How did Hitler control and brainwash Germany and the Nazi Party?
Other than propaganda, economics, humiliation of the German people contributed the Nazi Party coming into power. Germany was humiliated and its citizens were suffering; the Nazi Party came forward with “solutions” to its problems. In economic hard times, people (in general) may possibly give far too much power to governments. Personally, I think people criticize Germans for giving too much power to the Nazi, but during hard times, people are desperate for solutions and sometime we make irrational choices. In late 1929 the first effects of the worldwide economic depression were felt in Germany. The last government of the Weimar Republic based on a majority in the Reichstag (the German parliament) was not able to cope with the crisis and fell in March 1930. President Paul von Hindenburg appointed a new government led by Heinrich Brüning as chancellor (prime minister). However, Brüning and the Reichstag could not agree on how to resolve the crisis. Hindenburg dissolved the legislature and
