The document summarizes key aspects of Nazi ideology in Germany in the 1920s-1930s. It describes Hitler taking over the German Workers' Party and changing its name to the Nazi party. The party developed a 25-point program outlining Nazi beliefs, including that Germany should be led by a single Führer with total power, be economically self-sufficient, unite all German-speaking people, and view Jews and Communists as threats. It also promoted the ideas of Lebensraum and Aryan racial superiority. The Nazis appealed to different groups through propaganda posters targeting unemployed people, mothers, racists appealing to anti-Semitism, and the wealthy appealing to fears of Communism.

1. YEAR 10 HISTORY
NAZI GERMANY
1. NAZI IDEOLOGY

2. In 1919, Adolf Hitler joined a
small right-wing group called
the German Workers' Party.
He took over as its leader, and
changed its name to the
National Socialists (Nazis).
The party developed a 25-Point
Programme, which - after the
failure of the Munich Putsch in
1924 - Hitler explained further
in his book 'Mein Kampf'.

4. Führer - there should be a single leader with complete power
rather than a democracy.
Autarky - Germany should be economically self-sufficient.
A strong Germany - the Treaty of Versailles should be abolished
and all German-speaking people united in one country.
Germany in danger - from Communists and Jews, who had to be
destroyed.
Lebensraum - the need for 'living space' for the German nation
to expand.
Social Darwinism - the idea that the Aryan race was superior and
Jews were 'subhuman'.

5. In the 1920s, the Nazis tried to be all things to all people. The
25-Point Programme had policies that were:
• socialist - eg farmers should be given their land, pensions
should improve, and public industries such as electricity and
water should be owned by the state.
• nationalist - all German-speaking people should be united in
one country, the Treaty of Versailles should be abolished,
and there should be special laws for foreigners.
• racist - Jews should not be German citizens and immigration
should be stopped
• fascist - a strong central government and control of the
newspapers

6. • working men who voted Communists
• intellectuals such as students and university professors

7. • Nationalists and racists
• Farmers
• Lower middle-class
people such as plumbers
and shopkeepers who
were worried about the
chaos Germany was in
• Rich people worried by
the threat from
Communism

8. • Hitler put Josef Goebbels in charge of Nazi propaganda.
• Methods of campaigning that the Nazis used in the 1920s
included radio, mass rallies, newspapers (eg 'Der Sturmer'),
Hitler's speeches, and posters.
• The Nazis used crude slogans to introduce these ideas and to
make them appeal to the ordinary people of Germany.

9. • Look at the posters.
• These posters were targeted at specific groups - can you
work out who these posters were meant to appeal to?

10. Poster 1: Unemployed people
Poster 2: Mothers and women
Poster 3: Racists (the picture shows a fat Jewish employer controlling German workers' lives)
Poster 4: Rich people (because they feared that the Communists would nationalise their farms and factories)