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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany. Becoming Chancellor. “He was holding the masses, and me with them, under an hypnotic spell by the sheer force of his beliefs. His words were like a whip. When he spoke of the disgrace of Germany, I felt ready to attack any enemy.”

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Nazi Germany

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  1. Nazi Germany

  2. Becoming Chancellor “He was holding the masses, and me with them, under an hypnotic spell by the sheer force of his beliefs. His words were like a whip. When he spoke of the disgrace of Germany, I felt ready to attack any enemy.” Karl Ludecke, an early follower of Hitler (1924). • Long term bitterness • Weak Constitution • Financial support • Propaganda + promises • Personnality • Great Depression • Hindenburg and Von Papen

  3. The Reichstag Fire

  4. Burned down by Van der Lubbe • Hitler uses the excuse to arrest Communist opponents • Used in his campaign of 1933 27th of February 1933

  5. General Elections • 5th of March 1933 • Hitler called upon the German people to give him a clear mandate • Got 44% of votes: not a majority in the Reichstag • Hitler arrested 81 Communist deputies: this gave him a majority.

  6. The Enabling Act

  7. 23rd of March 1933 Hitler is now a dictator He has the power to do anything he wants legally Enabling Act • Reichstag voted to give Hitler power to make his own laws • Opposition deputies prevented from going in by the stormtroopers • They beat up anyone who actually dared speaking against it

  8. Chancellor to Fuhrer • Reichstag Fire • General Elections • Enabling Act • Total Control • Night of the Long Knives • Fuhrer

  9. Anti-Semitism • Blamed Jews for all of Germany's problems anti-Jewish boycotts • staged book burnings, • enacted anti-Jewish legislation. • the Nuremberg Laws defined Jews by race • destroyed synagogues and the shop windows of Jewish-owned stores

  10. SA: Sturmabteilung • Organized force of tough Nazi stormtroopers • Paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. • Often called "brownshirts" • 3,000,000 members (1934) • Röhm was the only Nazi whom Hitler addressed as such. In turn, Röhm was the only Nazi who addressed Hitler as "Adolf," rather than "mein Führer."

  11. SS: Schutzstaffel • 1,250,000 (Feb 1945) • Was largely responsible for the taking down of the SA during the Night of the Long Knives • Originally Hitler's personnal bodyguard

  12. Leading Nazis • Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels • SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, head of all interior forces • Ernst Julius Röhm,was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung and later commander

  13. Hermann Göring Second in command of the Nazi regime, answered only to Hitler.

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