1. The rise of the extremist parties

2. Fragility of parliamentary system Economic crisis Appeal of Nazi party / propaganda / Hitler

3. No solution for economic crisis Further political radicalisation Aggravation of economic crisis Fragility of political system

4. KPD Little support 1924-28

5. KPD Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Roter Frontkämpferbund

6. Ernst Thälmann

7. KPD Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Roter Frontkämpferbund Loyal to Moscow and Comintern

8. „Bloody May“ 1929

9. KPD Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Roter Frontkämpferbund Loyal to Moscow and Comintern Perceives SPD as „social fascists“ – split in 1929

10. KPD Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Roter Frontkämpferbund Loyal to Moscow and Comintern Perceives SPD as „social fascists“ – split in 1929 Members: 1930: 130,000 1932: 300,000

11. KPD NSDAP Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Roter Frontkämpferbund Loyal to Moscow and Comintern Perceives SPD as „social fascists“ – split in 1929 Members: 1930: 130,000 1932: 300,000 Little support 1924-28

12. KPD NSDAP Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Roter Frontkämpferbund Loyal to Moscow and Comintern Perceives SPD as „social fascists“ – split in 1929 Members: 1930: 130,000 1932: 300,000 Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Sturmabteilung (SA)

13. Sturmabteilung

14. KPD NSDAP Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Roter Frontkämpferbund Loyal to Moscow and Comintern Perceives SPD as „social fascists“ – split in 1929 Members: 1930: 130,000 1932: 300,000 Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Sturmabteilung (SA) Start-up in 1925, Focus on Hitler

15. KPD NSDAP Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Roter Frontkämpferbund Loyal to Moscow and Comintern Perceives SPD as „social fascists“ – split in 1929 Members: 1930: 130,000 1932: 300,000 Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Sturmabteilung (SA) Start-up in 1925, Focus on Hitler Seeks power by legal means

16. KPD NSDAP Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Roter Frontkämpferbund Loyal to Moscow and the Comintern Perceives SPD as „social fascists“ – split in 1929 Members: 1930: 130,000 1932: 300,000 Little support 1924-28 Paramilitary organisation: Sturmabteilung (SA) Start-up in 1925, Focus on Hitler Seeks power by legal means Members: 1930: 130,000 1932: 450,000 Jan. 1933: 720,000

17. Public transport strike in Berlin, November 1932

18. Right to work Abolition of child labour Old-age-pension-system Confiscation of war profits

21. Nazi economic programme State socialism: Economy serves the people, not the individual State oversees direction of economy

22. Nazi economic programme State socialism: Economy serves the people, not the individual State oversees direction of economy Autarkic economic development: Self-sufficiency through Lebensraum in Central Europe

23. Nazi economic programme State socialism: Economy serves the people, not the individual State oversees direction of economy Autarkic economic development: Self-sufficiency through Lebensraum in Central Europe Direct state intervention in monetary matters: Public investment Cheap money policy Investing in capital goods

24. Workers attracted by the Nazis Nationalistic workers

25. Workers attracted by the Nazis Nationalistic workers Workers of the domestic / stagnant sector

26. Workers attracted by the Nazis Nationalistic workers Workers of the domestic / stagnant sector Unemployed workers

27. Workers attracted by the Nazis Nationalistic workers Workers of the domestic / stagnant sector Unemployed workers Workers with the desire for social mobility

29. Persecution of the KPD 2. Feb 1933: assembly ban on KPD

30. Persecution of the KPD 2. Feb 1933: assembly ban on KPD 17. Feb. 1933: firearms can be used

31. Persecution of the KPD 2. Feb 1933: assembly ban on KPD 17. Feb. 1933: firearms can be used 24. Feb 1933: headquarters of KPD closed

32. Persecution of the KPD 2. Feb 1933: assembly ban on KPD 17. Feb. 1933: firearms can be used 24. Feb 1933: headquarters of KPD closed 28.Feb. 1933: burning of the Reichstag blamed on KPD – Emergency Decree

33. Persecution of the KPD 2. Feb 1933: assembly ban on KPD 17. Feb. 1933: firearms can be used 24. Feb 1933: headquarters of KPD closed 28.Feb. 1933: burning of the Reichstag blamed on KPD – Emergency Decree 7. April 1933: Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service

34. Persecution of the KPD 2. Feb 1933: assembly ban on KPD 17. Feb. 1933: firearms can be used 24. Feb 1933: headquarters of KPD closed 28.Feb. 1933: burning of the Reichstag blamed on KPD – Emergency Decree 7. April 1933: Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service 1. May 1933: „Marxism is dead“

35. Persecution of the SPD 8. Mar 1933: occupation of trade union buildings, arrest of functionaries

36. Persecution of the SPD 8. Mar 1933: occupation of trade union buildings, arrest of functionaries 10. Mar 1933: arrest of SPD politicians (leaders, deputies, mayors)

37. Persecution of the SPD 8. Mar 1933: occupation of trade union buildings, arrest of functionaries 10. Mar 1933: arrest of SPD politicians (leaders, deputies, mayors) 11.Mar 1933: occupation of Reichsbanner headquarters, arrest of trade union leaders

38. Persecution of the SPD 8. Mar 1933: occupation of trade union buildings, arrest of functionaries 10. Mar 1933: arrest of SPD politicians (leaders, deputies, mayors) 11.Mar 1933: occupation of Reichsbanner headquarters, arrest of trade union leaders 22. Jun 1933: SPD enemy of the state, all remaining socialists arrested