The Rise of Fascism in Germany

1. The Rise of Fascism in Germany An Analysis of the Nazi Movement By Mr. Stankus

8. How did hitler come to power? • Support from: • Nationalists • wealthy businessmen : especially weapons makers • Anti-communists • conservatives

10. The Weimar Republic • Democratic Government after WWI • Treaty of Versailles weakened Weimar Republic • was humiliating, opposed Germany’s interests • High unemployment, soaring inflation

11. Election of 1932 • Paul von Hindenburg • Monarchist • Militarist • Nationalist • Conservative • 53%of vote to Hitler’s 37%

12. The Nazis and Hitler • Nazi Party was extremely nationalistic, anti-Semitic, and anti-communist • Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, which planned for racial purity, promised to repeal Treaty of Versailles

13. Social Democratic Election Poster 1930

14. Communist party hq

15. Walk out at the reichstag

16. Socialist veterans

17. The Nazis in Power • Created anticommunist hysteria • Nazis would destroy something and blame it on communists

22. The Nazis in Power

23. Strong leader Dictatorship Propaganda Promise of Glory Unity through a Common Enemy Military Tradition Indoctrinating Youth Hitler Furher Rebirth of third reich Fight against Communists & jews Ss brownshirts Hitler youth and Schools Review:Dynamics of German Fascism

24. Dynamics of Fascism: The Nazis • Strong leader Dictatorship • Propaganda • Promise of Glory • Unity through a Common Enemy • Military Tradition • Indoctrinating Youth After fifteen years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical will-power, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles. The broad masses of a population are more agreeable to the appeal of rhetoric (flowery speech) than to any other force. Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all. The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating (bringing together) the attention of the people against a single adversary (enemy) and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already. . . . What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”

25. Nazism • fascist movement : tightly restricted personal freedom but permitted private ownership of property • Nazis called for 3 Goals • aggressive nationalism • militarism • expansion of Germany's borders

26. Nazism • glorified the Germans and other northern European peoples, whom they called Aryans • Jews, Slavs, and other minority groups were inferior • opposed: • democracy, Communism, socialism, feminism, and equality

27. Nazism • promised to build a harmonious, orderly, and prosperous society for Germans. • Instead, it brought terrorism, war, and mass murder.

29. questions • What are the three main goals of Fascism? • What did the Nazi movement promise the people of Germany? Why were these promises unfulfilled? • Explain why each of these groups would be in favor of or against Nazism: • Military Officers- • Middle class workers- • Minority groups- • Women- • Clergy- • Wealthy Industrialists- • Communists- • Poor Germans- • Which single event had the largest impact in causing the growth of Nazism?