Hitler

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Hitlers Rise to Power
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Causes for the Rise of Hitler

• Germany felt stabbed in the back by the Treaty of
  Versailles
• Postwar Instability in Germany in 1920s
• Weimar Gov. ? Weak Democracy
• Economic recovery, followed by Depression

Stacks of German Marks, which were practically
worthless due to super inflation
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Lines would build up filled with people who
wanted to buy the few items left in stores
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Consolidation of Power

• 1920 Nazis declare their 20pt Nazi Manifesto
• 1923 Nazis try to march on Berlin to seize
  Government, but fail
• 1930 Great Depression hits Germany hard
• 1932 Nazi movement had grown dramatically, gain
  power
• in Gov.
• 1932 Hitler appointed Chancellor b/c believed
  it would
• make Government more republic
• 1933 Hitler has come to power by legal measures

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Consolidation of Power

• 1933 - Fire in gov. building, 40 unemployment,
  Hitler uses these as an excuse for temporary
  power to control situation
• 1933 Creates Enabling Act
• - temporarily allows Hitler to suspend
  Constitutional Gov. and deviate from the
  Constitution
• 1933 1949 ? end of Constitutional Gov.
• June 30, 1934 Night of Long Knives
• - Hitler eliminates political rivals ? jail,
  concentration camps, or murdered
• - S.S. is created

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Attractions of Nazism

• Economic Recovery
• 40 unemployment to 0 by 1933
• Sense of National Rebirth
• A New energy for Germany after their humiliation
  in WW1
• Idea of New National Community
• Feeling of new creation of New German Community
• Class does not Matter, only that you are German

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Nazism Beliefs

• Social Darwinism
• Idea of a Superior Aryan Race
• 19th Century Anti-Semitism Based not on
  Religion, but on RACE ? Jews were inferior
• In the past Jews could escape by conversion, but
  now there is no escape
• Pan Germanism Unite all Germanic people under
  one Gov.
• Emphasis on YOUTH, EMOTIONS, WILL