hitlers rise to power
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- Created on: 26-03-19 19:55
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- hitlers rise to power
- wealthy businessmen-frightened by increase in support for the communists, they finance Hitler and the Nazis
- the middle class- alarmed by the failure of democracy, decided that the country needed a strong government and gave their votes to Hitler
- nationalists- blamed the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles and reparations for causing the depression, so lent their support to the Nazis
- rural areas-Nazi support was particularly strong amongst both middle class shopkeepers and artisans, farmers and agricultural labourers
- The effects of propaganda
- The Führer cult-Hitler was always portrayed as Germany’s saviour /the man who would rescue the country from the grip of depression.
- Volksgemeinschaft (people’s community)-the idea that the Nazis would create one German community, would make religion or social class less relevant to people.
- Scapegoating the Jews-Jews were often portrayed as sub human, or a threat to the racial purity/ economic future of the country.
- The work of the SA
- intimidating the Nazis’ political opponents (especially the communists) by turning up at their meetings and attacking them
- providing opportunities for young, unemployed men to become involved in the party
- protecting Hitler and other key Nazis when they organised meetings and made speeches
- the creation of a dictatorship
- Local government was reorganised – Nazi Party officials put in charge of each area of Germany.
- Trade unions were abolished, their leaders arrested.
- A Concordat was signed with the Pope, allowed Hitler to increase his power in Germany without opposition from the Church, as long as he left the Church alone.
- People's courts: Hitler set up the Nazi people's courts where judges had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Nazis.
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