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Hitler’s Background and Rise to Power

Hitler’s Background and Rise to Power. Hitler’s Early Years. Born April 20, 1889 in Austria Young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child; he was very hostile to his authoritarian father, but he was strongly attached to his mother. Hitler left school at age 16

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Hitler’s Background and Rise to Power

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  1. Hitler’s Background and Rise to Power

  2. Hitler’s Early Years • Born April 20, 1889 in Austria • Young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child; he was very hostile to his authoritarian father, but he was strongly attached to his mother. • Hitler left school at age 16 • Moved to Munich after his mother’s death where he tried to enter art school, but was rejected due to a lack of talent. • Later, Hitler fought in WWI, where he was wounded.

  3. Hitler joins the Nazis • In 1919, at age thirty Hitler joined a group of soldiers who were outraged by the outcomes of WWI and they form the German Socialist Worker’s Party, which later became the Nazi Party • By 1922, Hitler was well known because of the many meetings he hosted, speaking to the public about his hatred for communists and Jews; he also talked about the unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles. • In 1925, Hitler writes the book MeinKampf (My Struggle). This book became the “bible” of the Nazi Movement.**

  4. Vocabulary • concentration camps: prison camps established after the Nazis gained power. • Third Reich: German reich meaning empire; Nazis called their empire the third empire.

  5. Hitler’s Rise to Power • Nazi Party gain many supporters; including doctors, lawyers, scientists and factory workers (all social classes). • Hitler used the desperate state of the public during the Great Depression, to gain support; He promised them what they wanted to hear. • From the elections of 1932, the Nazi Party gained majority of the control and became the strongest single party in government decisions. • President Paul von Hindenburg believed and was persuaded that Hitler could lead Germany out of crisis and still be controlled; Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor in 1933. • Hitler immediately took steps to end democracy and create a dictatorship.

  6. Hitler’s Rise to Power • All civil rights, freedom of speech, press, and the right to assemble were taken away; even personal mail was not private anymore. • He created special security forces to murder or arrest communist, socialist, or other opposition. • Enabling Act: allowed Nazis to arrest any “enemy of the state” without warrant and they were then sent to concentration camps. • After Hindenburg’s death in 1934, Hitler’s Third Reich gained full control; democracy was dead.

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