Nazi Party
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- Created on: 07-03-17 17:17
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- Rise of Hitler and Nazi party.
- Great Depresion
- Wall street crash - US economy crashed and thous depending on it - German economy depended on US loans and soon weaknesses were reveled.
- Unemployment rose from 1m to 6m with hours and wages cut.
- millions went Hungary and homeless.
- Middle class people lost their savings.
- Coalition Gov collapsed no one could agree on what to do. President Hindenburg appointed Bruning as Chancellor but not many supporters so ruled by decree.
- Political confusion led to people joining extremist Parties
- Workers supported communists KPD and Nazis.
- Growth of communist worried rich so they helped fund propaganda for Nazis in 1932 elections.
- Main aims of Nazi Party.
- German Workers Party set up DAP Hitler went to one of their meetings and joined soon became leader.
- He changed name to NSDAP and adopted 25 point program.
- Some of the points were 1. Scrape teaty of Versailles 2. remove all Jews from Germany 3. expand German Borders to give more 'living space'
- Swastika became their emblem.
- Set up SA - storm-troopers Brown shirted ex-soldiers went around attaching left wing parties.
- Soon had 50,000 members revived some donations from businesses
- Munich Putsch
- When occupation of Ruhr was called of nationalists were furious.
- Hitler wanted power so wanted to marched on Berlin.
- this was unsuccessful.
- Nov 1923 Nazis held meetings in a old beer hall
- supported by General Ludendorff he went ahead with plans - beer hall putsch failed and march was stopped by army.
- One police man was killed and 16 Nazis.
- Hitler ran away but was soon arrested. he was put on trial and allowed to give speeches which were widely reported across Germany. and given 5 years but only served 9 months.
- One police man was killed and 16 Nazis.
- Putsch gave Nazis a lot of national attention.
- Hitler reorganizes the Partey
- 1925 relaunched the Party in his power.
- Whilst in jail Hitler wrote a book called Mein Kampf expressing his view which helped spread Nazism.
- Main ideas were nationalism,socialism, racial purity , lebensraum and traditional conversation-al values.
- Special sections set up for Hitler youth, teachers, farming and students to attract more people to the party.
- Party branches were set up around Germany.
- 1926 Gobbles took control of propaganda by 1928 there was around 100,000 members.
- Hitler realised if he wanted power he would have to stand for elections but he learnt from the Munich Putsch that he needed support of army and wealthy people
- but in stead he set up black shirted ** troops in 1925 as his personal elite guards and use them to attack opponents - Himmler became head in 1929.
- Who supported the Nazis.
- Working classes were attracted by the promise of 'food and work'
- The ideas of return to 'strong Germany'
- middle class had lost there savings and wanted a strong leader to remedy the problem
- wanted a return to traditional moral values.
- Farmers were worried the communist would take there land away.
- big business worried about communists
- Nazis offered somthing for every one
- young attracted by exciting speeches and promised families would be best looked after by the Nazis - this attracted Woman
- Great Depresion
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