Changes made to the Nazi Party from 1926

Question 1

What did the Nazi Party do to protect the image of the Fuhrer?

Answer 1

-Fuhrerprinzip->charismatic leader, absolute authority
-total obedience to Hitler
-trying to carry out his aims and unite the one party state

Question 2

What was the impact of the Nazis trying to protect the image of the Fuhrer?

Answer 2

-image of a strong leader was appealing to German people due to the instability of the coalition governments
-key people in positions of power worked towards the Fuhrer by being loyal to his policies

Question 3

What was the impact of the SA?

Answer 3

-his own private army->used to remove opposition

Question 4

What was the impact of the Hitler Youth?

Answer 4

-helped him gain support from the children

Question 5

What was the impact of the Nazi Teachers’ Association?

Answer 5

-helped spread the Nazi message

Question 6

What was the Nazi Welfare organisation?

Answer 6

ran soup kitchens

Question 7

What was the impact of the Nazi Welfare organisation?

Answer 7

-win over working class since they are helping them by providing food

Question 8

What was the book that Hitler wrote in prison called and what did it start?

Answer 8

-Mein Kampf
-started Nazi ideology

Question 9

What was the impact of the Mein Kampf (book Hitler wrote in prison) book?

Answer 9

-made Nazi propaganda more accessible to wider middle class support->he identified Jews with Russian Bolshevism (communism)
-ideas of a racially pure state and Lebensraum (living space) in Western Russia outlined

Question 10

What was the impact of the Volkischer Beobachter newspaper with propaganda?

Answer 10

-used to convey and spread Nazi messages quickly as many read the newspaper

Question 11

What did mass meeting and rallies help reinforce with propaganda?

Answer 11

-appealed emotionlly to the voters->reinforced exiting sympathies->more support->understood what people wanted
-reinforced existing sympathies

Question 12

Who was the leader of propanganda from 1924?

Answer 12

Goebbels

Question 13

What was the impact of Goebbels being head of propaganda?

Answer 13

-helped spread propaganda

Question 14

Who were the core supporters of the Nazi Party?

Answer 14

peasantry

Question 15

When was the the agricultural depression and what was a result of it?

Answer 15

-1927-1928
-Hitler wanted to target the groups affected by it

Question 16

What were impacts of the Golden Age?

Answer 16

-less success in agriculture->falling incomes and increased debt
-German peasantry made up 1/3rd population->lower spending power
-German exports post WW1 were lower than pre-war
-Hindered by tariffs in many parts of the world

Question 17

What was the impact of the Golden Age on the Nazis?

Answer 17

-Hitler targeted people who were struggling->they were looing for a new government and the Nazi Party appealed to them->rise in support

Question 18

What was the new Party structure like? (Gaue)

Answer 18

-divided the Nazi Party into 35 Gaue regions ruled by a gauleiter
-below these were local branches which were run by a cadre (core unit) of activists

Question 19

What was an impact of the new party structure? (Gaue)

Answer 19

-he had Nazi leaders in each region of Germany->crucial change because it spread his power/influence and made it easier for him to promote Nazi messages->became very powerful