ADOLF HITLER INTERNAL

AND EXTERNAL POLICIES

BY

DARAKHSHAN

SHAIKH

ADOLF HITLER INTERNAL AND

EXTERNAL POLICIES

When Hitler came to power Germany was hopelessly broke. The Treaty of Versailles had imposed crushing reparations on the German people

Hitler was also the leader of NAZI party

Anti-Communist (wanted a strong middle class and large land ownership

Anti-capitalism (big businesses become part of the state

INTERNAL POLICY OF HITLER

Hitler prepared his policy

in 1921 as the leader of

NAZI PARTY

Hitler gave to the German

a high-sounding program

of 25 points (Program of

the NSDAP)

HITLER'S OVERALL AIMS IN TERMS OF INTERNAL

POLICY

(people's community) to Build a classless society

Remove non-Nazi influences

Shaping the attitudes of the population to support

Hitler's aims

Focus on military

Create loyalty and willingness to sacrifice to greater

good of nation

"Separate spheres" boys were to be strong fighters

girls were to bear children

Against Jews

Promote culture and arts

METHODS TO ACHIEVE THEM

Hitler announced that German parliament is only

for NAZI PARTY

Nazis took over every aspect of German life

political, social, economic, cultural

Strikes were forbidden and labor unions abolished

The Nuremberg Laws (1935) deprived Jews of their

citizenship . Jews were constant victims of violence

oHitler promised and delivered economic

recovery through public works projects

o In 1933, Hitler ordered his army generals to

prepare the army and army would

be increased to 550,000 men and German army

included in the list of best world armies

oHitler make education system which is totally

based on Nazism ideology

oNews papers were under the control of Nazis

Teacher taught philosophy of NAZI party before teaching them

Modernist paintings were removed form art gallery

Radios were limited to play only cultural songs

97% of teachers joined the Nazi Teacher's League in 1937

HITLER ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT

If parents are not able to make their children well

educated take their children from them and

government took the responsibility of their education

o Reduced the amount of women in

employment - Married women were

excluded from the civil service and other

professions

o Motherhood skills were taught by the

"Women's Enterprise" (DFW)

o Medals ("Honor Cross of the German

Mother") any women who had more than

8 children received a gold medal from

Hitler personally

THE EUTHANSIA PROGRAMME IN 1939

5000 children were killed by starvation or

lethal injections. 71,000 adults were killed by

injections or gassing. In 1941, Hitler stopped

the program in the face of protests started by

the Catholics.

HITLER BLAMED THE JEWS FOR

1. Germany's defeat in

1918

2. The inflation of 1923

3. The economic

collapse of 1929-1932

4. In schools children

were taught to hate

Jews,

5. Nazi-controlled

newspapers and

magazines bombarded

adults

ECONOMIC PLANNING

Removed or controlled opposition

Reduced un employment public

works increase

Compulsory national labor

serious

DID PEOPLES WERE HAPPY BY THE POLICY

OF HILTER????

FOREIGN POLICY AIMS

Revise treaty of Versailles want to achieve dominant

position in Europe German re-armament -

necessary for expansion and international status

unite all germanPromote Nazi ideology to the

world

GERMAN NON-AGGRESSION PACT WITH POLAND

JANUARY 1934

In 1934 Germany signed a Non-Aggression Pact

and then a trade agreement with Poland. This

included an end to previous border disputes,

agreement to negotiate differences and a ten year

non-aggression treaty. This stabilized Germany's

eastern borders and gave Hitler time to continue

rearmament and focus on other aspects of Nazi

foreign policy. Five years later Germany would

officially end the treaty and invade Poland

(September 1, 1939)

RETURN OF THE SAAR JANUARY 1935

The Treaty of Versailles had given France

control of the resource rich Saar region for 15

years. In 1935 an independent and observed

area gave a 90% vote to rejoin Germany. This

gave Germany access to a small population but

the richest coal basin in Europe. Part of the

German weapons and chemical production

industries had been in the Saar since the

1870's.

REARMAMENT MARCH 1935

In March 1935, Hitler publicly announced

Nazi Germany's military status and plans

- which broke the terms of the Versailles

treaty. Germany had 2,500 war planes

an army of 300,000 men and army target

of 550,000 men.

ANGLO-GERMAN NAVAL AGREEMENT 18 JUNE

1935

The Treaty of Versailles had also limited the

German navy to only six warships over 10 000 tons

and banned any submarines

And then In June 1935 the Anglo-German Naval

Agreement was signed. This allowed Germany to

have one third of the tonnage of the British navy's

surface fleet

REMILITARIZATION OF THE RHINELAND

In October 1935 Mussolini's Italy

had invaded Abyssinia (present-day

Ethiopia) in North Africa. This

encouraged Hitler to implement the

first stage of his expansionist plan in

the Rhineland to gain more territory,

resources and increase the power

of a rearmed Germany under a Nazi

leader.

SPANISH CIVIL WAR JULY 1936

Germany and Italy supported the fascist rebels

and the Soviet Union supported the Republican

government. This was a conflict between two

political ideologies.

ALLIANCES WITH ITALY AND JAPAN 1936

Germany and Japan agreement which

specifically agreed to oppose communism

and give military support to each other

In 1937 Italy also joint them

against France and Russia

THE ANSCHLUSS MARCH 1938

.

oBy 1938, Hitler felt strong enough to plan a

union or Anschluss with Austria. This was

part of his aim to unite all German-speaking

people in one country. It was forbidden by

the Treaty of Versailles so Hitler had to plan

very carefully.

oHaving succeeded in gaining Austria, Hitler

then used similar tactics to gain the

Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia that

contained over three million Germans.

The Munich Agreement September 1938

Hitler demanded the right to occupy the part of

Czechoslovakia with around 3 million Germans. The

four power conference at Munich between Germany,

Britain, France and Italy tried to solve the crises.

Hitler argue was it would be the last territorial claim

of Germany in Europe, and agreement signed

European back home confident that diplomatic

appeasement had stopped a major war.

GERMANY OCCUPIES THE REST OF

CZECHOSLOVAKIA MARCH 1939

The German military occupied more of

Czechoslovakia and broke the Munich

Agreement from seven months earlier.

1939. The Germans

demanded that

Lithuania give up

Memel Territory

NAZI-SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT 23 AUGUST

1939

Germany and Russia both signed the non

aggression pack

by this act Britain and France against

German

USSR INVASIONS OF EAST POLAND (SEPT.

17, 1939)

USSR invades Eastern Poland as part of its secret

agreement with the Nazis

THE FINAL STEP - INVASION OF POLAND

SEPTEMBER 1939

o On September 1, 1939, Germany

invaded Poland

oIn the mid and late 1930s, France

and especially Britain followed a

foreign policy of appeasement. The

objective of this policy was to

maintain peace in Europe

o

On 2 September Britain and France

came to the help of Poland and its

beginning to ww2

End of Hitler