1. Hitler and the Nazis

2. Hitler in power 1933 Chancellor The Reichstag Fire
Night of Long Knives – Rohm + SA eliminated
Fuhrer in 1934 (President Hindenburg died)

3. 1936 Full employment – Volkswagen SS + Gestapo Concentration camps
Nuremberg rallies
Nuremberg laws against Jews and Star of David; Built up army, navy, Hitler youth, maidens, censorship, propaganda

4. Hitler’s Road to War (1) 1933 – left Disarmament Conference
1934 – Night of Long Knives; Der Fuhrer,
Supreme Commander of armed Forces
- threatens Austria – backed down
1935 – Germany rearms; Rhineland (remilitarised)
1936 – Olympic Games in Germany
1936 – Pact of Steel, Anti-Comintern Pact

5. Hitler’s Road to War (2) 1938 – March – Anschluss with Austria
1938 – Sept – Sudetenland; Munich
conference
1939 – March – Rape of Czechoslovakia
1939 – Sept – Invasion of Poland (following the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Aug 22, 1939)