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Questions

How did Germans react when Hitler was killing Nazis?

Where did Hitler come up with the name "storm troopers"?

How did other countries immediately react to the rise of the Nazis?

Summary:

The rise of Hitler and the Nazis was quick and nobody really asked any questions. Germans were excited to have a powerful leader that promised so many great things. They eagerly followed him and his beliefs, even when it came to killing other innocent people.

Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany

Nazi Youth, Purging German Culture

Hitlers Manifesto

The Third Reich Controls Germany, Germany Becomes a Totalitarian State

Runaway Inflation, Recovery & Collapse, Weimar Culture

  • Young Germans were urged to destroy their enemies with no mercy
  • "Hitler Youth" took pledges to their cause and did physical training in prep for war
  • School courses and textbooks were changed to reflect Nazi views
  • Nazi's denounced modern art and Jazz music
  • Turned completley to old German ways and closed Catholic schools
  • While in prison for treason, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
  • Later became the basics of Nazi goals and ideology
  • Reflected his obsessions: extreme nationalism, racism, and anti-Semitism
  • Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in WW1 and claimed they were a seperate race
  • Hitler claimed Germany must gain Lebensraum (living space) and inferior races must bow to their needs
  • Hitler appealed to nationalism
  • created the third Reich "Germans would dominate Europe for a thousand Years"
  • Began building highways, housing, replanting forests, and creating weapons
  • Hitler organized brutal but efficient totalitarian rule
  • his secret police (Gestapo) rooted out and eliminated any opposition
  • German workers protested France occupying Ruhr Valley
  • Though not working, the government continued to pay them, printing large amounts of cash and leading to inflation and a worthless dollar value
  • Western Powers attempted to help and Germany prospered
  • Soon the Great Depression hit and Germans turned to Adolf Hitler to restore their greatness
  • Though there were economic and political issues, the culture still prospered with dadist art and bauheus architecture

Hitler comes to Power

Weimar Republic's Rise & Fall & Political Struggles

Authoritarian Rule in Eastern Europe, Ethnic Conflict, Democracy Retreats

Campaign Against the Jews Begins, Night of Broken Glass

The Nazi Party's Rise to Power

  • 1919 a dozen countries were formed from the old Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and German Empires
  • They were all small and weak and looked to agriculture and capital to develop industry
  • Old rivalries created tension between ethnic groups everywhere
  • tensions and economic problems created instability
  • many places let fascist rulers gain power
  • Germany was on the brink of chaos
  • 1919 Constitution of Weimar created Weimar Republic

-Parliamentary system with Chancellor

-Women can vote

-Included a bill of rights

  • Germany was politically weak due to too many opposing parties and wanting different types of leaders
  • Many Germans blamed their political and economic issues on German Jews
  • As unemployment due to the Great Depression rose, Nazi membership hit almost a million
  • He promised to end reparations, create jobs, and defy the treaty of Versailles
  • With conservative support in 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor legally
  • Within a year he became a dictator
  • He and his supporters suspended civil rights, destroyed political parties, and executed Nazis he felt were disloyal
  • Germans felt superior to ethnic groups such as Jews, Serbs, Poles, etc.
  • Hitler developed anti-Semitism (prejudice against Jews)
  • He fought for Germany in WW1
  • Later joined a group of right wing extremists
  • Within a year he was the leader of the Nazi's and his storm troopers were fighting in the streets
  • Hitler set out to drive all Jews from Germany
  • Passed the Nuremberg laws on Jews

-cant marry non-Jews

-cant attend/teach at German schools/Universities

-cant practice laws or medicine

-cant publish books

  • Hitler used an incident where a Jewish boy wounded an officer to wage war on all Jews
  • "the night of broken glass" took place November 9th and 10th 1938
  • Nazi mobs attacked Jewish communities and were making plans for the extermination of all Jews
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