Unit: Between the Wars Topic: The Rise of Nazi Germany

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Unit Between the WarsTopic The Rise of Nazi
Germany
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• In November 1923, a German army veteran and
  leader of an extremist party, Adolf Hitler, tried
  to follow Mussolinis example. His brown-shirted
  thugs burst into a beer hall in Munich, where a
  political meeting was set to start. The
  Nationalist Socialist revolution has begun! he
  shouted.
• The coup failed, and Hitler was soon behind bars.
  But Hitler was a power that could not be ignored
  forever. Within a decade, he made a new bid for
  power, and succeeded. Hitlers rise to power
  raises disturbing questions that we still debate
  today.

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1. The Weimar Republic Stinks

1. The new democratic government, the Weimar
   Republic, was weak.
2. Inflation caused major economic problems Germany
   fell behind in reparation payments.

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1. Germans blamed the Weimar Republic for
   Versailles, and longed for another strong leader
   like Bismarck.

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Inflation and Depression
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2. Here Comes Hitler!

1. Adolf Hitler promised to provide jobs and rebuild
   German pride.
2. He believed the Germans were a superior race who
   would build a new empire, the Third Reich.

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1. In 1920, he headed the National Socialist German
   Workers, or Nazi, party Nazi storm troopers
   fought political enemies.

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• In 1923, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
  in prison it would later become the basic book
  of Nazi goals and ideology. It reflected Hitlers
  obsessions extreme nationalism, racism, and
  antisemitism. Germans, he said, belonged to a
  superior master race of Aryans, whose greatest
  enemies were the Jews.

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1. Although they despised him, Weimar Republic
   leaders felt they could control Hitler and helped
   him to become chancellor in 1933.

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1. Within a year, Hitler was dictator of Germany.
   
   
   
   
   

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Hitler Comes to Power
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3. Hitlers Third Reich

1. Hitler ended civil rights, silenced his enemies
   with force, and put businesses under government
   control.

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1. He also repudiated the Treaty of Versailles,
   rearming Germany, rebuilding its military, and
   stopping reparation payments.

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• Hitler, believing Jews to be the cause of
  Germanys problems, instituted anti-Semitic
  policies.

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1. The Nuremburg Laws of 1935 took away German
   citizenship and rights of Jews, and allowed the
   sale of their property.

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The Dark Side of Nazi Rule