Nazis Flashcards
How did Hitler become ‘Hitler’
- Raised by Jewish grandmother and mother after physically abusive father died
- Possibly had sexual development with mother
Where was Hitler born?
Austria
Hitler’s school year
- School dropout
- Rejected by the imperial art school
What happened to Hitler while in Vienna?
- He became a Fanatical nationalist and absorbed anti- Semitic and racist ideas
What ideas did he adopt of fanatical Christians
that capitalism and liberalism resulted in excessive individualism
Why did Hitler dislike Jews?
- believed Jews were the reason that Hitler wrote the first world war
- believed in a Jewish Marxian plot to destroy German culture
By 1921 Hitler had reshaped the__________ into the _____?
The tiny German Workers group into the Nazi party
What was a common way Hitler used to convince people of things?
Propoganda
What does Hitler attempt to overthrow in 1923?
The Weimer government
The outcome of Hitler trying to overthrow the Weimer government in 1923
He was defeated and sent to jail, which brought him alot of publicity
When did the Nazi party grow significantly?
1929
What is Mein Kampf?
Hitler’s autobiography which he wrote in jail about how he wanted 1. achieve German racial supremacy
2. dominate Europe under the leadership of a dictator (Fuhrer)
How did the depression affect the Nazi party?
- made the Nazi party attractive to the lower middle class and to young people who were unemployed soared and communits made election gains
Size of the Nazi party in 1932
The largest in the Reichstag
Why did the Weimer government welcome Hitler’s attack on the republican system?
- Their orthodox economic policies made the economic collapse worse and convinced the middle class and its leaders were incompetent
How did Hitler manipulate people?
- skilled politician, a master of propaganda and mass psych who generated enormous emotional support with his speeches
Why was Hitler legally appointed chancellor in 1933?
Conservative and nationalistic politicians believed that they could control Hitler
What gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power?
The Enabling Act of March 1933
What aspects of German life did Nazi’s take over
- every aspect; political, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual
Legal parties in Germany:
Nazi party
What was abolished in the Nazi State and Society
- Strikes and labor unions
Life when homes and universities were brought under Naxi control
Life became violently anti intellecutal
How did Hitler take total control of the military
by purging the storm troopers
Who were the Gestapo
the secert police
What did Hitler promise
- To pump money into public work projects and military spending
Did Hitler deliever on his promise to To pump money into public work projects and military spending
yes
Why was Hitler popular?
- put money into public work projects and military spending
- Unemplyment dropped +standard of living rose
- With the exception of Jews and certain minorty groups expierenced greater opportunities and equality
- Reduced Germany’s traditional class distinctions
- Some historians believe that he brought on a real social revolution
- Appelaed to Germany nationalstically
- Communists, trade unionsists and some Christians who opposed Hitler were killed
What groups did Hitler dislike
Jews, Salvs, gypsies, jehovah’s witneses communists and homosexuals
