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The Rise of Hitler
Remember Fascism?
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“Nazism is Fascism, only with
an Anti-Semitic twist
Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitic, or Anti-Semitism:
– suspicion of, hatred toward,
or discrimination against Jews
as a religious, ethnic or racial
group
Germany in the 1920’s
• High unemployment rate & Hyper-Inflation
• 1918 Germany was a republic known as
Weimar Republic
• The Weimar Republic was not popular
with the German people
– It was hated because it signed the Treaty of
Versailles
– People saw the Weimar Republic as traitors
Hitler, Leader of the Nazi Party
• Joined the National Socialist German Workers’
Party: (Nazi Party)
• Copied many ideas of the Fascist Party
• 1921 Hitler became leader
of the Nazi Party
Hitler, Leader of the Nazi Party
• Adopt the swastika to tie his ideas to the past
and the occult
• Established the SA or Brown Shirts
– Nazis that supported Hitler
Beer Hall Putsch of 1923
• In 1923, he attempted
a coup d'état in
Munich, known as the
Beer Hall Putsch.
• Hitler sent to prison
Hitler
– There he wrote his
memoir, Mein Kampf
(My Struggle).
Coup d’etat: A revolution to try and take over the government
Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
• Book that set forth Hitler’s beliefs and goals:
– Racial Purity
– Aryans = “master race” those of Germanic decent,
blond hair and blue eyes
– Non-Aryans = “inferior or subhuman races,” Jews,
Slavs and Gypsies
Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
1. Denouncement of the Treaty of Versailles
2. Lebensraum:
– “living space” Hitler called for an invasion of
Russia to allow the German race to grow
3. The twin evils:
– Communism and Judaism, his aim was to
eradicate both from the face of the earth
Hitler’s Rise to Power
• 1933, To increase the number of Nazis serving
in the Parliament, Hitler calls a new election.
• Six days before the elections the Reichstag
(House of Parliament) is set on fire
Hitler’s Rise to Power
• The Nazis blame the communists and win a
slim majority in Parliament
• Enabling Act 1933
– With a majority, Hitler asks to be given total control
of the legislative power for 4 years only
Hitler’s policies
• Banned opposition parties and arrested
opposition leaders
• Created the SS (Hitler’s guards) led by
Heinrich Himmler, who arrested and murdered
hundreds
Hitler’s Politics
• Night of the Long Knives
– Hitler ordered the killing of many Brown Shirts
leaders in order to keep the SA in line
• Gestapo: secret police that used brutality and
terror to keep everyone in line
Hitler’s Economics
• Banned Strikes and
dissolved labor
unions
• Government took
control over
businesses
• Started many
government jobs
that put millions to
work building public
works
Hitler’s Social Rules
• Propaganda: found in
the Press, Radio,
Literature, Paintings
and Films
• Book Burning, great
classics were burned
because they did not
agree with Hitler’s
ideas
Hitler’s Social Rules
• Hitler Youth (boys) and League of German
Girls
– Taught violence and struggle as part of life (Social
Darwinism)
Hitler’s Youth
• By 1938, military training was routine
• Girls were in the female division,
known as the League of German
Girls
– Had uniforms
– Also camped and hiked
– Taught domestic skills
– Women were expected to be
faithful wives and dutiful mothers
Blame the Jew!
• Blamed Jews for all of Germany’s problems
– Jews made up 1% of Pop. in Germany
• Nuremberg Laws, 1933
– Denied Jews the right to vote
– Ban against mixed marriages
– Kicked out of professional jobs
Blame the Jew!
• Kristallnacht: Boycott of all Jewish business
– Nov 9 1938, Night of the Broken Glass,
– Nazi mobs destroy thousands of Jewish
homes and shops
QUESTIONS TO ANSWER
1. What is the Mein Kampf and the Gestapo?
2. Why was the Weimar Republic unpopular
with the German people
3. Describe Hitler's social rules for the youth,
both girls and boys.
4. Explain some of Hitler’s economic ideas.
5. What were the Nuremberg Laws?
Quick Write: Please read the
quotes and guess whether it was
Hitler that said it, or Kanye West
• When a man is starving in the streets, he's not thinking of bread and water,
but of caviar and champagne.“
Hitler said it
• "I stand here as a revolutionary. It is as a revolutionary against the
revolution."
Hitler said it
Kanye said it
• "I might have to go back to war. I just might have to."
• "Nothing in life is promised except death."
Kanye said it
• "I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the
voice of this generation, of this decade. That I will be the loudest voice."
Kanye said it
• "Who says I am not under the special protection of God?"Hitler said it
• "I could design something for Obama to go to the club in." Hitler said it