Adolf Hitler created many policies during his rule in 1933-1945, which enabled him to be successful as a leader as he achieved his aims. He was able to create methods which enabled him to achieve his aims in several different ways; the aims included regaining military power, creating a pure Aryan race, and making alliances with other countries.
The most important event that aided to Hitler’s success as a rule was creating, and allowing the Enabling Law to pass. The Enabling Law would allow the government to introduce laws without the approval of the Reichstag for the next four years. Therefore, they were allowed to ignore the constitution and sign agreements with foreign countries without having to go through a long process. The only thing that needed to be done was have the Chancellor sign the paper approving it. In order to get the Enabling Law to pass, Hitler had to use intimidation, in a sense. He ordered troops to surround the Kroll Opera house, which is the location where the people were voting on the bill. The troops chanted things that persuaded the people to vote in favor of the enabling law, as they said “we want the bill, or fire and murder.” In the end, the only people who didn’t vote in favor of the Enabling Bill were the Social Democrats. All together, the total number of votes was 441 that were in favor of the Enabling Law, and 94 votes which were against the Enabling Law (which were all social democrats.) Now that the Enabling Law was passed, Hitler was able to be the complete dictator for the next four years, and he no longer needed the support of anyone else. Although at first the ideas of the Nazis were completely abandoned, now everyone had to listen to their laws because they were in total power. Hitler was now able to make alliances with other countries, and sign certain agreements. The agreements he signed which proved successful to his rule were the non-aggression pact with Poland, the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, the Munich agreement, and the Rome-Berlin axis treaty. All of these pacts were made possible by the Enabling Law, which was one huge success for Hitler’s rule in power.
Another one of Hitler’s aims which he was successful in achieving was to regain military power. He was successful in achieving this aim by using mainly propaganda. He developed the Hitler Youth in 1934, which was a form of propaganda to ensure Hitler’s uprising. There were 8 million young Germans that belonged to the Hitler Youth Movement, which created an indoctrination of the youth. These youth followed Hitler, and wanted to be just like him when they grew up. Adolf Hitler schools were also developed in 1937, which encouraged the boys to be strong and fight. The boys who did best in their “performance books” were sent to the Adolf Hitler schools, and they moved up in the next level to the castle schools. By doing this, the boys are rewarded in a sense, because everyone was brainwashed to want to be strong and go off and fight. The end result of this is that the future of Germany would all be extremely strong and courageous, which enabled them to have a strong military because these boys had been trained that way for their entire life. Therefore, this use of propaganda was a strength of Hitler’s rule, because it enabled the army to be strengthened. Also, with consideration to this aim of developing a stronger military power, the air force was established. This obviously caused the army to grow, while it also increased the amount of jobs available to people, because unemployment rates decreased. This made people happy, which can be interpreted as yet another success of Hitler.
The most common aim of Hitler was to achieve a pure Aryan race. He made several attempts at doing this, and in many ways he was successful. One method of his to achieve this aim was that women were only allowed to have children. He had the government set up homes for unmarried mothers, which were like brothels. Pure Aryan men would goto these brothels, and help the women to create pure Aryan babies. This was successful, because the population of pure Aryans was increasing rapidly as a result of these brothel-like homes. Also, another method that Hitler used which was successful was creating concentration camps and killing anyone who wasn’t considered to be purely Aryan. Although this can be seen as an evil and horrible thing to do, it still caused Hitler to be successful, because he was able to achieve his aim of a pure Aryan race even further.
For the most part, every ruler has a failure which leads to their downfall. In the case of Hitler, this failure was when Hitler decided to wage war on America. This was probably the stupidest thing that he could have done, because America was so wealthy. Therefore, because of their wealth, they were able to send extreme military forces to attack Germany, while also helping their own allies, Britain and France, to continue waging war against Germany. Because of this, Germany completely lost WWII.
By evaluating the successes and failures of Hitler’s rule, it becomes obvious that Hitler was a pretty successful ruler. Although he did have some downfalls, this does not rule out the fact that he was so successful in achieving many aims. Therefore, the end result is that Hitler was a very successful ruler, as proven by the aims he achieved.
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