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To What Extent Was The Third Reich A Totalitarian Dictatorship.

To what extent was the Third Reich a Totalitarian Dictatorship?

To be able to answer this question it is important to define what is meant by ‘totalitarian dictatorship'. Totalitarian means a form of government that does not allow rival political parties and demands total obedience from the people and, dictatorship means ruler who has complete power . The Nazi Party did have as its intention the creation of what we would see as a totalitarian dictatorship, but the important question is how far they achieved this goal.

The Third Reich was a totalitarian state in the sense that it was a ‘one party state'. A law was passed making illegal any other political party other than the Nazi Party. All political parties other than the Nazi party were abolished; the Social Democratic Party was outlawed as ‘hostile to the nation and state' and, smaller parties were ‘persuaded' to dissolve themselves. The individual German states also lost their independence. Nazi governors were put......


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