Nazism and the rise of hitler

2. About Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889,
Braun au am Inn, Austria.
Adolf Hitler was died on April 30, 1945,
Berlin, Ger.
He was Dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933
to 1945.
He was a soldier in the German army in
World War I, he was wounded and gassed.
In 1920 he became head of propaganda for
the renamed National Socialists (Nazi Party)
and in 1921 party leader.

3. He set out to create a mass movement, using unrelenting propaganda.
The party's rapid growth climaxed in the Beer Hall Putsch (1923), for
which he served nine months in prison; there he started to write his
virulent autobiography, Mein Kampf.
Believing that “races” were unequal and that this was part of the natural
order, he exalted the “Aryan race” while propounding anti-Semitism,
anticommunism, and extreme German nationalism. The economic slump
of 1929 facilitated Hitler's rise to power. In the Reichstag elections of
1930 the Nazis became the country's second largest party and in 1932
the largest. Hitler ran for president in 1932 and lost but entered into
intrigues to gain power, and in 1933 Paul von Hindenburg invited him to
be chancellor. . Adopting the title of

4. Furer (“Leader”), Hitler gained dictatorial powers through the Enabling
Act and suppressed opposition with assistance from Heinrich Himmler
and Joseph Goebbels. Hitler also began to enact anti-Jewish measures,
which culminated in the Holocaust. His aggressive foreign policy led to
the signing of the Munich Agreement with France, Britain, and Italy,
which permitted German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
He became allied with Benito Mussolini in the Rome-Berlin Axis. The
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (1939) enabled him to invade
Poland, precipitating World War II. As defeat grew imminent in 1945,
he married Eva Braun in an underground bunker in Berlin, and the next
day they committed suicide.

5. Nazi party was a German political party of National Socialism.
Nazi party Founded in 1919 as the German Workers' Party, it changed its
name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party when Adolf Hitler
became leader (1920–21). The nickname Nazi was taken from the first
word of its full name, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. The
Nazi party grew from its home base in Bavaria and attracted members
from disaffected elements throughout Germany. It organized strong-arm
groups (later the SA) to protect its rallies. Though the failed Beer Hall
Putsch diminished the party's influence, the effects of the Great
Depression brought millions of new members, , and in 1932 the party
became the largest bloc in the Reichstag.

6. After Hitler was named chancellor in 1933, he obtained passage of the
Enabling Act, and his government declared the Nazi party to be the only
political party in Germany and required bureaucrats to become members.
. The Nazi party controlled virtually all activities in Germany until
Germany's defeat in World War II (1945), after which the party was
banned.

8. SA
SA full form is Sturmabteilung (German: “Assault Division”) known as
Storm Troopers or Brown shirts.
Nazi paramilitary organization that played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise
to power.
The SA was founded by Hitler in Munich in 1921 and drew its early
membership from the Freikorps. Outfitted in brown uniforms after the
fashion of the Italian Fascist Black shirts, the SA protected Nazi Party
meetings and assaulted political opponents. From 1931 it was headed by
Ernst Rohm, and by 1932 it had grown to a force of more than 400,000.

9. Rohm wanted to merge the regular army with the SA under his
leadership, but Hitler had become wary of the organization's growing
power. In 1934 he ordered a “blood purge” of the SA, which became
known as the Night of the Long Knives. Thereafter the SA was reduced to
a minor political role.
Night of the Long Knives
June 30, 1934
Purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler.
Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler
ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders,
including Ernst Rohm. Also killed that night were hundreds of other
perceived opponents of Hitler, including Kurt von Schleicher and Gregory
Stressor.

10. Kurt von Schleicher
Born on April 7, 1882, in Brandenburg, Ger.
Died on June 30, 1934, in Berlin.
German army officer and last chancellor
of the Weimar Republic.
A career army officer, he rose to major general by 1929 and became a key
figure in the Weimar Republic. His political intrigues helped secure for
him the posts of defense minister (1932)
and chancellor (1932–33). Seeking to keep the Nazis under the army's
control, he offered to participate in a government with Adolf Hitler, but
Hitler refused him and thereafter regarded Schleicher as his chief enemy.
Dismissed by Paul von Hindenburg in favor of Hitler, Schleicher was
murdered during the Night of the Long Knives.

11. Paul von Hindenburg
In full Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff
und von Hindenburg .
Born on Oct. 2, 1847, in Posen, Prussia.
Died on Aug. 2, 1934, in Neudeck, Ger.
German field marshal and
second president (1925–34) of the
Weimar Republic.
Born to an aristocratic family, he retired from the Prussian army as a
general in 1911. Recalled to duty in World War I, he commanded German
forces in East Prussia and became a national hero after the Battle of
Dannenberg (1914). With Erich Ludendorff as his chief aide, he nominally
commanded all German forces until the end of the war, then retired
again in 1919.

12. Supported by conservative groups, he was elected president of Germany
in 1925. When the Great Depression led to a political crisis, he was
pressured to make the government more independent of parliamentary
controls. In 1930 he allowed Chancellor Heinrich Burning to dissolve the
Reichstag, and in the new elections the Nazi Party emerged as the
second largest party. In 1932 Hindenburg was reelected president by
opponents of the Nazis; however, his advisers considered the Nazis
useful, and in 1933 he was persuaded to appoint Adolf Hitler chancellor.

13. Map of
Germany