Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
The Great Depression:
Unemployment high
Many angry workers
Hitler, like Roosevelt provided jobs and helped the economy recover through
making work such as projects(eg. Autobahn)
Fascist’s build armies
The Beginning of the Nazi Party:
1920 Hitler joined the German Workers party (Anti-Weimar Republic)
He soon became its leader
Changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI)
This party created the brownshirted S.A. led by Ernst Rohm a paramilitary force designed after Mussolini’s blackshirts
1928, 12 Nazis are elected to the Reichstag
Brown Shirts:
Hitler’s henchmen
Used throughout the late 20’s and early 30’s to harrass opposition parties unmercifully
Led by Ernst Rohm
After Hitler is elected many are appointed auxiliary police
The Burning of the Reichstag:
February 1933
Dutch communist ‘convicted of the crime’
Hitler bullies (with the help of the Brownshirts) the Reichstag into passing the enabling act to face the coming ‘communist revolution’
The Enabling Act:
Agreed to by the Reichstag in 1933 under threats from the brownshirts (S.A.)
Only 93 Social Democrats voted against it
Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag
Despite the lack of freedom of speech or press Hitler only won 288 seats, barely a majority
By July 1933 all other political parties are outlawed
Steps taken to power:
•1928
- 12 members of Nazi party elected to Reichstag
•1930
- 107 seats out of 647
•1932
- 230 seats out of 647 which made them the largest party
•President Hindenburg refused to give Hitler the Chancellorship
•1932 (second election) Nazis fall to 198 seats
•Hindenburg chooses Hitler as Chancellor as a tool against the Communists
•1933 Feb. (Reichstag fire election) 288 seats (majority due to imprisonment of Communist members)
•1933 March Enabling Act
•Forms the Gestapo (secret police)
The Night of the Long Knives:
30 June 1934 those killed were:
•Any who would be internal challengers were murdered
•Ernst Rohm leader of S.A.
•All ‘socialists’, whom he’d only adopted for electoral reasons
•He declared the Shutzstaffel (S.S.) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by Hindenburg
•A month later Hindenburg dies and an ‘election’ was held which voted Hitler in as President
Unemployment high
Many angry workers
Hitler, like Roosevelt provided jobs and helped the economy recover through
making work such as projects(eg. Autobahn)
Fascist’s build armies
The Beginning of the Nazi Party:
1920 Hitler joined the German Workers party (Anti-Weimar Republic)
He soon became its leader
Changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI)
This party created the brownshirted S.A. led by Ernst Rohm a paramilitary force designed after Mussolini’s blackshirts
1928, 12 Nazis are elected to the Reichstag
Brown Shirts:
Hitler’s henchmen
Used throughout the late 20’s and early 30’s to harrass opposition parties unmercifully
Led by Ernst Rohm
After Hitler is elected many are appointed auxiliary police
The Burning of the Reichstag:
February 1933
Dutch communist ‘convicted of the crime’
Hitler bullies (with the help of the Brownshirts) the Reichstag into passing the enabling act to face the coming ‘communist revolution’
The Enabling Act:
Agreed to by the Reichstag in 1933 under threats from the brownshirts (S.A.)
Only 93 Social Democrats voted against it
Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag
Despite the lack of freedom of speech or press Hitler only won 288 seats, barely a majority
By July 1933 all other political parties are outlawed
Steps taken to power:
•1928
- 12 members of Nazi party elected to Reichstag
•1930
- 107 seats out of 647
•1932
- 230 seats out of 647 which made them the largest party
•President Hindenburg refused to give Hitler the Chancellorship
•1932 (second election) Nazis fall to 198 seats
•Hindenburg chooses Hitler as Chancellor as a tool against the Communists
•1933 Feb. (Reichstag fire election) 288 seats (majority due to imprisonment of Communist members)
•1933 March Enabling Act
•Forms the Gestapo (secret police)
The Night of the Long Knives:
30 June 1934 those killed were:
•Any who would be internal challengers were murdered
•Ernst Rohm leader of S.A.
•All ‘socialists’, whom he’d only adopted for electoral reasons
•He declared the Shutzstaffel (S.S.) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by Hindenburg
•A month later Hindenburg dies and an ‘election’ was held which voted Hitler in as President