the world) an enormous degree of chaos, rivalry and maladministration, and it was an environment in which the top Nazis and their associates were able to enrich themselves enormously.
Hitler presented a view of the world where he as the defender of the German people was to be the scourge of greed and corruption, the source of which he maintained was the previous liberal Weimar Government and the Jews.
Without a doubt one of the most corrupt and embezzling regimes in the 20 th Century was born in January 1933, and it was allowed to exist in no small part by Hitler and his informal, chaotic style of government.

Was Hitler A Strong Or Weak Dictator?
It is easy for students of Nazi Germany who have studied it at GCSE level to form an opinion of Hitler’s government that conforms to a simplistic stereotype.
The picture of the regime that emerges is one of Hitler as a monolithic figure, involved in all areas of policy, making sure his will is imposed on all aspects of life in Nazi Germany. It is a picture that suggests that Hitler’s government operated with ruthless efficiency, and that each act of state repression was carefully and methodically planned.
The last three decades of research now suggests that this is an overly simplistic view, and one of the key debates you are likely as AS or A2 students to become involved in is the intentionalist/functionalist argument.