HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014 Lecture Sixteen: From Weimar to Hitler

The Emergence of the NSDAP and Adolf Hitler The “German Workers Party” and the Crisis of 1919 Adolf Hitler – His Early Life and Temperament Hitler Takes Over the NSDAP Nature of the Early Nazi Party The Sturmabteilung (SA)

The Fringe Years The Beer Hall Putsch and Banning of Party Mein Kampf Building the Party Infrastructure – Julius Streicher, Gregor and Otto Strasser, Josef Goebbels Revolution or Electoral Politics?

Hitler’s Opportunity Stock Market Crash and Depression Nazi Politics Party Growth – ,00 members – ,000 members – ,000 members Elections of 1932/33 and Right Wing Plans January, 1933 – Hitler takes Control

The Nazi Coup Reichstag Fire Enabling Act Night of the Long Knives and Emergence of SS Death of Hindenburg – Hitler becomes Fuhrer Gleichschaltung – “Co-ordination” Where was the Resistance?

Germany Under Nazi Rule Centrality of Anti-Semitism – Racial Ideas Nuremberg Laws 1935 Propaganda and Nazi Symbolism Attacks on Degenerate Art The Gestapo and Concentration Camps Eugenics and Euthanasia “Working Towards the Fuhrer” Kristallnacht 1938