Abstract
Lasting from 1933 to 1945, the Third Reich governed not only Germany but vast sections of continental Europe. One of its principal tools in administering its “1,000-year Reich,” was the application of terror and fear to create a climate of paranoia, and obedience to the Nazi Party. To do this, the Party did everything that it could to take over national life and discourse, other its enemies, and maintain fear through an arbitrary and often changing system of enforcement. This essay utilizes a mix of sources from first person accounts to historical fiction to analyze the systems and applications of fear as a tool of Nazi governance.
First Page
50
Last Page
59
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Mahlkuch, Jacob R.
(2024)
"Angst Uber Alles: The Role of Fear in Nazi German Governance,"
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History: Vol. 14:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
DOI: 10.20429/aujh.2024.140104
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/aujh/vol14/iss1/4