1. The Rise of the National Socialism
and the end of the Weimar republic
1923-1935
Electionposter 1924: Germanys liberation

2. Results of the Reich parliament
elections

3. Hitler putsch 09.11.1923
● Hitler´s try to use the
national movement in
Munich to putch
against the state
parlament
● Resultats: putsch fails; Hitler was judged to
5years of prison, but was freed after 9 months
● NSDAP were forbidden, but reorganised itself
● During the process Hitler became known to the
people

4. The Golden 20s
● Rebuilding and expansion of the economy
through american credits (1924 Dawes-Plan)

5. The Golden 20s
● Rebuilding and expansion of the economy
through american credits (1924 Dawes-Plan)
● End of the foreign-policy isolation
- contracts with Sovjiet Russia (1922, Rapallo),
France (1925, Locarno)
- membership to the League of Nations (1926)
Locarno conference League of Nations Building, Geneva

6. The Golden 20s
● Rebuilding and expansion of the economy
through american credits (1924 Dawes-Plan)
● End of the foreign-policy isolation
- contracts with Sovjiet Russia (1922, Rapallo),
France (1925, Locarno)
- membership to the League of Nations (1926)
● Social changes in all levels of the society
- the „new woman“, Jazz-music, new medias
(radio, cinema)

8. Great Depression 1928/30
● economical situation
changed in the US
● banks reclaim there
credits to Europe
● worldwide recession
and large-scale
unemployment people trying to catch their
money from the bank, Berlin
● destabilation of the 1931
political climate

9. Election posters of the NSDAP

10. Election posters of the NSDAP

11. Election posters of the NSDAP

12. Election posters of the NSDAP

13. Election posters of the NSDAP

14. 30.01.1933 Hitler nominated as
Reichskanzler
● Reichs president Hindenburg nominated Hitler
against his previous beliefs as Reichskanzler,
as consequence from the political crisis
● proclamation of a new parliament election with
the aim to reach a 50% majority
● NSDAP missed the absolute majority, but starts
to establish a dictator

15. Characteristics of a dictaturship
● limited freedom of press and opinion (4.2.1933)
● limited civil rights (28.2.1933)
● one-party rule (24.3./14.6.1933)
● control over police,intelligence service and
military (2.8.1934)
● to propagate a clear enemy image
● elimination inner and external critics

16. Nürnberger laws (arier laws)
● no marriages
between germans
and jews
● Categorizing of jews
● loss of the voting right
● loss of jobs as
officials
pictures of „german“ races