Short Notes on Effect of Nazism on Germany

(i) Germany was turned into a police state. One party one man dictatorship was established. Opposition parties and trade unions were disbanded. Freedom of speech and expression was severely curtailed. Newspapers were suppressed and government controlled all radio stations.

(ii) Liberals, socialists and communists were either exiled or thrown into prisons.

(iii) Of all, Jews were the worst treated. They were deprived of their rights, publicly humiliated, forced to live in ghettos and finally exterminated.

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(iv) Hitler despite the treaty of Versailles began to rearm and in 1936 marched into the Rhineland. Lack of action on the part of the western powers emboldened Hitler and set Germany on the path of war. This finally engulfed the world in World War II.