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Hitler and Nazi Germany: Rise to Power and Policies of the Third Reich

Explore Adolf Hitler's early career in Austria, his leadership of the Nazi party, and the factors that led to the rise of Nazism in Germany. Learn about Hitler's ideas, propaganda tactics, and the implementation of anti-Semitic policies. Discover how Hitler solidified his power, leading to the dictatorship of the Third Reich and the atrocities of the Holocaust.

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Hitler and Nazi Germany: Rise to Power and Policies of the Third Reich

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  1. HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY Junior Cert History- 3rd Year

  2. Early career • Austrian • Blamed Jews for art failure in Vienna • Dispatch rider in German army. 2 Iron crosses. Wounded twice. • Joined Nazi party as gov spy. Became leader. • Munich Putsch. Trial and Jail (Mein Kampf)

  3. Hitler’s Ideas • Superior Aryan Race must be kept clean. • Lebensraum • Jews undermining Germany • Anti-Communist • Abolish Versailles • Weimar weak

  4. Why Nazism became popular. • Weak governments • Economic problems • Great depression • Popular policies on Versailles, Communism, Jews. • Violence. SA ‘Brownshirts’ (Rohm) SS and Gestapo (Himmler) • Propaganda • Hitler’s personality (speeches)

  5. Becoming a dictator • More popular in 1930s. Elected Chancellor in 1933. • SA and SS beat up opponents • Reichstag fire = banned socialists • Enabling law = rule by decree • Banned all other parties. • Became Fuhrer (leader).

  6. Propaganda • Goebbles was minister in charge • Strict censorship • Mass rallies • Olympic games • Books burned and rewritten • Hitler Youth. League of German Maidens (BDM)

  7. Successes at home • 6 million found jobs in 3 years • Autobahns • Volkswagen • Rearmament

  8. The Jews • Anti-Semitism • Nuremberg laws (no citizenship, no intermarriage, star of David) • Crystal Night • Ghettoes • Final Solution.

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