Download The Nazi Consolidation of Power 1933-1934

How was Hitler able
to consolidate Nazi
power between 1933 and
1934?
Lesson objectives
By the end of this lesson you should:
• Have made a judgement about Hitler’s actions
during the consolidation
Timeline race
You are going to split into 2 teams
You must sort your event cards into chronological order
First team to get the correct order wins a prize!
judgements
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
‘Once in power, nothing prevented Hitler from imposing his
ideas on Germany.’
‘Hitler took a mixture of radical and more cautious
measures.’
‘Where he took more drastic measures, it tended to be
policies which the elite welcomed, and which weakened the
Left.’
‘Within the first year Hitler established complete control of
all key institutions.’
‘Hitler was prepared to compromise on areas not crucial to
him.’
In your groups, you must decide to what extent you agree with
your statement and use evidence and examples to explain
why
judgements
Now write your own judgement about Hitler’s
actions and motivations during the
consolidation of power
Hitler’s Germany
• http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=T1uoB1BHScA&featu
re=related (to 10mins15)
• While watching, note down
any acts of the consolidation
of power that you think have
been missed out (you can
refer to your timeline)
How would you describe the
Nazi consolidation of power?
• Terror:
• Legality:
• Deception:
• Compromise:
Find evidence
to support the
following terms
• Weakness of opposition:
• Propaganda:
LINKS AND IMPORTANCE
OF FACTORS?
• Sympathy of conservative right:
How would you describe the
Nazi consolidation of power?
• Terror
• Legality
• Deception
• Compromise
• Weakness of opposition
• Propaganda
• Sympathy of conservative right
In pairs/threes, come up with all the examples you can find for the area you have
been given
How would you describe the
Nazi consolidation of power?
• Terror: Gestapo, Night of the Long Knives, SA, Concentration camps, leaders
arrested, Jewish boycott
• Legality: Enabling Act, Decree for Protection of People and State, act against
formation of new parties, disbanded trade unions
• Deception: Blamed Jews and Communists for losing war and economic problems,
exploited Reichstag Fire, Hitler misled powerful groups in order to destroy them e.g.
trade unions and SA, Enabling Act – exploited his power, Concordat agreement
• Compromise: Concordat
• Weakness of opposition: Concordat, dissolving of parties, trade unions replaced,
purge of civil service
• Propaganda: Creation of ministry of propaganda, Goebbels, Reichstag Fire, marches,
Potsdam ceremony
• Sympathy of conservative right: Big business – promised to rebuild economy, Army –
promised re-armament and conscription and purged SA, reversal of ToV
Did Germany undergo a
‘political revolution’ between
1933-4?
• Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people
cannot live on revolutions…Revolutions have
always been rare in Germany…In the next
thousand years there will be no other revolution
in Germany.
• Hitler (Nuremburg Rally September 1934)
Did Germany undergo a
‘political revolution’ between
1933-4?
Consolidation of Power has been
termed as a:
• ‘national revolution’, ‘legal
revolution’, ‘revolution from above
and below’, ‘cultural revolution’.
• How appropriate is such terminology
to describe the events between 19334?
• What is a revolution?
homework
• Use Layton p.23-4
• What arguments are there for (change) and
against (continuity) the consolidation of power
being classed as a revolution?
• Due: 03/10