The Rise of Hitler

1. The Rise of Hitler

2. National Socialist German Workers Party Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party

3. Racism Adherents of the Nazi ideology held that the Aryan race were superior to other races, and they promoted Germanic racial supremacy and a strong, centrally governed state.

4. Adolf Hitler The most prominent Nazi was Adolf Hitler, who ruled Nazi Germany from January 30, 1933, until his suicide on April 30, 1945.

5. Militarism Under Hitler, ethnic nationalism and racism were joined together through an ideology of militarism to serve his goals.

6. Neo Nazi’s Nazism has been outlawed in modern Germany (including all types of its propaganda), yet small remnants and revivalists, known as "Neo-Nazis", continue to operate in Germany and abroad.

7. Fascism The term Fascism is often used in a very broad sense, to refer to a variety of authoritarian nationalist political movements that exist or existed in many countries. As such, Nazism is usually classified as a particular version of Fascism.

8. German Fascism Since World War II, in which Nazi Germany was allied with Fascist Italy, there has been a widely held view among historians and the general population that Nazism and Fascism are closely related.

9. Mein Kampf In Mein Kampf (My Struggle) Hitler developed his political theories. Hitler outlined his views based on a racial, religious, and cultural hierarchy, placing "Aryans" at the top as the superior race, and Jews, Gypsies, and Slavic people at the bottom

10. His political policies emerged after closely examining and questioning the policies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hitler was born as a citizen of the Empire, and believed that ethnic and linguistic diversity had weakened it.

11. Further, he saw democracy as a destabilizing force because it placed power in the hands of ethnic minorities who, he claimed, "weakened and destabilized" the Empire by dividing it against itself. These ideologies emerged at a critical time for Germany, having just lost the first world war and then entering a period of great economic depression.

12. Hitler drew parallels between Lebensraum and the American ethnic cleansing and relocation policies towards the Native Americans, which he saw as key to the success of the U.S.

13. Trail of Tears Hitler had always admired the Americans for their treatment of the Native Americans, and considered America to be a shining example of what Germany's ambitions should be.

14. Lebensraum Hitler often compared his Lebensraum policies to the Manifest Destiny policy of the United States, in which the ultimate destiny of the American people was to expand west and defeat the Indians.

15. Manifest Destiny Manifest Destiny is a phrase that expressed the belief that the United States had a divinely inspired mission to expand, spreading its form of democracy and freedom.

16. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but that it was obvious ("manifest") and inevitable ("destiny").

17. Originally a political catch phrase of the 19th century, Manifest Destiny eventually became a standard historical term, often used as a synonym for the territorial expansion of the United States across North America towards the Pacific Ocean.

18. Early Hitler Actions As a Corporal in the German army, Adolf Hitler was ordered in September 1919 to investigate a small group in Munich known as the German Workers' Party. The use of the term 'workers' attracted the attention of the German Army which was now involved in crushing Marxist uprisings.

19. German Workers Party On September 12, dressed in civilian clothes, Hitler went to a meeting of the German Workers' Party in the back room of a Munich beer hall, with about twenty five people

20. Worker’s Party begins to grow In his speeches Hitler railed against the Treaty of Versailles and delivered anti-Semitic tirades, blaming the Jews for Germany's problems. Attendance slowly increased, numbering in the hundreds

21. NAZI Party Platform He proceeded to outline the Twenty Five Points of the German Workers' Party, its political platform, which included;

22. NAZI Party Platform the union of all Germans in a greater German Reich rejection of the Treaty of Versailles the demand for additional territories for the German people (Lebensraum) citizenship determined by race with no Jew to be considered a German

23. NAZI Party Platform all income not earned by work to be confiscated a thorough reconstruction of the national education system religious freedom except for religions which endanger the German race a strong central government for the execution of effective legislation.

24. Hitler becomes leader of the NAZI Party July 29, 1921, Adolf Hitler was introduced as Führer of the Nazi Party, marking the first time that title was publicly used to address him.

25. NAZI attempt to capture Munich Around 11 a.m. on the morning of November 9, a column of three thousand Nazis, led by Hitler, Göring and Ludendorff marched toward the center of Munich. Carrying one of the flags was a young party member named Heinrich Himmler.

27. Hitler sentenced to prison On April 1, 1924, Hitler was taken to the old fortress at Landsberg and given a spacious private cell with a fine view.

28. Hitler released after 9 months. Shortly before Christmas 1924, Hitler is released from prison. He decides to abandon thoughts of armed rebellion and commits to getting the NAZI party elected democratically.

29. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis waged a modern whirlwind campaign in 1930 unlike anything ever seen in Germany. Hitler traveled the country delivering dozens of major speeches, attending meetings, shaking hands, signing autographs, posing for pictures, and even kissing babies.

30. On election day September 14, 1930, the Nazis received 6,371,000 votes, over eighteen percent of the total, and were thus entitled to 107 seats in the German Reichstag. It was a stunning victory for Hitler. Overnight, the Nazi party went from the smallest to the second largest party in Germany.

31. Hitler for President

32. Nuremberg Race Laws March 16 - Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription. Sept 15 Hitler introduces the Nuremberg Race Laws

33. The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help.