1. Did Weimar Germany have the strength to solve the problems of the Great Depression? C aim – to explain both sides and give a judgement B aim – to explain both sides and give an explained and supported judgement A aim – to explain both sides and give a fully supported judgement
Do these posters suggest that Weimar Germany had the strength to survive the Great Depression?

2. What happened?
1/3 unemployed
Shanty towns

3. 1931 – the government suddenly did more! Why?
1931 reparations suspension. Bruning set up public work schemes. Papen then gave land to dispossessed peasants and workers.
Introduced protectionary policies
It was too little too late, the economy improved but it had no real impact on the German people at the time, so the public still voted for the Nazis, and then Hitler took the credit for the recovery

4. How did the Weimar government react to the Great Depression?

5. What political impact would the Great Depression have on Germany?

6. It led to... Further disenchantment with the Weimar Republic
What happened to votes? (6.6 and 6.7 p. 107)

7. Did Weimar Germany have the strength to solve the problems of the Great Depression? Discuss

8. Did Weimar Germany have the strength to solve the problems of the Great Depression? Write a conclusion to this question. Include as much justification as you can.

9. Weimar Germany knowledge quiz

10. The Rise of the Nazis Early years Munich Putsch Increasing popularity
Propaganda
Hitler becoming Chancellor
The Nazis consolidation of power (Hitler becoming Fuhrer, removing opposition and the terror state)

11. Were the Nazis a fringe irritant in the early years?
Hitler was sent to spy on the Nazis by the Bavarian government in He approved of their message and became a member. He was given the membership number of 555, although he was actually the 55th member, and of these only 7 regularly met as the ‘committee’ and they struggled to get more people to attend meetings. The Nazi party were one of many small extremist groups.
Were the Nazis a serious threat in 1919?

12. http://www. youtube. com/watch. v=dSjkpaXlXIE&safe=active 19
– joining the party
Hitler persuaded the committee to place an advertisement in an anti-Semitic newspaper in Munich. He always persuaded them to move the public meeting to a beer cellar that would hold about a hundred. The other committee members were concerned they might have trouble filling the place, but just over a hundred showed up at the meeting held on October 16, 1919.
Hitler was scheduled to be the second speaker at this meeting. It was to be his first time as a featured speaker, despite the misgivings of some committee members who doubted Hitler's ability at this time.
But when Hitler got up to speak, he astounded everyone with a highly emotional, at times near hysterical manner of speech making. He soon became their leader. They started putting more money into propaganda.
Twenty-five Point Programme – How popular would this be?
In 1920, the party renamed itself the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis), and announced its Twenty-Five Point Programme – which Hitler helped to put together. This set out everything that they wanted to do.
At first, the Nazis were both nationalist (they believed in Germany’s greatness) and socialist (they believed the state should benefit everybody equally).

13. The Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch
In November 1923, with hyperinflation at its worst, Hitler decided that the Nazis were strong enough to overthrow the government. Stresemann had also just given in to the French and ended the passive resistance campaign in the Ruhr. Hitler felt sure that when he marched to Berlin, people would flock to join him.
On 8th November, Hitler, backed up by 600 SA, broke into a meeting being held by three leaders of the Bavarian government in a Munich beer hall. Holding a gun to one of the leaders’ heads, he forced him to tell the audience they would help him with his plan. Then General Ludendorff, a great German war hero, entered the hall and promised his support. The audience were convinced.
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14. The next day, however, the three Bavarian leaders went back on their word and ordered the army to attack the SA. In the centre of Munich the two sides met. 16 Nazis were killed, and Hitler escaped with a dislocated shoulder. He and Ludendorff were arrested and charged with high treason.

15. Hitler imprisoned
Hitler’s trial lasted 24 days, and catapulted him onto the front page of every German newspaper. Everything Hitler said was reported in the paper. Finally, he was speaking to a national audience.
Hitler’s eloquence in his defence so impressed the judges that they set Ludendorff free and sentenced Hitler to five years imprisonment, with the chance of parole after six months. The other Nazis in the dock got off with equally light sentences.

16. Most of Hitler’s time in prison was spent writing Mein Kampf (my struggle), in which he described his ideas on history, politics, race and Germany’s future.
After serving only nine months of his sentence, Hitler was set free. A police report said: “The moment he is set free, Hitler will … become the driving force of new and serious public riots…”
The Nazis realised that they couldn’t try to take power by force. They decided they needed to be persuade people to vote for them. They also decided to use more propaganda and posters. The Nazis increasingly united behind Hitler and used his new book Mein Kampf.

17. What this show about the stability of the Weimar government?
What does this suggest about the rise of the Nazis?

18. Homework – due Thursday
On pp complete tasks 1 and 2 in the activity box (the table one!)