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NAZI GERMANY: The Rise of Hitler
- The Early Years
- Hitler used to be a soldier after being rejected
from top art school
- Asked to be a spy for political parties
- Joined DAP in 1919 - only 40 members
- Leader: Anton Drexler
- Later pushed aside by Hitler
- February 1920 - 25 Point
Programme
- Munich Putsch
- Hitler's violent attempt to gain power illegally
- Hitler & 300 SA disrupted
meeting at local beer hall
- Kahr & Lassow
- Backed out of rebellion at last minute
- SA took contol over army HQ and
offices of local newspapers
- Gain publicity locally
- Kahr called army reinforcements
when Hitler went to Munich
- 16 Nazis killed
- Hitler flees but is captured 2 days later. Prison for 9months
- Mein Kampf
- Outlines his beliefs and his future ideas
for a new Germany
- Gain support of the public by different
means - not violently
- Nazi Support
- Businessmen and
agricultural workers
- Hitler wanted to control big
businesses but not take them away
- This got businessmen to side with him
rather than communsits
- Hitler wanted to run economy so agriculture
and industry would flourish
- A.workers would side with him over communists
- Nationalists/Soldiers
- Hitler wanted to break way from the terms
of the ToV so Germany could become
strong again
- Supportive of Hitler as he would be
able to restore Germany's great name
- Restriction of army to 100,000 - soldiers would get
their jobs back if Hitler was able to break free from this
ToV policy
- Purifying Germany -
Aryan race
- Religious/Old Fashioned family
- Hitler wanted to return Christian morality and
traditional roles among the men/women in the
home
- Hitler's wealthy ties
- Hitler be friended Germany's most
wealthiest businessman who had similar
hatred for communism
- Able to support Nazi party's
finances and fun propaganda
- Lean years
- Inflation had eased and
employment had increased
- Stresemann was regaining status for
Germany in the world
- Reputation of Hindenburg got more people to
support the Weimar Repubic
- Voters supported moderate parties due to the
stabilization of Germany. Extreme parties like Nazis and
Communists lost ground
- Make way for the Nazis
- Wall Street Crash
- USA recall their loans leaving Germany
in a depression (failure of Dawes Plan)
- Unemployment increased and public showed unrest