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27: How would the Nazis run and control Germany?
28: How the Nazis became so popular
29: How the depression helped the Nazis?
30: How Hitler got the Enabling Act (law) passed?
31: How far did the Weimer Republic recover from 1925-1929?
32: How did the Nazis make the Volk (Aryan Community)?
33: How did the Nazis change tactics from 1924-1929?
34: How did the depression weaken the Weimer government?
35: How did Hitler make decisions?
36: How did Hitler become Chancellor?
37: Churches in Nazis Germany
38: Impact of World War Two on Germany (1939-45)
39: Propaganda in Nazi Germany
40: How did the Nazis tackle the economic crisis of 1933?
41: Youth in Nazi Germany
42: Women in Nazi Germany
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26: Nazis
The SA (Storm Troopers)
Hitler's personal army
Young men, some former Freikorps
Dressed in brown (also called Brown Shirts)
Supposed to protect Nazis from opponents trying to harm them
In reality,
27: How would the Nazis run and control Germany?
Dictatorship
One party state
Economic success
· Everyone to have jobs, food, money, holidays etc.
Police state
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28: How the Nazis became so popular
Organization
Well-trained and motivated members
Propaganda (see separate section)
Support of industrialists
Financial support
Use of technology
Radio was used as propaganda device
29: How the depression helped the Nazis?
Government seemed weak, Hitler was strong
Unemployment high, Nazis promised work
Communist threat, SA to combat their violence
30: How Hitler got the Enabling Act (law) passed?
Banned communists from attending
Intimidated members while voting for Enabling Act
SA and SS men in room to intimidate
Huge Nazi posters in Kroll Opera House where assembly was held
SA and SS memb
31: How far did the Weimer Republic recover from 1925-1929?
Foreign Policy
1925 - Locarno treaty
1926 - Germany was allowed to join the League of Nations, got a seat on the council
1929 - Young Plan (Reparations were reduced to 2000 million Pounds)
P
32: How did the Nazis make the Volk (Aryan Community)?
Step 1: Propaganda
Garner resentment against supposed undesirables
Step 2: Sterilization Law - July 1933
Desirables were forcibly sterilized so they couldn't reproduce
Step 3: Concentration camps - 19
33: How did the Nazis change tactics from 1924-1929?
Political (legal means)
Reorganized the party
Winning over the Working class
Public meetings
Anti Jewish message popular
Therefore increased anti Semitic propaganda
Mein Kampf
Became
34: How did the depression weaken the Weimer government?
Unpopular economic policies
Taxes raised
Wages cut
Reduced unemployment benefits
Presidential Rule
Article 48, gave president absolute power
Seemed more like a dictatorship
Old president, w
35: How did Hitler make decisions?
He was unwilling to make decisions
He was uncertain
Wanted to uphold his authority and prestige
He was strongly influenced by advisors
Didn't like any opposition or bad news
36: How did Hitler become Chancellor?
He had a huge following
Used threat of civil war
Nazis vs. communist clashes becoming a problem
Idea was to give him power, but to control him from behind
Reichstag elections: July 1932
Nazis got 3
37: Churches in Nazis Germany
The Nazis were unsure as to whether they needed or wanted the churches
Against
Church had more members than the Nazis
Less likely to worship Hitler, but instead worship god
Christian beliefs may con
38: Impact of World War Two on Germany (1939-45)
1939-41 War goes well for Germany
rationing introduced
2/5 people ate better than before the war due to rationing
clothing/soap rationing introduced
tobacco as valuable as money
First year of war
39: Propaganda in Nazi Germany
Areas of propaganda Goebbels had to deal with in 1935
Newspapers
there was no National paper
regional ones, owned by Jews
Nazi paper was in small circulation
Radio
only local
Goering in Prussia wan
40: How did the Nazis tackle the economic crisis of 1933?
Aims of the Nazi economic policy in 1933
Reduce unemployement
build up armament industry
make Germany economically self sufficient
Problems
difficult to export goods (due to depression)
Germany was
41: Youth in Nazi Germany
The Hitler Youth
wanted to turn the young into loyal Nazis
formed in the 1920's
by 1936 it was impossible not to join
Reich Youth Leader, Baldur con Schirach
League of German Maidens
less important
42: Women in Nazi Germany
Gertude Scholt-Klink - was head of Nazi's Women's Bureau. She had no political power.
1933 the Nazis wante mothers
to reverse decline in birth rate
propaganda campaign to encourage motherhood and lar
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