Nazi Germany - The Munich Putsch

Nazi Germany - The Munich Putsch

Nazi Ideology:

• Lebensraum - living space, German nation needs to expand
• A strong Germany - abolish Treaty of Versailles & unite all German speaking people
• Fuhrer - one leader with complete power, not democracy
• Social Darwinism - idea that Aryan race was superior and Jews were 'subhuman'
• Autarky - Germany should be economically self-sufficient
• Germany was in danger - from Communists and Jews, had to be destroyed
• Had socialist, nationalist, racist and fascist policies

Munich Putsch:

• Organised a revolution with Kahr and Lossow, two nationalist politicians, but they called it off at the last minute
• Hitler had already organised 3000 storm troopers (SA) so it was a difficult situation
• On 8th November 1923 Kahr and Lossow were holding a meeting at the Beer Hall in Munich
• Hitler went there with 600 SA members and forced them to agree to rebel by waving a gun at them, he said that he would form a new government with General Ludendorff (hadn't told him)
• The…