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Nazism & The Rise of the Hitler (I), image, World War I: Allies:…

- - - - Treaty of Versailles
        
        10% of its population was lost
        
        13% of its territories were lost
        
        Overseas colonies were lost
        
        A peace treaty to officially make amends, offered to Germany
        
        75% of its iron and 26% of its coal to France, Poland,
        Denmark and Lithuania
      - War Guilt Clause
        
        6 million Euros worth of reparations were to be paid
        
        Held Germany responsible for the War and the damage the Allies faced
      - Aggressive War Propaganda
        
        The war was a glorified by the people and the media
        
        The men were 'stereotyped' deeply and soldiers were valued more than civilians
        
        Trench life was romanticized, where as the reality was unspeakable
        
        During WWI, dictatorship was encouraged whereas democracy was mocked upon, now, building a government on the same lines was a brittle idea
      - The Weimar Republic was seen as a weak government, accepting the humiliation and the consequences of the past nation quietly
  - - - USA:
        
        Wall Street Exchange, the biggest stock market of the country crashed
        
        On a single day, 13 million shares were sold (24th October)
        
        During this time period, the national income fell by half
        
        Farmers were badly hit and speculators withdrew their money from the market
      - Germany:
        
        All the support being provided was withdrawn, and Germany had been severely affected
        
        In 1929, the industrial production was reduced to 40%
        
        Workers lost their jobs or were paid reduced wages
        
        6 million people were unemployed
        
        Men with placards were seen on the streets, saying 'Willing to do any work'
        
        Youth took up criminal activities
        
        Salaried employees and pensioners lost their savings
        
        Businessmen, the self-employed and retailers lost their businesses
        
        Fear of proletarianisation or the reduction to working classes, or even unemployed
        
        Organized workers were barely surviving
        
        Agricultural prices fell sharply and affected peasantry
  - - - Attaining majority by one party was almost impossible
      - Therefore, there were usually coalitions formed which lead to instability
    - - This article gave the President the power to impose emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree
      - This was even used liberally once
- - - - The Nazi Party
        
        Renamed before to National Socialist German Workers party
  - - - Build a strong nation
      - Undo the injustice of the Versailles Treaty
      - Restore the dignity of Germans
      - Employment to the unemployed
      - Secure future for the youth
      - Remove all foreign influences
      - Resist all foreign ‘conspiracies’ against Germany
  - - - Dictatorship in Germany
      - Hitler to rule by his will
      - Political parties and trade unions to be banned except the Nazi Party and its associates
      - Complete control over the economy, media, army and judiciary
    - - Gestapo (secret state police)
      - SS (the protection squads)
      - Criminal police
      - SD (Security Service)
      - Regular police in green uniform and the SA (Storm Troopers), which were preexisting
  - - - Hitler's thinking was stemmed from works of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer
      - Charles Darwin gave and Herbert Spencer us the theory of evolution, natural selection and 'survival of the fittest'
      - The Nazi argument, twisting the theories into a racist ploy and said that the strongest race would survive and the weaker ones would perish
      - The strongest race here was the Aryan race which had to retain its purity and dominate the world
    - - This was Hitler's geopolitical ideology, which translates into 'living space'
      - He believed that new territories had to be seized for settlement, to enhance the standard of living of Germany while still remaining in contact with the motherland
      - As well as, it would enhance the material resources and power of the German nation
      - Hitler initiated this plan with annexing eastwards, to Poland (marking the start of WW2)
- - - - He withdrew from the League of Nations
    - - He re-occupied Rhineland
    - - He integrated Austria and Germany under the slogan: 'One people, One empire, and One leader'
    - - He annexed Sudetenland and later took down the whole country of Czechoslovakia
  - - - Germany invaded Poland, which instigated a war with France and England.
    - - A Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan, giving Hitler international exposure and strength.
      - By the end of 1940, Hitler reached the peak of his power.
    - - He attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, which is famously known as his historic blunder
      - On the German western front he exposed the British aerial bombing, while on the eastern front to the Soviet armies
      - The Soviet Red Army retaliated, defeating Germany at Stalingrad, which was extremely humiliating
      - The Soviet Army relentlessly kept attacking the German army till they reached Berlin and ruled Eastern Europe for half a century thereafter
    - - Japan was expanding its power in the east and had captured French Indo-China colonies and was planning to attack US navy bases
      - Japan expanded its support to Hitler and bombed the US base at Pearl Harbor, which was the entry point of US in the war
      - USA had resisted to join the war, due to the consequences caused the previous time, but couldn't stay out of the war any longer
      - 1945:
        
        USA dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima in Japan, marking the end of the war and Hitler's defeat
  - - - Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies
    - - Hitler, his mistress Eva Braun, his propaganda minister Josef Goebbels, his wife and children all committed suicide in Hitler's Berlin Bunker
    - - An organization set up in Nuremberg, to prosecute Nazis against War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and Crimes against Peace
      - The Tribunal sentenced only 11 Nazi leaders to death, which was seen as a very lenient punishment