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Hitlers Consolidation Of Power Flashcards

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The general election 1933

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  • 5th March 1933
  • the nazis received 44% of the vote
  • this was 288 seats in the reichstag
  • this allowed hitler to get the enabling act passed
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Enabling act

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  • 23rd March 1933
  • SA intimidated non-nazi deputies
  • the Reichstag agrees that hitler should have the right to make his own laws
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Hitler taking charge…

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-14th July 1933- all other political parties are banned

24th April 1934- Hitler sets up the ‘people’s courts’ where judges have to swear an oath of loyalty to the nazis

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Night of the long knives

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  • 30th June 1934
  • SA take over the army because they feel that the nazis should follow their social agenda
  • the SS murder 400 SA members including its leader Rohm
  • this destroyed all opposition within the nazi party and gave power to the SS
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19th August 1934

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  • Hindenberg dies

- Hitler makes himself president, chancellor and head of the army

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Abolishing the trade unions

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  • gives hitler the power to destroy opposition
  • Allows Hitler to set up the German Labour Front
  • this allows him to control workers
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Key structures of the nazi state

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1) government
2) religion
3) culture
4) work
5) education and youth
6) terror
7) propaganda

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How hitler gained control of…

The government

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  • his consolidation of power gave him complete control
  • enabling law
  • local government reorganised
  • other political parties banned
  • hitler became fuhrer
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How hitler controlled …

Religion

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  • he tried to reduce the power of the church
  • non nazi Catholic priests and Protestants were sent to concentration camps
  • Jews and Jehovah’s witnesses persecuted
  • hitler sets up the ‘reich church’ which Bans the bible and the cross
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How hitler controlled…

Culture

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  • hitler ordered nazification( the imposition of nazi values on all aspects of German life)
  • artists had to produce paintings that portrayed nazi values
  • all books written by Jews or communists were burned
  • jazz music was banned
  • homosexuals were persecuted
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How hitler controlled…

Work

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  • Robert ley( head of DAF) said he would control workers from the ‘cradle to the grave’
  • the RAD( national labour service) sent young men on public works this was made compulsory in 1936
  • the DAF( German labour front). Controlled workers conditions at work
  • the KDF( strength through joy) movement regulated workers leisure time
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How hitler controlled…

Education and youth

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  • non-nazi teachers were sacked
  • teachers had to join the national socialist teachers league
  • textbooks were re-written to include nazi policies and racial ideas
  • History was taught to glorify Germany
  • girls were taught cookery
  • boys were taught science and maths
  • hitler youth was compulsory
  • the nazi girls youth organisation(BDM) was compulsory
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How hitler controlled…

Terror

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  • it was unsafe to do or say anything critical of the government
  • SS and gestapo investigations
  • blockleiters in blocks of flats informed of ‘grumblers’
  • nazi people’s courts set up
  • concentration camps
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How hitler controlled…

Propaganda

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  • Joesef goebbels brainwashed people into idolising hitler
  • mass rallies at Nuremberg
  • people’s radios sold cheaply and broadcasts controlled
  • newspapers were censored
  • loudspeakers in public places blared out nazi propaganda
  • films were controlled to make films the glorified war and pilloried Jews
  • cult of personality- hitlers picture was everywhere
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Women…

The three Ks

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Kinder( children)

Kuche( kitchen)

Kirche ( church)

Women had to quit their jobs

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Women…

Children

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  • hitler wanted a high birth rate
  • girls were made to keep fit but discouraged from being too slim as this was seen to make childbirth hard
  • unmarried women could volunteer to have a baby for an aryan member of the SS
  • women with 8 children or more were given a gold medal
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Women…

Marriage

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-hitler gave each new married couple a loan of 1,000 marks and they could keep 250 marks for every child they had

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Women…

Image

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  • no makeup
  • trousers
  • hair in a bun or plait
  • no smoking in public
  • no dying hair
  • plain clothes
  • flat shoes
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The white Rose group

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  • formed by students at Munich uni
  • they published anti nazi leaflets
  • they were executed in 1943
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The reichsbanner

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  • paramilitary wing of the social Democratic Party

- they sabotaged railways and acted as spies

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Swing groups

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  • Young people who rejected nazi values, drank alcohol and danced to jazz
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Edelweiss pirates ( who were they)

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  • a violent swing group
  • they beat up nazi officials
  • in 1944, thy killed the gestapo chief
  • as a result twelve of their members were publicly hung
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What were the kreisau circle

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  • a group o. Intellectuals and army officers who tried to bomb hitler but missed
  • in 1944, 5,000 people were killed in retaliation
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Vw wreck

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Von galden 
White rose group
With burning concern-popes message
Reichsbanner
Edelweiss pirates
Confessional church
Kreisau circle
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Who did the nazis prosecute?

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  • Jews
  • 85% of gypsies
  • they sterilised black and deaf people
  • they sterilised disabled people
  • they killed mentally ill patients
  • homosexuals. Prostitutes, Jehovah’s witnesses , pacifists, beggars and criminals were sent to concentration camps
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How the nazis persecuted the Jews (1933)

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  • they boycotted Jewish businesses
  • Jewish teachers and civil servants were sacked
  • race science lessons taught Jews are untetmensch
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How the Nazis persecuted Jews(1935)

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  • Jews weren’t allow to vote
  • Jews couldn’t marry a German citizen
  • Nuremberg rallies-Jews couldn’t be citizens
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How did the Nazis persecute Jews(1938)

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  • Jews couldn’t be doctors
  • Jews had to add Israel or Sarah to their name
  • Jewish children couldn’t go to school
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How did the Nazis persecute the Jews (1939-1941)

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-1939- Jews couldn’t own a business or a radio

  • 1941- mass shooting of Jews
  • Jews had to wear a yellow star
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The wansee conference

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  • 1942

- decided that all European Jews should be gassed

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What was kristallnacht

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  • it happened on the 9th of November 1938

- Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked

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Hitlers economic policy

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1) full employment
2) beauty of work( SDA)
3) re- armament
4) autarky

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Good life in Germany

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  • everyone had a job and a wage
  • workers had arranged trips, picnics, free holidays etc
  • There was a scheme where workers could pay a small weekly payment to receive a Volkswagen Beetle
  • autobahns improved travel and transport
  • no crime in the street
  • nazi rallies provided fun and colour
  • nazi youth groups provided holidays for young people
  • nazi ideology gave people hope and confidence
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How did hitler increase employment?

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  • he stopped paying reparations
  • he began a programme of public work
  • building such as the 1936 Olympic stadium were built creating jobs
  • the building of autobahns created 80,000 jobs
  • rearmament
  • national service
  • Jews and women sacked so Non Jewish men got these jobs
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Did Germany become self sufficient?

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  • the measures economics minister goring made weren’t successful
  • controls were put on imports but more luxuries were imported
  • scientists tried to make oil from coal
  • farmers were subsidised to produce more foods
  • food imports were reduced
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The reichstag fire

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  • 27th February 1933
  • reichstag building was set on fire
  • communist van der lubbe is arrested
  • it is believed that the nazi party set it up to gain support
  • the Nazis told people that the country was in danger from communists

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