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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY. The Nazis Consolidate Power 2. The Economic Program. Repression Masked by Economic Revival Lebensraum Hitler’s Economic Aims. Public Works – The Autobahn. Rearmament. Hitler Crushes the Stormtroopers – The Night of Long Knives.
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HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY The Nazis Consolidate Power 2
The Economic Program • Repression Masked by Economic Revival • Lebensraum • Hitler’s Economic Aims
Hitler Crushes the Stormtroopers – The Night of Long Knives • Distrust Among Senior Nazi Officials – Himmler & Roehm • Hitler’s Need To Protect His Power • The Need to Placate the Army & Big Business • Hitler Moves on the SA
Why Did Hitler Succeed? • Sense of the Moment • Promise of Renewal • The Reality of Nazi Dictatorship
Nazi Energy or a Broken Down System? What was compelling about Hitler and what distinguished him from other right-wing parties were not only the external trappings – the feverish activity, the endless marching, the mass rallies, and the ceaseless propaganda drives – important though these were in gathering votes, but above all the ruthless will to victory and a fanatical sense of commitment emanating from the Fuehrer and his followers. - Richard Evans
Nazi Energy or a Broken Down System? The best conditions for the triumph of the crazy ultra-right were an old state and its ruling mechanism which could no longer function; a mass of disenchanted, disorientated and discontented citizens who no longer knew where their loyalties lay; strong socialist movements threatening or appearing to threaten social revolution, but not actually in a position to achieve it; and a move of national resentment against the peace treaties of 1918-1920. - Eric Hobsbawm