1. How did the Nazi Party develop in the early 1920s?

2. Learning objective – to be able to explain the origins and development of the Nazi Party between 1919 and 1922.
I can describe the key features of the early development of the Nazi Party.
Grade 6
I can explain how the Nazi Party developed in the early 1920s.
Grade 3
I can explain and assess the impact of the early influences of the Nazi party.
Grade 1

11. Task
Define the following terms that relate to the early development of the Nazi Party.
Führerprinzip
Völkisch
November Criminals
Völkischer Beobachter
Führer
Sturmabteilung

12. Task
Find out when each event below took place and organise them in chronological order.
The Nazi Party is formed
Hitler is demobbed from the German Army
Hitler draws up the Twenty-Five Point Plan
Adolf Hitler sent to spy on the Nazis and joins up instead
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria
SA are formed
Adolf Hitler arrives in Germany
Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party
Hitler rebrands the Nazi Party

13. Extension
Cut out the source below and stick it into your exercise book. What can you infer from this source?
Source A
During the Communist attempt to take over Munich, I remained in the army ….. In my talks as an education officer, I attacked the bloodthirsty Red dictatorship … In 1919, I joined the German Workers’ Party, which then had seven members, and I believed that I had found a political movement in keeping with my own ideas.
From a letter written by Hitler in 1921.