WHAT SORT OF LEADER WAS HITLER?

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WHAT SORT OF LEADER WAS HITLER?

FUHRER PRINCIPLE - FUHRER CAN'T BE WRONG - MUST BE OBEYED

THIRD REICH - 'DUAL STATE' - RIVAL HIERACHIES - RELATION BACK TO OLD IN ORDER NOT TO SCARE 

AFTER ENABLING ACT NO NEED FOR REICHSTAG - NO REICHSTAG MEETINGS - OTHER PARITES STILL HAD IDEAS -

 APRIL 1933 CIVIL SERVICE JEW PURGED - 2% OF C.SERVICE (1.5M) COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS -

INFLIATRATION OF N.IDEAS THROUGH APPOINTING NAZI LEADERS OF STATES - SAID NAZIS NOT A REVOLUTION (PEOPLE HAPPY) 

JULY 1933 - 'THE PARTY HAD NOW BECOME THE STATE'

1938 - UNEASY COEXISTENCE BETWEEN NAZI & STATE.

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FUHRER POWER

POWER GIVEN TO FUHRER - EXECTEUR OF COMMON WILL - POWER COMPREHENSIVE AND TOTAL - UNITES ALL SPHERES OF NATIONAL LIFE

COULD NOT MASK BASIC PROBLEMS - GOVT AND LAW OF N.GERMANY HAPHAZARD - NO WAY HITLER COULD CONTROL ALL ASPECTS 

 HITLER DEPENDENT ON SUBORDINATES 

 HITLERS PERSONALITY & ATTITUDE TO GOVT. MIXED - NOT CONDUCIVE TO STRONG & EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP 

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HITLER'S CHARACTER

APPEARED CHARASMATIC & DYNAMIC LEADER - MAGNETIC COMMAND OF AUDIENCE ALLOWED MASS SUGGESTION - PORTRAYED AS ORDINARY - IMAGE PERPEUTATED BY PROPAGANDA

NORMALLY APPEARED 2PM - DISLIKED DOCUMENT STUDY - MADE DESICIONS WITHOUT SEEING RELEVANT FILES - SELECTIVE HEARING - REFUSED TO BE INFORMED - LAZY - UNUSUAL SLEEPING HOURS - GOT OLDER BECAME NEUROTIC - MOODY - NOT WEEL EDUCATED - NO GOVT EXPERIENCE - NO REAL WORKING ROUTINE - BELIEVED WILLPOWER SOLUTION

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WHAT WAS THE POLICE STATE?

1925 - ** FORMED - 120 MEN - LOOK AFTER HITLER - CARRIED OUT 'SPECIAL TASKS' - DOMIANTED BY NAZI IDEALS & BLIND IDEALS

1929 - 300 MEN - HIMMLER INCHARGE- 'MORE SINISTER THAN HITLER HIMSELF' - HIMMLERS PERSONALITY HELPED ** DEVELOP

** MOST EXTREME NAZI SUPPORTERS

EVERY ** SOLIDER GOT LAND

WANTED TO BE JESIUT ORDER - TOTAL DEDICATION TO HITLER

CREATE A RADICAL ELITE

1931 - DEC - ** MARRIAGE ORDER WIVES SHOULD BE RACIALLY PURE (GERMAN)   

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