Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
-Steps to power:
-1928-12 members of Nazi party elected to Reichstag
-1930-107 seats out of 647
-1932- 230 seats out of 647 which made them the largest party
-President Hindenburg refused to give Hitler the Chansellorship
-1932 (second election) Nazis fall to 198 seats
-Hindenburg chooses Hitler as Chancellor as a tool against the communists
-1933 Feb. (Reichstag fire election) 288 seats (majority due to imprisonment of communist members)
-1933 March enabling act
-Forms the Gestapo (secret police)
-1920 Hitler joined the German Workers party (aniti weimer republic)
-He soon became its leader
-Changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi)
-This party created the brownshirts S.A. led by Ernst Rohm a parliamentary force designed after Mussolini'a blackshirts
-1928-33 Nazi are elected to Reichstag
Brown shirts:
-Hilters henchmen
-Used through the late 20s -30s to harass opposition parties unmercifully
-led by Ernst Rohm
-full support
Night of the long Knives:
-30 june 1934 those killed were
-Any would be interna; challengers were murdered
-Ernst Rohm leader of SA
All socialist, whom he'd only adopted for electoral reasons
-He declared the Shutzstaffel (SS) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by Hindenburg
-A month after Hindenburg dies and an election was held which voted Hitler president
-1928-12 members of Nazi party elected to Reichstag
-1930-107 seats out of 647
-1932- 230 seats out of 647 which made them the largest party
-President Hindenburg refused to give Hitler the Chansellorship
-1932 (second election) Nazis fall to 198 seats
-Hindenburg chooses Hitler as Chancellor as a tool against the communists
-1933 Feb. (Reichstag fire election) 288 seats (majority due to imprisonment of communist members)
-1933 March enabling act
-Forms the Gestapo (secret police)
-1920 Hitler joined the German Workers party (aniti weimer republic)
-He soon became its leader
-Changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi)
-This party created the brownshirts S.A. led by Ernst Rohm a parliamentary force designed after Mussolini'a blackshirts
-1928-33 Nazi are elected to Reichstag
Brown shirts:
-Hilters henchmen
-Used through the late 20s -30s to harass opposition parties unmercifully
-led by Ernst Rohm
-full support
Night of the long Knives:
-30 june 1934 those killed were
-Any would be interna; challengers were murdered
-Ernst Rohm leader of SA
All socialist, whom he'd only adopted for electoral reasons
-He declared the Shutzstaffel (SS) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by Hindenburg
-A month after Hindenburg dies and an election was held which voted Hitler president
“National Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe… The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation… Germany needs peace and desires peace!"
-Adolf Hitler
-Adolf Hitler
summary
The rise of Nazi Germany was the capstone of the inter-war period, and led to the outbreak of World War II, shattering the tenuous peace. The Nazi regime's progress was paralleled by the life of its leader, Adolf Hitler