14. Intro
 1923 failed Putsch
 1933 Rise to Power
Weimar Republic
 Power Vacuum
 Paul von Hindenburg
Economic Difficulties
 Paved way for social decent

16. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
 Austrian
 Failed Artist
 Vienna Experience 1908-1913
Vienna’s influences
 George von Shronerer
 Karl Lueger
 Lanz von Liebenfels

18. Munich 1913
 WWI
 Decorated Twice for Bravery
Post WWI Political Activity
 German Worker’s Party
 National Socialist Worker’s Party (Nazi)
 Party Growth
 SA (Sturmabteilung)

20. Beer Hall Putsch 1923
 Failed Attempt
Or did it?
 Turning Point in Hitler’s Career
 Constitutional Means to Gain Power
 Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

24. Rebuilding the Party
 Fuhrerprinzip- single minded party
 National Organization, Intense Growth
 Appeal to Young Men
1929 Elections
 Modest Gains in Reichstag
Depression
 Tool For Success
 Gains made in elections between 1928-1930

31. 1930-33 Move to Power
 Ballot proved elusive
 Gains support of Capitalists
 Fears of Communist Takeover
 Von Hindenburg Names Hitler Chancellor in
January 1933
▪ Franz von Papen former chancellor now vice chancellor
▪ Puppet of Capitalists?

32. Foundations for Power
 Hermann Goring
 Reichstag Fire Feb. 27, 1933
 Creation of Police State
Enabling Act
 Gain Majority of Reichstag
 March 5, 1933

33. Gleichschaltung
 Nazification of Germany
 Anti-Semitism
 “Germany Awake”
 Ernst Rohm
▪ Night of the Long Knives
 Third Reich
▪ 85% Approval

34. Nazi State 1933-1945
 Nationalism
 Mass Demonstrations
 Total Control?
 Economic Success
▪ Not your moms Socialism
▪ Drop in unemployment

35. Nazi Terror
 SS Heinrich Himmler
 Terror and Ideology
 Control of Church
 Hitler Jugend
 Bund deutscher Madel
▪ Oath

36. Arian State
 Anti-semitism
 Nuremburg Laws 1935
 Kristallnacht Nov. 9, 1938
Nazi State and Women
 Bearers of Children
 Excluded from Labor
▪ Propoganda