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Life of a Tyrant: Notes on Hitler

*. “Political misjudgments and wrong turns are like Tuberculosis - hard to detect and easy to cure in the beginning and easy to diagnose and very hard to cure at the end.” - Machiavelli. Life of a Tyrant: Notes on Hitler. http://hsgm.free.fr/liens/hitler.jpg. A. Early Background.

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Life of a Tyrant: Notes on Hitler

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  1. * • “Political misjudgments and wrong turns are like Tuberculosis - hard to detect and easy to cure in the beginning and easy to diagnose and very hard to cure at the end.” - Machiavelli

  2. Life of a Tyrant: Notes on Hitler http://hsgm.free.fr/liens/hitler.jpg

  3. A. Early Background Hitler Sketch 1914-----------> • Born in Austria in 1889 (100 years before Mr. Gnass graduated from high school) • Rejected from Vienna’s prestigious art school. • Moved to Germany and joined the army; fought in WWI

  4. B. Hitler and the Nazi Party--the 20s • 1. Joined the National Socialist Germans Worker Party (Nazis) • 2. Formed a group of Brown shirts, which later became storm troopers that would beat up people who disagreed with him.

  5. 1923: Beer Hall Putsch –Violent Uprising! • 3. Under the control of Adolf Hitler, Nazis attempt to seize control of the government by force in Munich. This is called the Beer Hall Putsch (1923) • 4. Lesson: not many good ideas come from beer Halls--so don’t drink! • Until you’re 21 or drafted into the military. • 5. Hitler went to prison; wrote Mein Kampf

  6. C. Hitler’s Ideas and Goals • 1. Fuehrer principal--Germany must be ruled by a single, strong leader who has great power. • 2. Liberate Germany from the shackles of the Treaty of Versailles • 3.To unite Germanic peoples in the Third Reich • 4. To Establish in Eastern Europe the German Lebensraum (living space) Need more land. • 5. Race: some races are better than others. The best races are “pure” ones. Germans, who belong to the Aryan race, must keep themselves pure. • 6. Anti-semitism: Jews are the biggest threat to German purity. They helped bring Germany’s defeat in WWI.

  7. Other ideas • 7. Communism is bad; it says people all over the world have something in common. It Lives! Deutschland!

  8. D. How He Took Over 1. Depression in the early 1930s made more people vote for the Nazis. 2. Hitler was appointed Chancellor by German President Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. January 1933

  9. Then in 1933……

  10. THE REICHSTAG FIRE 3. After the Reichstag burned down, the Communists (a political party) were banned from the Reichstag--no more opposition February 1933

  11. March 1933 4. With the Communists were banned from the Reichstag Hitler was able to pass: THE ENABLING ACT HITLER CAN RULE Germany FOR FOUR YEARS. NO NEED TO CONSULT THE REICHSTAG.

  12. June 1934 5. The Night of the Long Knives • 30th June 1934 - Hitler’s S.S. killed over 1000 army leaders • Hitler had gained the support of the army.

  13. August 1934 HINDENBURG DIES 6. Hitler COMBINED THE ROLE OF CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT. HE CALLED HIMSELF ‘DER FUHRER’. 7. He now rules Germany alone!

  14. August 1934 Oath of Loyalty: Every soldier swore a personal oath of loyalty to ADOLF HITLER. "I swear by God this sacred oath that I shall render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler, the Führer of the German Reich, supreme commander of the armed forces, and that I shall at all times be prepared, as a brave soldier, to give my life for this oath."

  15. The economic situation was very bad Hitler was a great public speaker The SA and SS disrupted he work of political opponents The Nazi’s were funded by industrialists such as Alfred Hugenberg The other political parties wouldn’t work together Chancellor’s in the period 1928-33 weren’t widely supported within the Reichstag Goebbel’s propaganda was effective People were fed up of ineffective coalition governments and the current situation The Nazi’s targeted certain groups of the electorate People didn’t want a return to the hyperinflation of 1923-24 How were the Nazi’s able to achieve this so quickly?

  16. The Reichstag Fire Creates a climate that Hitler can manipulate for his on ends The Enabling Act Hitler uses Article 48 to create a State of Emergency. The act effectively ends democracy in Germany. The Night of the Long Knives Opposition from within the party is removed: violently. The SA is ‘purged’. Hitler used his position, and the frailties and subsequent death of Hindendburg, to engineer a Nazi take over of government. He makes use of Article 48 to legitimise the end of democracy before radically altering the structure of government. Soon opposition is banned and Germany has a one party state. Pressure groups, such as Trade unions, are also banned. This Nazi ‘Revolution’ is secured as a result of the removal of all possible threats to nazi rule: the SA, the army and political parties are all ‘dealt with’ by the end of 1934. How did Hitler consolidate power?

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