Hitler was a terrible figure in world history. Intelligent, gritty, aggressive, eloquent, charismatic and demagogic.
The boy of the customs clerk, a former street artist, had no background, bare-handed, and in just 20 years, he became chancellor of Germany, and in just a few years, he turned the whole of Europe upside down and turned the world upside down.
If it weren't for the belligerence, not because of indiscriminate killing, and eventually embarked on the evil road and created a great catastrophe in human history, to be honest, Hitler is really the most awesome inspirational figure, and may even enter the "great" ranks. Unfortunately, he eventually became the Chaos Demon King.
To this day, he still has a lot of iron fans in Germany, and some people still miss him very much.
Hitler was not only an iron fist, he was also an extremely talented politician and doer. After he came to power, he launched a big war, but the German people followed him into a collective obsession, first of all, because of Lao Xi's superior talent.
Pictured: Wittgenstein is the left one in the first row, and Hitler is the first on the right in the second row. They are middle school classmates
In January 1933, Hitler came to power in the face of a messy Germany, and the country's economy came to a near standstill. At that time, Germany, with a population of 66 million, had 600 unemployed, 4 million were temporary workers, and half of the country was struggling with hunger. The Germans desperately needed a savior.
And Hitler showed up at the right time, and really did an encouraging job. On his third day as prime minister, he broadcast publicly to save the peasants and workers at the bottom. He did what he said, and after only 5 years, Germany was almost completely renewed.
In Germany in 1938, according to available research data, national production increased by 102%, and the unemployment rate was only 1.3%, which was already lower than that of the United States at the same time, far more than britain. The famous Nazi general Guderian, in his later memoirs" "Memories of a Soldier", was still complacent, saying that The Greeks were really cattle, and not long after taking office, "the phenomenon of unemployment disappeared."
In Germany in 1938, Hitler's promise to his citizens was that "every worker will have a car." This is a luxury that we cannot do now. Hitler's ability at that time was something that many people looked up to. It is not the truth that he is now being belittled.
At the same time, Hitler vigorously promoted social welfare, social insurance, paid leave, nursing homes and hotels, etc., and appointed only people.
This allowed the lower classes, who were the majority of the German population at the time, to enjoy almost unprecedented glory and to feel the hope that Germany could rise again from the humiliation of the First World War. It was these people, the people at the bottom, the nationalists, the opportunists, and even the capable bureaucrats, who later became the main force of Hitler's die-hard fans. Hitler had a plan for buying people's hearts.
Pictured: Hitler's early watercolors
There is a famous saying in his autobiography", "By the police, machine guns and rubber sticks, you can't maintain your rule for a long time", and when I first read this book, I really couldn't believe that such a wise, discerning, and responsible statement came from the mouth of this executioner.
He was even a role model in his personal life. For the official incorruptibility, private life checkpoint, is a vegetarian, does not drink alcohol or smoke, is dedicated to love, both kills people like hemp, but also lives like a Puritan. Even his rival Churchill said that, on a personal note, "his way of life was pure and noble, and he was admirable." Not to mention his versatility, he himself wanted to become an artist, with an in-depth study of history, religious doctrine, and architecture.
It can be said that Hitler, in the years before he came to power, in addition to having already exposed his authoritarian tendencies, was indeed a good politician. At that time, the German people, facing such politicians, compared with the incompetence and greed of the meat eaters of the past, really had a spontaneous worship.
The German populace, who had just climbed from the humiliating trench of World War I, was pervasive with a fervorous nationalist sentiment, desperate for revenge or a disgrace.
Hitler, the former artist's fanaticism and personal ambition, took full advantage of this social mood. The drastic improvement in the lives of the people, coupled with the rolling brainwashing of the media at that time, and the elimination of other different voices, the German people in the enclosed space, for Hitler, have actually become more and more immersed in the cult of personality unconsciously.
After the war, many people in the world, for the German people so collectively hoarse, said that they could not understand, in fact, what is difficult to understand! Any country that coincides with such a period of time, under such a closed source blockade, and which happens to be exploited by an ambitious and indeed capable politician, can actually be Nazi Germany. No matter how difficult it is to understand, it is even clearer to think of the "white-robed country".
Hitler and his Nazi state were able to make the majority of the people bow down, and they also used unprecedented brainwashing to control the spirits and minds of these people. In the words of their lame minister, Goebbels, "Propaganda has only one goal, which is to conquer the masses, and all means of serving this goal are good."
The use of the national sentiments of the German populace by the Nazi top brass was rampant and extremely successful. For example, at that time, Germany invaded everywhere, but in the minds of the German people, Germany was only "defending itself" and was the party of justice. One day in October 1940, an American in Germany went to the hospital for a cold, and she clearly remembered that the beautiful nurse at that time asked her with a confused face:
"Why do the hateful Britons want to bully us"? What she may not know is that not long ago, London, England, was bombed by Germany for 76 days and nights, killing more than 60,000 innocent people.
The brainwashing techniques of Nazi Germany were world-famous, and the later Frankfurt School studied it repeatedly, thinking that it was a model case of journalism and communication.
Of course, it is quite scary to think that Nazi Germany made this set of things in the past, and then it will be infiltrated into our current business logic. So, some joke that Hitler was the grandfather of all contemporary successful businessmen.
The main points of Hitler and his henchmen in this trick are actually not complicated to say, and even the MLM community has the same tricks. A simple sentence is: manipulate public opinion, close the source of information, and repeat those words in your ear. In this way, "a lie told ten thousand times becomes the truth."
They cut off other sources of information, single-handedly ignored Nazi speech, and played the German people like monkeys. They abolish foreign newspapers, interfere with foreign broadcasts with technology, call outside criticism "malicious attacks," and regard "listening to enemy stations" as serious criminal offenses.
They equipped all public places with radios, broadcast programs on a rolling basis during working hours, and let everyone listen to the radio all the time, and dredged the "Nazi Party" doctrine. They cultivate "junior teams" and "junior leagues"; they supervise the ideological education and training of the people, and so on ~ this kind of brainwashing, which accumulates over time, is very terrible. The whole nation will not be reasonable, nor will it be able to distinguish between right and wrong.
For example, the famous American journalist Shayley mentioned in her diary in February 1940 that a German pilot was captured by the British, and the British Radio broadcast the list of prisoners of war, and 8 acquaintances secretly listened to it and told his mother, and his mother not only did not thank him, but in turn denounced these people as "listening to the enemy station", and they were all arrested.
For another example, in Germany at that time, in restaurants or small hotels, some skeptical Germans did not dare to communicate the truth, and they could be accused of the slightest doubt about the Nazis.
After 1940, Germany's legal framework was largely abolished. In the society at that time, the popular saying was: "The Fuehrer is always right, and the will of the Fuehrer is the law." Such a country, not crazy, not crazy, not confused, is a strange thing!
Later Hitler and his party members shouted the slogan of virtue for the people, but in fact, the people who had long been divided in their hearts regarded the people as grass and mustard, but they were only confused. It's not that I'm fooling around, Goebbels kept a diary, and you flip through it in your spare time to see how he "honestly" recorded his own "two-sided needle" face.
In a recollection, a certain hitler confidant said such a thing: One day in February 1943, Hitler gave a speech at the Berlin Gymnasium, and what he said was impassioned, as if out of his heart, and the thousands of people below who advocated it were also tearful, clapping like thunder, and lasting for a long time.
However, just after leaving the podium, Hitler whispered to this confidant, "What a bunch of idiots!" He also seemed to say to himself, "If I ask these guys if they are willing to jump off the roof of the Columbus Building, they will surely shout 'yes'!" ”