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Adolf Hitler: Rise to Power. Hitler Gloats Over Victories.mov. Hitler’s Plan for the Third Reich. ‘Mein Kampf ’ = ‘My Struggle’ Extreme nationalism Unite all German-speaking people in an Empire, The Third Reich including: Dutch, Scandinavians, English, half of Belgiums - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Hitler Gloats Over Victories.mov
Adolf Hitler: Rise to Power
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Hitler’s Plan for the Third Reich• ‘Mein Kampf’ = ‘My Struggle’• Extreme nationalism• Unite all German-speaking people in
an Empire, The Third Reich including:– Dutch, Scandinavians, English, half of Belgiums– Germans in Austria, Poland, Sudetenland
• Expand territory, Lebensraum, into Russia, Ukraine
• Enforce racial “purification”– Most loathsome: Jews– Master race prevails
• Anti-Democracy
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Plan for Power• While in prison
decided Nazis must use legal means to come to power
• Propaganda– Goebbels– Symbolism– Mass media– Attack current gov’t
• Offered differing solutions to differing groups
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Weimar Germany & the Depression• Germany living on borrowed money,
investments which have not had time to payoff
• US difficulties lead to US banks not loaning money to Germany & asking for repayments
• Consumers stop buying German exports• Businesses go under or layoff workers,
massive unemployment results• Germany’s many political parties cannot
agree on how to resolve the situation
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SA & SS Celebrate January 30th, 1933Hitler Appointed Chancellor
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Reichstag Fire• Hitler immediately calls
for new elections• SA & SS attack left-wing
supporters• Hitler rants against
Communism• Goebbels turns up
propaganda• And then…the
Reichstag burns
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Aftermath of Reichstag Fire• Blamed on Communists
– Dutchman & former Communist arrested
– Tried & executed• Hitler ‘whips up’ anti-
Communist support• SA harasses Communists &
Socialists at will– Beaten, killed, offices
destroyed, meetings broken-up• Goering, Nazi Minister of
Interior deputizes 50,000 SA men
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Big Business Support
• At this point money pouring into Nazi Party from big business
• Hitler held meeting with industrialists
• Why the support?
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New Reichstag Elections• Nazis win 288 seats just short of
majority• Outlawed Communist Party
– Now had majority• Enabling Bill
– SS outside & SA inside chanting ‘we want the bill or fire and murder’
– The Reichstag voted itself out of existence
– Centre Party supported in exchange for religious protections
– Only SPD opposed
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Enabling Act and its Effects• The Enabling Act gave Hitler the right to suspend civil
rights and liberties in Germany until the crisis passed• Hitler to rule by decree for 4 years– What he says is now law
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Consolidation of Power• Gleichschaltung
– ‘Bringing into line’• Nazification of Germany• Purge of ‘unreliables’
– Socialists, jews, opposition– Lost jobs as teachers, civil
servants, lawyers• SA carries out the violence
– Violence of SA grew almost beyond Hitler’s control
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1st Concentration Camp
• Summer of 1934 ~27,000 prisoners in concentration camps
• 1st Concentration Camp: Dachau– Near Munich
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Gleichschaltung: Elimination of Political Parties
• All parties either outlawed or forced to disband via SA intimidation
• Reichstag remained but just for show
• July 1933: Law Against the Formation of Parties
• Nazi Party only legal party in Germany
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Gleichschaltung:
• State governments abolished
• Replaced by 18 Nazi governors
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Army vs SA• SA, so valuable to Hitler in
gaining power, was now falling out of his control– ~ 1,000,000 men
• SA, under Ernst Rohm, wanted to continue the revolution via violent means– Left was crushed, now turn to
right– SA making Hitler look bad
• SA seeking more power, takeover of entire army
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Purge of SA: Why?• Army liked much of what
they saw in Hitler– However, they hated the idea
of being turned over to the S.A. and Ernst Rohm.
– Considered SA to be a bunch of thugs
• Army suggested loyalty to Hitler if SA not put in charge
• Hitler needed the Army for future plans
• Rohm had to go for Hitler to have the Army.
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Night of the Long Knives• June 29- July 1, 1934• SS, Hitler’s personal
bodyguard, used to eliminate opposition
• 100 SA leaders murdered– Including Ernst Rohm
• Many other political opponents also murdered– Von Schleicher & von Kahr– Social Dems– ‘Undesirables’ like anti-Nazi
religious leaders• Army swore loyalty to Hitler
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Hindenburg• Hindenburg dies August
1934• Hitler combines
chancellor & president• Becomes Fuhrer• SS, under Himmler,
established as main instrument of terror
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Hindenburg’s FuneralTannenburg Memorial: site of Hindenburg’s famous WWI victory
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Hitler becomes the Fuhrer