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HISTORY Hitler and the Nazis worksheet -- Nazi Ideas - Coggle Diagram
HISTORY Hitler and the Nazis worksheet -- Nazi Ideas
Treaty of Versailles
Hated the Treaty of Versailles, and wanted to see it abolished as they could not accept the humiliation it brought to Germany
Blamed the November Criminals for signing it
Used as a scapegoat for Germany's problems
Greater Germany
Back to the old 'glorious days' of the Kaiser
When Germany was economically strong, and morally cultured.
Expand the land by taking over land from Russia and Poland
Not be weakened or ridiculed by the Treaty of Versailles
Lebensraum
Germany needed to expand as its people were hemmed in
Their solution to this was to take over more land, particularly at the expense of Russia and Poland
Race and the Jews
Wanted a 'racially pure' Germany
Racism: The Aryans (white Europeans) were the Master Race. All other races and especially the Jews were inferior.
Government/ Weimar Republic
"November Criminals" for signing the Treaty of Versailles
Despised Weimar democracy, looking back to the 'glorious days' of the Kaiser
Economic policies
Initially used this to attempt to gain the support of the workers, but after a while they saw that it was not working and decided to redirect their efforts towards the farmers
Why farmers? (particularly the peasant farmers in northern Germany)
Seemed to be more supportive
35% of Germany's entire population was the rural population
They were not benefiting as much from the Weimar Government's economic prosperity
What did they do?
Praised the peasants as racially pure Germans
Nazi Propaganda contrasted the supposedly clean and simple life of peasants with that of the allegedly corrupt, immoral, crime-ridden cities (for which they blamed the Jews!)
Why did the workers not support them?
The Nazis' anti-Semitic policies did gain them some support among the workers, but other than that, the workers weren't really on their side
Although the Nazis argued that the workers were being exploited, many urban industrial workers in fact felt that they were doing rather well in the Weimar Government (in the years up to 1929), so they weren't that supportive of a party that wanted to
overthrow
it.
Social policies
Discrimination against the 'inferior' races, especially the Jews, and favouring, the Aryans
They saw the Weimar's flourishing art, literature and film achievements as immoral
Gained them support among some conservative people in the towns
The German people
Had to be 'racially pure'
Those of the 'inferior races' did not deserve to be and were not Germans