SL - Hitler Rise to Power Flashcards
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Nazi Ideology
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- Superiority of the Aryan race –> German Pride + TOV
- Belief in the Fuehrer
- Anti-semitism
- Wide Appeal (small farmers, working / middle class, upper class)
2
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Weakness of Weimar
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- Proportional representation
- Disunity to fight against Nazis
- Presidential government
3
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The leadership of Hitler
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- Great orator –> demagogue, had the common touch
- Confident in being the Fuehrer
- Charismatic leader –> attracted loyal followers eg: Gobbel
- Technical legality (using parliament participation to destroy democracy)
- Opportunistisch –> negative cohesion
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Mistakes of Opponents
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- Signing the TOV –> November Criminals
- Presidential decree –> undermined democracy
- Over-reliance on American loans –> economy collapsed
- Stressman’s foreign policy was seen as compliance of TOV –> unpopular
- Bruning cutting taxes –> deflation
- 1933: Hindenburg and Von Papen offered him Chancellor –> undermined him
- Socialists and Communists didn’t work together
5
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Violence
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- SA + SS –> intimidation + “Law and order”
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Social
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- Interest groups –> cross representation groups in society
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7
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Propaganda
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- Focused on the economic crisis and TOV –> touching on emotions rather than reasoning
- Portrayal of a Young Fuehrer
- Huge rallies
- Innovativ ways: Gramaphones, films, plane
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Economic
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- Inflation 45.6% each moth from 1919-23
- Ruhr invasion –> hyperinflation –> lost savings
- Over-reliance on American loans –> collapse
- 1933 –> unemployed 6 million
- Farmers in debt did not benefit from Golden Era
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Impact of War
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- Change of autocratic –> democratic –> high hopes
- Economically isolated from trading
3.. Loss of international strength - Loss of colonies, military and had to accept the blame of war
- Negative cohesion –> revolts eg: Sparcists revolt 1919
- Ruhr Invasion 1928 –> hyperinflation
- Had to pay reparations
- Dead and wounded
