Hitler

=Hitler and Germany=

__Reason for Hitler's rise to power:__
- Kaiser abdicated because of the fear of Communism -1932- 5 million germans out of work. family had no means of support

-depression affected popularity

-fear of starvation

-high crime rate. Germany was uncomfortable, unsafe

-weak government (Germans did not chose a Republic)

-Article 48- In the event of crisis, the constitution could be suspended.

-Germans wanted to feel proud

-Germany was treaty like a vanquished nation- Guilt Clause 231

- Organization. by 1926.
 * 1) Brown shirts-kreikorps. beat up communists. They were the original Nazi
 * 2) Black Shirts- SS. Hitler's bodyguards. 1928
 * 3) HItler Youth
 * 4) Nazi German League
 * 5) Nazi Teacher League
 * 6) Nazi women's League
 * 7) Nazi physicians League

-Gaus- district

-Gauleiter- district leader- organizing

-propaganda

-Cronies

-Joseph Goebbels was in charge of the propaganda

-Herman Goerring- successful businessman. genius. He was in charge of the Lufftwaffe

Rudoph Hesse- bodyguard- Captured in Britain

In 1928, 100 000 Germans were loyal to him

Hitler's message
 * 1) Traditional German values
 * 2) anti-semitism
 * 3) nationalism
 * 4) Scapegoats- Jews, November Criminals
 * 5) ToV
 * 6) promised economic recovery

Political Machinations Hitler ran for president in 1932 against Von Hindenburg

Chancellors:
 * 1) 1932- Von Hindenburg fired Heinrich Bruning beause he would not give money to the economy.
 * 2) Franz von Papen replaced Bruning and gave tons of money to the German Economy to reduce the Nazi seats.
 * 3) Nazi and Communists teamed up to stop him
 * 4) Heindenburg replaced Von Papen with Scheicher. Von Papen was outraged and asked Hindenburg if Hitler could be Chancellor

The Reichstag fire: - THe Reichstag was built in 1894. It was the German imperial parliament -February 27 1933, the Reichstag was set ablaze by Marius Van der Lubbe -investigation came to the conclusion that he acted alone, but Goering thought it were the communists -Hindenburg set a state of emergency

The enabling act of 1933- outlawed all other parties. suspended:
 * 1) free expression of opinion
 * 2) freedom of press
 * 3) right to privacy
 * 4) protector and unlawful searches
 * 5) individual proterties rights
 * 6) states right of self government


 * 1) Night of Long knives: June 1934. purge of the SA. Ernst Roehm criticized the German military. He wanted to merge the military and the SA. Hitler sent him and other leaders on a holliday in the hopes to catch Roehm in an awkward position. Hitlers sent troops to kill everyone on a holliday

September 1935- Nuremberg Laws. anti-semetic policies. Germans were not Jewish. Marriage between Jews and non Jews was illegal. Germans could not employ a jew.Jews could not fly German flags and cannot consider themselves Germans.

__Hitler's foreign policy__ 1935- rearmament aggressive facist party. announced that he wanted to rearm the Luftwaffe.

Germans had the best training force

Chamberlein used the policy of appeasement

1937, Hossbach Memorandum. Lebenstraum- "Living space" Germany needed to expand.

Anschlues- 1938. annexation of Austria by Germany. Germany claimed that Austria wanted to be annexed. Stalin was upset. Chamberlein used appeasement. Munich Conference: September 1938. involving the Sudetenland. Leaders of France and Britain gave away Sudethenland to stop a war.

March 1939- Hitler took Chesoslovakia.

Non-Aggression Pact between Stalin and Hitler. They would not fight and they would split Poland. Stalin would get Estonia, Lethuia, Lithuania. They invaded Poland in September 1939. The invasion was the start of WWII.