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Did the Nazis establish tot control over Germany?

David McGill debates to what extent the Nazi government established total control over Germany

David McGill debates to what extent the Nazi government established total control over Germany

Source A The SA and SS parade before Hitler at the 1935 Nuremberg rally

YES

The Nazi regime that governed Germany between 1933 and 1945 aimed to create a genuinely totalitarian state. Hitler wanted Germans to be controlled by the state from the ‘cradle to the grave’. The Nazi regime created a range of organisations that Germans were expected to participate in from childhood. The annual Nuremberg rallies were the most obvious and visible expressionof this. The main aim of the regime was to create a racial state where only those deemed fit to be members of the German Reich were allowed to survive.

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