HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY

Junior Cert History- 3rd Year

Early career

Austrian Blamed Jews for art failure

in Vienna Dispatch rider in German

army. 2 Iron crosses. Wounded twice.

Joined Nazi party as gov spy. Became leader.

Munich Putsch. Trial and Jail (Mein Kampf)

Hitler’s Ideas

Superior Aryan Race must be kept clean.

Lebensraum Jews undermining

Germany Anti-Communist Abolish Versailles Weimar weak

Why Nazism became popular.

Weak governments Economic problems Great depression Popular policies on

Versailles, Communism, Jews.

Violence. SA ‘Brownshirts’ (Rohm) SS and Gestapo (Himmler)

Propaganda Hitler’s personality

(speeches)

Becoming a dictator

More popular in 1930s. Elected Chancellor in 1933.

SA and SS beat up opponents

Reichstag fire = banned socialists

Enabling law = rule by decree

Banned all other parties. Became Fuhrer (leader).

Propaganda

Goebbles was minister in charge

Strict censorship Mass rallies Olympic games Books burned and

rewritten Hitler Youth. League of

German Maidens (BDM)

Successes at home

6 million found jobs in 3 years

Autobahns Volkswagen Rearmament

The Jews

Anti-Semitism Nuremberg laws (no

citizenship, no intermarriage, star of David)

Crystal Night Ghettoes Final Solution.