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HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY. Junior Cert History- 3 rd Year. 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). Hitler’s Ideas.
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HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY Junior Cert History- 3rd Year
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)
Hitler’s Ideas • Superior Aryan Race must be kept clean. • Lebensraum • Jews undermining Germany • Anti-Communist • Abolish Versailles • Weimar weak
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)
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).
Propaganda • Goebbles was minister in charge • Strict censorship • Mass rallies • Olympic games • Books burned and rewritten • Hitler Youth. League of German Maidens (BDM)
Successes at home • 6 million found jobs in 3 years • Autobahns • Volkswagen • Rearmament
The Jews • Anti-Semitism • Nuremberg laws (no citizenship, no intermarriage, star of David) • Crystal Night • Ghettoes • Final Solution.