Essay On Life In Nazi Germany

Life in Nazi Germany was bad for the people in Germany. Germany was slowly slipping into bankruptcies and unemployment rates were high. Germany were also limited as to what they could do because the treaty of Versailles meant that they had to limit the size of their army and that they had land taken away from them. On top of all that, Germany had to pay repatriations for the damage done in the war. This Essay will elaborate on the following points. How Hitler and the Nazi party created a totalitarian state, the positives of Nazi Germany on the people of Germany, and last of all, the Negatives of Nazi Germany on the people of Germany.

Life in Nazi Germany was bad for the people in Germany at that time. One reason for this was because Hitler, together with the Nazi party, were creating a totalitarian
The persecution of minorities and of the Jews meant that people could be put in concentration camps. Furthermore, Nazi Germany took away people’s personal freedoms, which meant people did not have control of expression and/ or communication meaning they could only speak good things about the Nazi’s and non-Nazi music and things like that were banned from people in Nazi Germany. They even had the simplest rights taken away from them such as the right to read foreign newspapers, since the foreign newspapers never said anything good about Nazi Germany. Hitler’s Dictatorship and the Third Reich, 1933-45, explains that ‘Those who were brave enough to challenge the system – often late at night – and questioning under torture. Punishments included internment in a concentration camp or execution’. Hitler’s Dictatorship and the Third Reich, 1933-45, also states that in the year of 1939, approximately 21,400 people were being held in concentration camps’. These people include people who were against Nazi ideas, people who tried to politically oppose Hitler and also