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Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany

Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany. hitler.ram. I. The Weimar Republic. 1919 - Germans created a democratic government known as the Weimar Republic. I. The Weimar Republic.

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Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany

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  1. Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany hitler.ram

  2. I. The Weimar Republic 1919 - Germans created a democratic government known as the Weimar Republic

  3. I. The Weimar Republic One of the main problems for the Weimar government was the right-wing the claim that the Army had been 'stabbed in the back' by the government The republic was politically weak, criticized by both the left and right for the results of the Treaty of Versailles

  4. I. The Weimar Republic Germany fell behind in reparations payments, and printed huge quantities of paper money, setting off out-of-control inflation

  5. I. The Weimar Republic 1924 - the Dawes Plan reduced payments, France withdrew from the Ruhr, and loans helped the German economy recover

  6. II. Adolf Hitler Hitler was born in Austria in 1889, moved to Germany, and fought with the German army in WWI Little Adolf Corporal Hitler (right) in WWI

  7. II. Adolf Hitler 1919 - Hitler joined the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) party and soon became its leader

  8. II. Adolf Hitler Hitler organized the Nazis into squads of "Storm Troopers" who battled political enemies in the streets Nazi storm troopers block the entrance to a Jewish-owned store in Berlin. "Germans, defend yourselves, buy only at German shops!"

  9. II. Adolf Hitler 1923 - Hitler tried to seize power in Munich and was sent to prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf ("MyStruggle") Scene of the "Beer Hall Putsch"

  10. II. Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf statedNazi goals and ideology: extreme nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism, and the Aryan "master race" WWII Poster: Which Book, Holy Bible or Mein Kampf?

  11. II. Adolf Hitler Germany, with a Fuhrer, must expand to gain Lebensraum - inferior races must bow to Aryan needs

  12. II. Adolf Hitler As unemployment rose during the Great Depression, Nazi membership grew to almost one million Unemployed looking for work, 1930 Unemployed people standing in line in front of an employment exchange in Hanover in 1930

  13. II. Adolf Hitler Communists won seats in the Reichstag and conservatives, fearing communism, elected Hitler chancellor in 1933 January 30, 1933 - Adolph Hitler (shaking President Hindenburg's hand) was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany

  14. II. Adolf Hitler 'They salute with both hands now' On the night of 30 June 1934, Hitler ordered the SS to kill more than 400 SA men in what became known as the “Night of the Long Knives” Hitler suspended civil rights, disbanded political parties, and purged the Nazi party Hitler, Herman Goering, and Joseph Goebbels

  15. III. Hitler's Third Reich The Third Reich used terror, repression, and totalitarian rule - SS troops enforced Hitler’s will and the Gestapo rooted out opposition

  16. III. Hitler's Third Reich The economy improved with public works programs. Hitler violated the Versailles treaty by ending reparations and rearming Germany Germany’s 100,000-man army surrounded by heavily armed neighbors 1933 – Autobahn construction

  17. III. Hitler's Third Reich "The weak must be chiseled away. I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp's steel." "Hitler Youth" were indoctrinated people with Nazis ideology; “Pure-blooded Aryan" women were rewarded for having children "Youth Serves the Führer." League of German Maidens

  18. III. Hitler's Third Reich School courses and textbooks were rewritten to reflect Nazi racial views; Hitler tried to replace religion with his own racial creed

  19. IV. The Campaign Against Jews Begins On 15 September 1935 at the Reich Party Convention in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler announced the “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour” as well as the “Reich Citizenship Law”. The “Nuremberg Laws” were used to deprive the Jewish population of its civil rights and to open all avenues to their further persecution. 1935 - the Nuremberg Laws placed severe restrictions on Jews The "Nuremberg Laws" established a pseudo-scientific basis for racial discrimination

  20. IV. The Campaign Against Jews Begins Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) – Nazi-led mobs attacked Jewish communities all over Germany on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938

  21. IV. The Campaign Against Jews Begins Nazi enemies and Jews were sent to concentration camps; the Nazis began planning the "final solution“ to the Jewish Problem

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