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The Rise of Nazi Germany 2 - Coggle Diagram
The Rise of Nazi Germany 2
Reasons for public support
Great Depression persuaded more people to vote for the Nazi's
Nazi's promised Law and order + jobs
Germans wanted Germany to return to being an important world power
nazi's blamed Weimar for severe punishments of the treaty
Nazi Party received financial support
Party was well organised with skilful propaganda
Enabling Act and dictatorship
Reichstag passed enabling act in 1933
complete power to Nazi's
only political party allowed in Germany
De Fuhrer - hitler's nickname
hitler became a dictator
1933 - mass arrest of political opponents
First concentration camp set up in town of Dachu
Persecution of opponents
List of people who did not belong
political opponents
Jehovah's Witnesses
male homosexuals
racially inferiour
physically/mentally disabled
Gradual Loss of Jew's rights
hitler obsessed with racial purity
Aryan - pure german race
Anti-semitism - hatred of jews
Anti-sematic propaganda prepared the way for the holocaust
Nuremberg Laws
Jews were:
Dismissed from civil service
expelled from schools
stripped of citizenship
can't marry non-jews
forced to sit on separate park benches
Not permitted to use public facilities
Fascism
Opposite of democracy
nazi government had total control of every aspect of life in Germany
to enable nazi's to have access to everything, they needed to persuade people that hitler had the answers to their problems
Features of fascism:
no opposition
no freedom of speech
belief in a great leader
use of violence to keep control of people
spies
trade unions banned
propaganda to unite people
big emphasis on military
strong sense of pride
hatred of democracy