Transcript 3-The Rise of Adolf Hitler

1919: Where did Kaiser
Wilhelm II go to?
New Government of
Germany –
Weimar Republic
(starts off badly)
Why?
#1 - The leaders of the
Weimar Republic
signed the Treaty of
Versailles.
#2 - Germany did not
increase taxes during
the WWI
Tax money
Cost of WWI
Debt
$1.5 bil.
$37 bil.
- $35.5 bil.
What can
we add to
that
number?
#3 - 1929: The Depression
Millions of Germans lost
their jobs when the
Depression Hit
#4 - High inflation
End of WWI: 2 marks
1923: 4 million marks!
German
woman
lights fire
with
German
marks
after
WWI!
People were
looking for a
leader who would
provide jobs and
hope for Germany
Austrian:
little ambition
child
HS drop-out
(went to
Vienna to be
an artist)
Fought for
Germany in
WWI
Two Iron
Crosses
I denounce
the Treaty
of Versailles
I denounce
communism
too!
Dynamic Speaker
Germany will be
strong again!
Let’s improve
the economy!
Joins National
Socialist German
Workers Party:
Nazi Party
The Beer Hall Putsch:
1923 Coup attempt
Hitler in jail
for 9 months
Busy writing
his book...
“My Struggle”
Germans
are
Jews, Slavs,
part
of an Aryan
& gypsies
are
master
race
inferior!
Jews They
are toare
blame
not
for ourpart
economic
of the
problems
Aryan race
Living
space!
Germany needs
Lebensraum!
Let’s check out how
well Hitler’s perfect
Aryan race did at
the 1936 Berlin
Olympics.
1928: Nazi 108,000
members out of 60
million
Depression stops
US loans to
Germany
1932:
40%
largest
have
party in
no jobs
Germany
‘33: becomes Chancellor
We will have
new Reichstag
elections
A fire
breaks out!
It was
communists!
Nazis win
slim
majority in
Reichstag
The
Reichstag
gives Hitler
absolute
power for
4 years!
Calls new
empire the
Third Reich
June ‘34: demands
military swear
allegiance to him
Aug. ‘34:
abolished
office of
president
& declared
himself
Fuehrer, or
leader
All other
parties are
abolished
Hitler’s security
force
Led by
Heinrich
Himmler
Secret
Police
Led by
Hermann
Goering
Gov’t supervised
labor & business
Strikes
Unions
Building factories,
weapons, & highways
Public
schools
taught Nazis
ideas
Radio
wardens
Censorship
1933 - Book burning
of “un-German”
writings
Over a hundred years
earlier, the GermanJewish poet, Heinrich
Heine, had stated, "Where
books are burned, human
beings are destined to be
burned too."
Boys:
Hitler’s
Youth
"The weak must be
chiselled away. I wan
young men and
women who can
suffer pain. A young
German must be as
swift as a greyhound,
as tough as leather,
and as hard as
Krupp's steel."
Joseph Goebbels:
Minister of propaganda
Propaganda must always
therefore be essentially simple &
repetitious. In the long run only
he will achieve basic results in
influencing public opinion who is
able to reduce problems to the
simplest terms & who has the
courage to keep forever
repeating them in this simplified
form despite
the objections of intellectuals.
--Joseph Goebells