WEIMAR AND NAZI GERMANY

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  • Weimar and Nazi Germany
    • 1 Formation
      • Weimar Constitution
        • -proportional representation -president (article 48- emergency           powers      -chancellor
      • Treaty of Versailles
        • G- Guilt      A- army redued to 100000 ,     R-reperation 6.6billion         G- Germans lost land - Ruhr, Prussia   LE-  banned from league of nations
    • Crisis
      • Revolts from the left
        • Sparticus Revolt (1919)   Ruhr Uprising(1920)
      • Revolts from the right
        • Kapp Pustch    (1920)   Munich Pustch (1923)
          • failure of the Munich Pustch: - lack of support (2000 volunteers + 1000 SA) , Bavarian Army, Ludendorff, Hitler's pride
      • The Ruhr + Hyperinflatin
        • 1923- French occupied  = passive resistance from workers= hyperinflation eg bread=480B
    • Golden Years
      • Gustav Stressman
        • D- deals (Dawes Plan 1924- loans from USA)(Young Plan 1929- 6.6B to 2B)                  I- inflation controlled         F- French leave Ruhr        F- foreign affairs improved          R- reforms of welfare and labour exchange
      • Culture
        • Artists- Gropius= expressionism, Bauhaus Architecture=modern Germany
    • Collapse
      • Wall street crash
        • over 30% unemployed , Bruning failure to respond
      • Article 48 + Reichstag decline
        • article used 115 times in 2 years, Reichstag used only 13 times in 1932
      • Social Unrest ad suffering
        • ppl turned to street violence red front fighters(communist version of SA) , poverty stricken - food from soup kitchens
    • Rise of NS 1919-28
      • Hitles' court case
        • wrote Mein Kampf.and support grew  sentence for 5 years but left after 9 months         (1925)
      • Election results
        • 1924- 32           1928     (after putsch)-12 seats
    • Rise of NS 1929-33
      • propoganda
        • reject TOV + communism, strong leadership, antisemitism, fix economy, expand borders
      • political intrigue
        • Von Papen (1932)- convinced Htler into office to use him as a puppet but failed
      • Reichstag Fire + Enabling Act
        • catholic centre part won over, communists blamed as terrorists
    • Terror
      • Night of the long knives
        • Strasser, Rohm,Kahr killed, Papen arrested
      • The terror state
        • Gustapo and SD established ( worked for himler), 3.5M non jews in cambs by 1945, 77k germans killed for political offfence
      • opposition group
        • former socialists and communists vs members of churches / some army officers who planned coups vs swing youth/ lone wolves vs edelweiss pirates
    • Propoganda
      • Goebbels propaganda machine
        • radio, 1936 Olympics, traditional art
      • censorship and control
        • banned jazz, modern art, newspapers and journalism , books burned
      • KDF
        • 25m members by 1939, cheaper holidays
    • Life in Nazi
      • Hitler Youth
        • 4million by 1936
      • children, kitchen , church
        • 1000 RM to child bear , women, still 7m employed
      • standard of living
        • longer working hrs, fewer wages , fewer luxuries
    • Persecution
      • Kristallnacht (the night of the of the broken glass)
        • vandalised homes and businesses of jews

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