Case Study 1: Hitler Flashcards
Emergence (6)
Economic Factors
Social Divisions
Impact of War/Revanchism
Weakness of Political System
Propaganda and Charisma
Economic Factors
Industry after WW1
Unemployment
Loans, Reparations and Public Debt - Treaty of Versailles
Invasion of the Ruhr 1923 and Hyperinflation
Impact of Great Depression
Social Divisions
Extremes of Wealth and Poverty
Lost Generation
Demonisation of Groups
Impact of War- Cause
Economic devastation
Social adjustment
Territorial Losses
Article 231 - War Guilt Clause
Revisionism and Revanchism
Weakness of Political System
Weimar Republic Structural Issues (proportional representation, lack of democratic tradition, article 48)
Hindenburg (Chancellorships / FVP and KVS)
Backstairs Intrigue
Political Extremism
Propaganda and Charisma
Joeseph Goebbels
Ministry of Propaganda
Filmshows, torchlight processions, mass meetings, loudspeakers, banners
Press and Broadcasting
Music, Theatre, Art, Literature, Film
Maintenance (4)
Use of force
Charismatic leadership and Propaganda
Legal Methods
Foreign Policy
Use of Force
Prosecution of Minorities
Paramilitaries (Gestapo, SS and SA)
Elimination of opposition:
Purge of Civil Service
Night of the Long Knives
Charismatic leadership and Propaganda
- Potsdam Ceremony
- Army’s Oath of Loyalty
- Ministry of public Enlightenment and Propaganda
- Nuremberg Rallies
Legal Methods
Reichstag Fire -Decree of Protection of the People and the State
March Elections
Enabling Act
Trade Unions were abolished
Banned political parties
Foreign Policy
Revision of Versailles
Disarmament conference 1932 (Left League of Nations)
Anglo German Naval Agreement 1935
Rome-Berlin Axis 1936
Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939
Lebensraum
Anschluss
Rhineland 1936
Appeasement - Munich Agreement 1938
Czechoslovakia 1939
Danzig and Polish Corridor 1939
Policies
Economic
Political
Cultural/Social
Women
Economic Policies
Trade Unions Banned
New Plan 1934 (control of imports and exports to sustain rearmament efforts)
Autarky
The Four Year Plan 1936 (expansion in war-related industrial production)
Political Policiies
“Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State”
Enabling Act
Law for the Protection of Retail trade
Reich Entailed Farm Law
Cultural and Social Policies
Nazi youth associations
Nazification of Educational Systems
Policies towards outsiders and minorities (Anti-Semitism, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma/Sinti, Handicapped)
