Download Hitler in Vienna 1908-1914

• Title = Fascism
• What do you
think are the
most important
characteristics
of Fascism?
• Don’t use your
notes!!!!
• Chronicle Adolf
Hitler’s story and
his rise to power
• Analyze the
problems that
existed in
Germany that
allowed Hitler to
rise to power
• After Kaiser
Wilhelm II flees (to
Holland) & the 2nd
Reich falls,
Germany goes back
to…
– 1918 = Weimar
Republic
–  elected President
in 1925
• Political?
– Democratic Gov is
weak and split!
• Conservatives vs
Socialists
– What about
Hindenberg?
• Social?
– Anger in
Germany…why?
– Scapegoats?
• an increase in the
amount of money
that is being
circulated in a
country or
marketplace
• It happens when
more bills/notes are
being printed by the
treasury of a country.
• Germany needs to pay a
lot of $$$....why?
• Weimar Republic’s
Solution = print out more
and more money…
– 1914
• $1 = 4.2 marks
– November 1, 1923
• $1 = 130 billion marks
– November 30, 1923
• $1 = 4.2 trillion marks
• Mr. B in
Germany…
before the
inflation…
– I earned $50K a
year
– I have $20K
saved in a bank
savings account
• What will happen
to me and many
people like me in
Germany?
• $$ Stacks = 
• Who is
blamed!?!?
• Inflation
problem is
eventually
fixed…but what
damage is
done?
• Unemployment gets VERY HIGH
– 1932 (worst year) = 40%
• Production only at 50%
• Feelings in Society?
– No faith in…
• Where do people look for solution?
– Youth join gangs
– Door is open for who?
• Is 1932 a big year?
• 1889-1945
• Abusive Father, Alois
– Dies in 1903 (AH is 14)
• Loved his mother
Klara deeply
• Inferiority complex
– Partly Jewish? 
• Flunked Secondary
School
• 1905-1907, Hitler
frequently visits
Vienna
• Klara dies from
breast cancer in 1907
• Hitler = Vienna drifter
from 1908-1913
– Age 19-24
– “In this period, there
took shape within me
a world picture and a
philosophy which
became the granite
foundation of all my
acts.”
– But how? 
• Hitler preferred
landscapes and
architectural
paintings and
drawings
• Rejected twice
from Academy of
Fine Arts Vienna
from 1907-1908
• Psychology
behind the art?
• What if???
• Catholic monk, German
Nationalist, Austrian Mayor,
Composer Richard Wagner
• Ideas he picked up
1. Racism…especially AntiSemitism that went beyond
religion...
2. Extreme German nationalism.
Germans should all unite in one
state. How to use propaganda
and terror to build nationalism.
3. German Aryan Race should
rule the world
4. Struggle and the need to
dominate
• Hitler’s thoughts on the
arrival of the war?
–Loved War
• Wounded in WWI as
dispatch runner
–Won Iron Cross
• Effects of surviving
WWI?
–Invincible
• Impact on Hitler?
–Bitter at German
loss in 1919
–Who does he
blame?
• Joins National
Socialist German
Workers’ Party
–  Most important
words?
– AKA Nazi Party
• Party grows in
power with Hitler as
leader
• AKA
– Brownshirts
– SA
– Stormtroopers
• Paramilitary
Group
– Like a
police
force
• Attacked
Socialists,
Commies
and Jews
• 
• Helped Hitler
rise to power
in the late
20s and early
30s
• Nov 8, 1923
• Goal?
– Overthrow the Weimar
Republic
• Outcome 
– March on Munich fails…
– Hitler given 5 year
prison sentence for
High Treason
• gets off easy 
• Looks good in his
defense…
• In jail, AH writes…
• “My Struggle”
• Writes in prison
about his goals
and beliefs
• Hitler is a
“changed” man
• Same ideas he
adopted in Vienna
– Racism…AntiSemitism
– Extreme nationalism
–Unite Germans
– Aryan Race
– Struggle for
domination
• Blonde Hair – Blue Eyes
• Master Race of Germans that
should rule Europe
• Eugenics – study or belief of
improving genetics of humans
by encouraging the
reproduction of certain genetic
traits and discouraging negative
traits
• Who has negative traits?
