Rise of the Nazis, fascism: right-wing, nationalist, anti- capitalist, anti-Semitic, völkisch Volksgemeinschaft = people’s community communism: extreme left- wing; radical form of socialism socialismliberalismcenter: moderate ground on political spectrum conservatismfascism: extreme right-wing; includes Nazism Basic Model of the Political Spectrum Free Corps: A band of WWI veterans, anti-Weimar Republic and proto-fascist (early fascists). Notice the swastika armbands.
National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) = Nazi Party Nazi Leaders, c. 1923: General Erich Ludendorff in center, Adolf Hitler to the right. My Struggle (1925)
Hitler’s Goal: SPACE Territorial Losses WWI Early Nazi Expansion, Lebensraum = living space
Hitler’s Goal: RACE “One People/Race (Volk), one Empire, one Leader!” Morning after Night of Broken Glass, Berlin street, 1938: Pogrom organized by the Nazis and executed by the SA.
Legal Takeover Great Depression President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Adolf Hitler, May 1933
Reichstag (Parliament) Elections
Enabling Act & Terror SA (Storm Troopers) forcing political prisoners to scrub anti-Nazi slogans off a wall, March SS (Protection Squad) greeting Hitler; Heinrich Himmler is behind Hitler, to his immediate right, April 1938.
Coercion or Consent? Coercion: prisoners in Oranienburg, Berlin, April 1933.
Coercion or Consent? Consent: 1933 postcard. “Walk with ‘Strength through Joy,’” the Nazi leisure organization.
Ministry of Public Enlightenment & Propaganda Joseph Goebbels at his desk, March Leni Riefenstahl, looking through the lens of a large camera, on set of Triumph of the Will (1935): ?v=GHs2coAzLJ8 ?v=GHs2coAzLJ8