The Establishment of the Nazi party
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- Created on: 08-06-19 18:45
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- The Establishment of the Nazi Party
- The Nazi Party
- Wanted the removal of the 'November criminals' from government
- Wanted to continue passive resistance
- Hitler wanted a 'march on Berlin'
- Adolf Hitler
- Born in Austria April 1988
- Grew up believing that all Germans should be united in a greater German Reich
- Spent the war as a soldier on the Western front
- He was outraged by the Armistice and believed that Germany had been 'stabbed in the back'
- Worked for the army after the war
- He was sent to investigate a small party - the 'German Workers' Party'
- Joined the German Workers' Party
- In 1920 the party changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers' party (NSDAP)
- In 1921 Hitler became the party's leader
- The party became dedicated to overthrowing the Republic + replacing it with nazi dictatorship
- However the group was still very unknown
- The party became dedicated to overthrowing the Republic + replacing it with nazi dictatorship
- Munich Beer hall Putsch
- November 1923 - Hitler made an attempt to win power
- Hitler secured the support of Ludendorff
- Hitler burst into the beer hall in Munich where Ritter Von Kahr + Otto Von Lossow where the 2 were addressing a meeting of 2000
- He surrounded it with his stormtroopers (SA) and announced that the revolution had begun
- Kahr and Von Lossow were persuaded at gunpoint to agree to his plan to march on Berlin
- However their support dissolved overnight
- The SA could not gain control of the Munich army barracks - Hitler's original plan had failed
- They marched through Munich anyway - a gunfight with the police ensued
- Hitler was captured by police, Ludendorff surrendered himself
- The Nazi Party
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