HITLER NEED TO KNOW

Fuehrer of Nazi Party

Demagouge w/ oratorical skills

• appeals to all people

SA (Rohm) to protect party and combat rival parties

SS (Himmler) to protect himself

Mein Kampf + political strategy

Goebbel + propaganda

Built Nazi party to obtain Reichstag seats legally

Nazi Party Machine

Effective Propaganda

• oratorical addresses to the people

SA terrorizes opponents

centralizes the gov more reichstag seats for nazis

1933: PAPEN CONVINCES HINDENBURG TO PLACE HITLER AS CHANCELLOR

• allows hitler to place nazis in key positions

• make SA a legal entity

• stall elections to gain majority

Reichstag Fire

• turned germans from communism

Enabling Act of 1933

temp. dictatorial power

night of long knives

• gets military on his side

Gleichshaltung: systematic distruction of the weimar goc to centralize germ

• single party state

• expel dissidents

• fill bureaucracy with Nazis

• bring assemblies under Reich control

• ban private armies

• trade unions under state control

• youth groups/education propaganda

1933: GESTAPO was created to arrest political dissidents and send them to concentration camps

1933: Concordat: Lutheran + Catholic govs recognize/swear loyalty to hitler + nazi party so they can stay open

night of long knives

• purges SA to get rid of threat + gain military support

APPEASMENT ROUTINE

• 1. make unreasonable claim 2. argue mistreatment + act 3. express justice has been achieved and promise future peace

Munich Conference

• ultimate appeasement

• prompts G + It to act up

Breaks ToV, especially with Rhineland

Anglo German Naval: G gets to rebuild the navy

Berlin Rome Axis and later Tripartite

German Polish Non Aggression was just good pr

1939: PACT OF STEEL guarantees ally

1939: Nazi Soviet temporarily neutralizes USSR

hitler introduces ‘new deal’ -esque programs that revitalize the german economy during the depression

• autobahn + volkswagon

• social/labor benefits

• low-cost housing

• tax relief for businesses

• jobs with treatment purposes