The Early Years Of The Nazis 1919-1929 Flashcards
How was the Munich Putsch unrealistic and doomed?
1) He grossly overestimated the level of public support for a putsch - despite the problems faced by Weimar’s democratic government in 19123.
2) he showed a lack of real planning
3) he relied too heavily on the promise of support from Ludendorff.
4) most significantly, at the eleventh hour, Kahr and Lossow fearing failure, decided to hold back.
The consequences of the failed Munich putsch
Hitler and the putschists were charged and arrested with treason, the party was banned. However Hitler gained significant political advantages…
How did the failure of the putsch work in Hitler’s acceptance?
1) he turned his trial into a great propaganda success - he evoked admiration for his patriotism.
2) he won the respect of many other right wing nationalists for having had the courage to act.
3) the leniency of his sentence - fiver years, the minimum stipulated by the constitution, he actually only served 10 months, he had the sympathy of the judiciary.
4) he used his months in prison to write Mein Kampf.
What was the framework for Nazism and ideology? (Some of which established in Mein Kampf)
Racism - shaped by social Darwinism, master race were Aryans and the inferior race are the Jews.
Anti-democracy - no alternative to a strong dictatorial rule, he wanted the Fuhrerprinzip.
Nationalism - Hitler wanted the creation of a Nazi German volk and an empire.
Fuhrerprinzip
Rejected representative government and liberal values. Thus the masses of society were to be controlled for the common good, but an individual leader was to be chosen in order to rouse the nation into action.
Socialist aspect of Nazism - Volkgemeinschaft
‘People’s community’ - very vague element of Nazi ideology and so hard to define. It was intended to overcome the old differences of class, religion and politics. But secondly it aimed to. Bring about a new collective national identity by encouraging people to work together for the benefit of the nation and by promoting ‘German values’.
The beer hall putsch of 1923
The nazis were too weak to conduct a political take-over on their own - it was this need to for allies that led Hitler in it negotiations with Kahr and the Bavarian state government. They aimed to mobilise all the military forces in Bavaria including, the army, SA and other paramilitaries. They wanted to seize Berlin np and take national power.
