After WW1, the Treaty of Versailles demanded Germany pay nations it had went to war with, reparations. The German government had no way to pay it, other than print more money. That caused hyperinflation, unprecedented unemployment and totally collapsed the economy.
As evil as his government turned out to be in other ways, Hitler was considered by Carnegie, Henry Ford, Joe Kennedy, and American industrialists, as an economic genius. He began an industrial renaissance creating jobs, rebuilt the infrastructure, built the Autobahn (which the U.S. interstate highways were modeled after) and turned the economy from disaster to one of the most successful in the world, in a short period of time.
After WWI, the Germans were oppressed by an unfair treaty so the people were starving. Hitler defied the conditions of the treaty and reclaimed the German speaking countries in eastern Europe.
This made him very popular and the people in his country looked to him as a saviour of the German race.
Bad guys only look bad in the movies so the audience knows they are. They run on platforms of making your life better and providing "social justice". One has to look under the surface to see who they truly are and what their real intentions, even if well-intentioned, are. If they don't, it's because of what they want to believe is stronger than reason. In the case of Hitler, when people are hungry and frightened for their future, they'll sell their soul to the Devil if he says he can make it all stop, and they did.
He was a very charismatic person and a talented motivational speaker, from what I've been told. He used his personality and talents to work his way into power and convince people that his evil intent wasn't actually evil.
he also murdered anyone who opposed him...namely the leaders and high ranking politicians of any political party's that did not share his vision for germany...hence the "night of the long knifes"
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After WW1, the Treaty of Versailles demanded Germany pay nations it had went to war with, reparations. The German government had no way to pay it, other than print more money. That caused hyperinflation, unprecedented unemployment and totally collapsed the economy.
As evil as his government turned out to be in other ways, Hitler was considered by Carnegie, Henry Ford, Joe Kennedy, and American industrialists, as an economic genius. He began an industrial renaissance creating jobs, rebuilt the infrastructure, built the Autobahn (which the U.S. interstate highways were modeled after) and turned the economy from disaster to one of the most successful in the world, in a short period of time.
After WWI, the Germans were oppressed by an unfair treaty so the people were starving. Hitler defied the conditions of the treaty and reclaimed the German speaking countries in eastern Europe.
This made him very popular and the people in his country looked to him as a saviour of the German race.
Bad guys only look bad in the movies so the audience knows they are. They run on platforms of making your life better and providing "social justice". One has to look under the surface to see who they truly are and what their real intentions, even if well-intentioned, are. If they don't, it's because of what they want to believe is stronger than reason. In the case of Hitler, when people are hungry and frightened for their future, they'll sell their soul to the Devil if he says he can make it all stop, and they did.
He was a very charismatic person and a talented motivational speaker, from what I've been told. He used his personality and talents to work his way into power and convince people that his evil intent wasn't actually evil.
That and he had a way of talking to the people. Making everything he said seem like the right thing to do. His speeches were infamous.
A Nation of needy people, who just wanted to work.
he also murdered anyone who opposed him...namely the leaders and high ranking politicians of any political party's that did not share his vision for germany...hence the "night of the long knifes"
He promised the German people they would rule the world.
His intellect and charisma. he was not a dumb and unlikeable man. Thats what made him so influential