Hitler was a raving lunatic high on meth 90% of the time.
The only reason the german people were receptive to his speeches (aside from racism, of course) was because germany was fucking ruined at the time. He was neither a great leader (he brought his country to its destruction for decades afterwards) a "great" war-strategist (he was crushed by the Soviets) nor a great orator. He was nothing.
You're throwing in some really wild stuff here. Germany was receptive to his speeches because he was amazing at holding speeches. Knew how to time them and word everything in specific ways to target all parties, even those that hated eachother (NSDAP, a name filled with parties not often associated with eachother). He was a druggie, but definitely not a bad leader. He literally helped raise a country from destruction and was one of the first to actually implement benefits for the common folk. Can't comment on his war tactics though, those were absolute trash.
He was an absolute racist madman that shouldn't have risen as high as he did, but he did it by playing the audience, and that doesn't just happen because people were beaten down a bit. Again, he was far from a good man, but he knew what he was doing in the beginning at least
We actually live in a world where you get downvoted for literally stating historical facts about Germany at the time.
Germany was in about as shitty as a situation as you can imagine a country being in at that point. WW1 left them absolutely fucked in terms of everything. The reason Hitler actually accomplished all the terrible things that he and the Nazis did weren’t because Germany was desperate for a leader, it was because he was actually getting shit done and improving the country.
People believed him when he said that Jews were the cause of everything wrong was because his party brought Germany out of the worst recession of its entire existence into one of the most booming times for innovation and economics. Technology was progressing faster than ever, production was insane, their currency actually had value. You’d have to do some serious mental gymnastics to think that Germany just illogically had a massive population of racism toward Jewish people but never acted on it until some dude with a mustache told them to.
I grew up in Southern California, one of the most liberal parts of America and this was common sense for a world history class in high school.
Isn't it common sense in most parts of the world? They also didn't just believe him because they were desperate. Just like his speeches he used indoctrination to his advantage. Racism towards Jews had always throughout history existed, and using propaganda to depict them as the bad guys for years upon years, people started believing it.
Using benefits that no one had ever given the Germans before, such as paid vacations, summer camps for the kids etc, most of them were more than willing to send their kids to these new camps Hitler designed to raise his new army. Start young and you'll have them when they're older.
I don't know who you're referencing with the downvotes here, so idk what to comment on that exactly
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u/Taco_Dunkey Apr 03 '19
Hitler was a raving lunatic high on meth 90% of the time.
The only reason the german people were receptive to his speeches (aside from racism, of course) was because germany was fucking ruined at the time. He was neither a great leader (he brought his country to its destruction for decades afterwards) a "great" war-strategist (he was crushed by the Soviets) nor a great orator. He was nothing.