Hitler

Lisa Hyndman


 * __Hitler Nazi Germany__**
 * Germany Post WWI -**
 * Weimer Republic established:
 * no outstanding politcal leaders
 * Paul von Hindenburg, WWI military hero, elected President
 * uprisings and attacks from left and right
 * unable to change basic stucture of Germany
 * faced economic difficulties
 * runaway inflation with serious social effects
 * Great Depression
 * unemployment increased to 3 million
 * Adolf Hitler -**
 * served as a dispatch runner/soldier in WWI - sense of German nationalism
 * joined German Workers' Party(right-wing extreme nationalist party in Munich) --> National Socialist German Worker's Party(NSDAP or Nazi)
 * Own police force - SA
 * March on Berlin to overthrow Weimer Republic - failure - sentenced to 5 years of prison
 * //Mein Kampf - "//My struggle"
 * autobiographical account of his movement and its underlying ideaology(extreme german nationalism, irulent anti-semetism, and vicious anticommunism - Social Darwinism)
 * //Lebensraum// - "living space", secure authoritarian leadership over the masses through expansion
 * Rise of the Nazi Party -**
 * became largest party within the Reichstag
 * President Hindenburg allowed Hitler to become chancellor and to form a a new government
 * Nazi Germany - totalitarian state**
 * Enabling Acts - Hitler no longer needed the Reichstag of President for legal actions - Hitler became a dictator appoined by the parliamentary body
 * concentration camps established, trade unions were dissolved, all political parties except the Nazis were abolished
 * Jews purged
 * "Germany Awake" - Nazi slogan, Nazis offered a national awakening
 * SA --> SS under Heinrich Himmler, controlled all of the regular and secret police
 * two idealogies: terror(repression and murder) and ideology
 * Nuremburg Laws - stripped Jews of their rights and citizenship, prohibited marraige and sexual intercourse with anyone Jewish, Jewish was considered a race instead of religion
 * //Kristallnact -// night of shattered glass, burned down Jewish synagogues, Jewish businessed were destroyed, and Jews were killed or sent to concentration camps
 * lead to more extreme acts - Jews barred from all public buildings and prohibited from owning, managing, or working in retail stores
 * Women - bearers of children, destined to be wives and mothers