Nazi Germany

● Long term bitterness ● Weak Constitution ● Financial support ● Propaganda + promises ● Personnality ● Great Depression ● Hindenburg and Von Papen “He was holding the masses, and me with them, under an hypnotic spell by the sheer force of his beliefs. His words were like a whip. When he spoke of the disgrace of Germany, I felt ready to attack any enemy.” Karl Ludecke, an early follower of Hitler (1924). Becoming Chancellor

The Reichstag Fire

● Burned down by Van der Lubbe ● Hitler uses the excuse to arrest Communist opponents ● Used in his campaign of th of February 1933

General Elections ● 5 th of March 1933 ● Hitler called upon the German people to give him a clear mandate ● Got 44% of votes: not a majority in the Reichstag ● Hitler arrested 81 Communist deputies: this gave him a majority.

The Enabling Act

Enabling Act ● Reichstag voted to give Hitler power to make his own laws ● Opposition deputies prevented from going in by the stormtroopers ● They beat up anyone who actually dared speaking against it ● 23 rd of March 1933 ● Hitler is now a dictator ● He has the power to do anything he wants legally

Chancellor to Fuhrer ● Reichstag Fire ● General Elections ● Enabling Act ● Total Control ● Night of the Long Knives ● Fuhrer

SA: Sturmabteilung ● Organized force of tough Nazi stormtroopers ● Paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. ● Often called "brownshirts" ● 3,000,000 members (1934) ● Röhm was the only Nazi whom Hitler addressed as such. In turn, Röhm was the only Nazi who addressed Hitler as "Adolf," rather than "mein Führer."

SS: Schutzstaffel ● 1,250,000 (Feb 1945)

SS ● The Schutzstaffel, abbreviated SS —was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS, under Heinrich Himmler's command. After 1945, the SS was banned in Germany, along with the Nazi Party, as a criminal organization. ● The SS was formed in 1925 as a personal protection guard unit for Adolf Hitler. Under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler between 1929 and 1945, the SS grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the Third Reich. ● 1,250,000 in 1945

Leading Nazis ● with those closest to Hitler, including Prussian premier Hermann Göring, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and SS Chief Heinrich Himmler positioning themselves against Röhm ● Ernst Julius Röhm, (November 28, 1887 – July 2, 1934) was an officer of the Bavarian Army and later a Nazi leader. He was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA)

Germany under the Nazis ● Chancellor to Fuhrer ● The Reichstag Fire ● Enabling Act ● Anti-Semitism ● Elections ● The SS and the SA ● The Night of the Long Knives ● Leading Nazis ● Rearmament ● Military reoccupation of the Rhineland ● Foreign Policy ● Anschluss ● The Sudetenland Presentations: Historical content: 7 Use of documents: 3 Activity: 4 Use of pbworks: 2 Presentation style:4