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1919-24: Versailles’ punishments Ruhr , hyperinflation & unemployment National Socialism Beer Hall Putsch 1924-29 : stability & prosperity Nazis organize & plan 1929-33 : The Great Depression Nazis come to power. Hyperinflation in Germany. Weimar Germany. The German Mark.
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1919-24: Versailles’ punishments Ruhr, hyperinflation & unemployment National Socialism Beer Hall Putsch 1924-29: stability & prosperity Nazis organize & plan 1929-33: The Great Depression Nazis come to power Hyperinflation in Germany Weimar Germany
1929: Great Depression perfected electioneering “brown shirts” helped emphasized nationalism & traditional militarism appealed to all segments of society; fear of Communists! 1932: Nazis won 40% of seats 1933: under pressure, Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor Reichstag Fire Enabling Act Night of the Long Knives Nazi Parade c.1929 Nazis’ Rise to Power
Mass assemblies are also necessary for the reason that, in attending them, the individual who felt himself formerly only on the point of joining the new movement, now begins to feel isolated and in fear of being left alone as he acquires for the first time the picture of a great community which has a strengthening and encouraging effect on most people. Brigaded in a company or battalion, surrounded by his companions, he will march with a lighter heart to the attack than if he had to march alone. In the crowd he feels himself in some way thus sheltered. Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf
Economics: deficit spending Gender Roles: League of German Maidens Indoctrination: Hitler Youth Radical Anti-Semitism: Nuremburg Laws Nazi Germany