– Non-Aryans
– Jews = the enemy of Aryans
• Totally different race!!!
– Slavs…(ha)
• Reunite German People…
• Aryans will defeat inferior
races…
• Expand Germans’
Lebensraum…
• Germany would be led by
strong leader…
– Fuhrer
• Hitler would start a 1000Year Reich
– Would take 1000 years to
accomplish his goal
• Where
are the
German
People?
• What will
AH have
to do?
• Hitler takes over party
again
• Nazi Party status =
– Germany’s economy is
prospering
– Good times for
Germany = Bad times
for Extremism
• How will the Nazi’s get
power this time? 
– Which class of people?
• Why is the Depression
of 1929 = 
– Think horseshoe
• Nazi Party rebuilds…
1928-1932…how?
– Lots of men under 30
do the dirty work…(?)
• SA
• Recruiting and
campaigning…
• Party tries to win seats
in Reichstag
(Parliament)
Date
% of
Background
Reichstag
May
1924
6.5
Hitler in Prison
Dec
1924
3.0
Hitler out of Prison
2.6
Hitler running the Nazis for
years now
18.3
Germany’s Depression starts!!
July
1932
37.4
Hitler comes in 2nd place for
President to Hindenburg
Nov
1932
33.1
No confidence vote by Nazis
called months earlier
March
1933
43.9
May
1928
Sept
1930
Status of the Nazis?
• What happened to
Senator Palpatine
when the Senate
showed weakness?
a. From 1928-1932,
the Weimar
Republic is
WEAK!!
– Elite want Hitler
appointed
Chancellor 
– They thought he
would be their…
• President Hindenburg
thinks Germany needs
man of action
• Middle and Lower
class want a change
too
• What did the elite
think?
• Franz von Papen
steps down to Vice
Chancellor
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• Chancellor Palpatine gains
Total Power from the
Senate in Star Wars
because of a Civil War he
created!!
• In Jan 1933, Hitler does
not have Total Power!!
– Commies in his way…
– Hitler needs to suck more
power from the Reichstag
just like Palpatine did
• Feb 27, 1933
• Who did it?
– Nazis
• Who is blamed?
– Communist Party
• Hitler gets
Hindenburg to
pass…
• What does Hitler
hope can now be
accomplished?
Date
% of
Background
Reichstag
May
1924
6.5
Hitler in Prison
Dec
1924
3.0
Hitler out of Prison
2.6
Hitler running the Nazis for
years now
18.3
Germany’s Depression starts!!
July
1932
37.4
Hitler comes in 2nd place for
President to Hindenburg
Nov
1932
33.1
No confidence vote by Nazis
called months earlier
March
1933
43.9
Reichstag Fire!!!!
Communists get blamed
May
1928
Sept
1930
Status of the Nazis?
• Hindenburg lets Hitler
suspend all civil rights
– habeas corpus
• March 1933 Election…
– Communist Party is
suppressed
• Reichstag votes to
let cabinet run
legislative business
• Nazi party (Hitler)
now controls
cabinet
• Eliminates opposing
parties
• Close to one-party
dictatorship
• One person stands
in the way…
• The Senate will
vote to make
Palpatine Emperor
for stability!!!!
– “So that’s how
democracy
dies…with
thunderous
applause”
• Hitler will
accomplish the
same thing!!
• June 30, 1934, Hitler “kills”
2 birds with one stone
 Ernst Rohm killed and the
SA will soon be “shut down”
 Wehrmacht no longer a
threat to Hitler
• Hitler announces no election for President
• Cabinet passes law making Hitler Führer und
Reichskanzler, or Leader and Chancellor
• Hitler now has Total Control