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The National Socialist Party came to power through a series of swift, ruthless and devastating actions which firmly established Germany as a fascist state. The centralisation of power in Germany, known as 'co-ordination' (Gleichschaltung), was initiated on the day of the election and was carried out with such clinical efficiency, that the German state was completely transformed within a matter of months. Hitler's Gleichschaltung was extremely successful in altering the cultural and economic landscape of …

…employment, the motivation of the working class, and religion. Nazi propaganda went further than this in its influence on the German way of life, as the press, industry, art and culture, and all forms of entertainment were transformed into mere puppets of the Nazi regime. The gradual erosion of individualism and devotion to The Third Reich amongst German people could not have been achieved without the changes implemented in these fundamental aspects of daily life.