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Essay / Totalitarian Government Essay - 1810
A dictatorship, in this case Hitler, and a party (Nazi Party: National Socialist German Workers' Party NSDAP) must control the courts, the media, the police and of course, the government. There is virtually no freedom of choice and the individual who created this totalitarian government has complete control over his people. In any government it controls many different aspects, and these are particularly important to totalitarian governments. First of all, totalitarian governments control the political aspect of their state, in the sense that the leader basically symbolizes the government and is able to unite his people, the government is also controlled only by a single political party and the State is always considered more important than individuals. A second aspect is the social aspect, in which the totalitarian government controls all aspects of daily life, meaning that citizens are denied their basic rights and freedoms, and there is a secret police that uses terror and violence to enforce government policies. Finally, the economic aspect of totalitarian governments essentially represents the fact that they direct the national economy and control businesses, meaning that these businesses and the workforce in general are used to achieve the goals of the State. Hitler's Nazi regime/party represented unification. of all Germans in Germany, which also correlated with the abolition of the Jews. This is demonstrated by the meeting between politicians, military leaders and Hitler's commanders Hermann Goering, Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels in 1938, known as “Jewish Ghettos”. “We have not come together simply to discuss again, but to make decisions, and I implore the relevant agencies to...... middle of paper... even destroyed. That is why Hitler's ideology of National Socialism's main instrument of control was unification under violence, using its SS police (Shooting Squad) and the Gestapo, the secret police led by Hermann Goering, as well as its other police and security organizations. These organizations gained the power and ability to execute people, mainly "enemies", such as communists, Jews, homosexuals, etc., or imprison them in concentration camps. In the concentration camps, Jews were treated very harshly and cruelly. Many people die every day from hunger, fatigue, disease or gunshot wounds. The Jewish writer Primo Levi wrote about the Jewish struggle during the Nazi regime in “Survival of Auschwitz”: “At Auschwitz in 1944, among the old Jewish prisoners 'kleine Nummer', numbering less than 150,000, only a few hundred had survived..”