Rise to Power
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- Created on: 27-05-18 14:50
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- Rise to Power
- Early Stages
- German Workers' Party
- 1919 - Hitler joined
- Hitler was a passionate speaker
- 1920 - Chief of Propaganda
- 1920 - Re-branded National Socialist German Workers' Party
- "The Nazis"
- Hitler was leader by 1921
- Twenty-Five Point Program
- Abolish Treaty of Versailles
- Only Germans should be citizens
- Anti-Semitic
- 1921 - SA / Storm Troopers
- Political thugs
- German Workers' Party
- Munich Putsch
- 8th/9th November 1923
- Hitler's soldiers occupy Beer Hall
- Announced revolution has begun
- Hitler marches in Munich
- News of revolt leaked to police
- Waiting for Hitler to arrive
- Gunfire is exchanged
- Revolt collapses
- Hitler is sentenced to 5 years
- Only serves 9 months
- Writes 'Mein Kampf' while in prison
- Spread Nazi ideology
- Political tactics changed after Hitler;s release
- 1926 - Bamberg COnference
- Hitler secures leadership
- National framework adopted
- More centralized
- Propaganda
- Centrally controlled
- SA used, after re-establishment in 1926
- Organisations
- 1926 - Hitler Youth
- National Socialist Teachers' League
- 1926 - Bamberg COnference
- Great Depression
- October 1929
- Wall Street Crash
- Germany dependent of US loans
- Dawes Plan
- USA no longer able to give loans
- Want them repaid
- Economy collapsed
- Mass unemployment
- 1932 - 6 million
- Heinrich Bruning
- "Hungry Chancellor"
- March 1930 - Chancellor
- Increased cost of imported food
- Raised food prices
- Salaries / pensions cut
- Taxes increased
- Social Services + benefits cut
- Bruning relied on Article 48
- Policies unpopular
- Rise of the Nazis
- Number of seats
- 1924 = 32 seats
- 1928 = 12 seats
- 1930 = 109 seats
- 1932 = 230 seats
- Nazi appealed to unemployed + young
- Anti-Semitic/Communist views supported
- Used as scapegoats
- Strong, organised, + respected
- Held demonstrations
- Distributed propaganda
- Targetted specific groups
- Number of seats
- Hitler Becomes Chancellor
- Hitler ran against Hindenburg, and lost
- May 1932 - Bruning repaced with Von Papen
- Nazis most popular party in 1932
- Demands to be Chancellor, but refused
- December 1932 - Von Papen replaced with Von Schleicher
- Schleicher tried to cause divisions in Nazis
- Asked Strasser to be Vice-Chancellors
- Papen resented Schleicher
- Papen makes a deal with Hitler
- Papen to persuade Hindenburg to make Hitler chancellor
- Hitler to make Papen vice-chancellor
- Papen makes a deal with Hitler
- Papen argued they could control Hitler
- He was wrong
- January 1933 - Hitler becomes Chencellor
- Early Stages
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