Nazism1

totalitarian movement

vision of annihilation of all enemies of that were Aryan

Hitler’s viewpoint was influenced by Austrian movements specifically those anti-semitism

In Hitler’s personal book Mein Kampf, he outlined his aims and his theories of race and propaganda.

National Socialist German Workers’ Party (real name)

Hitler believed that capitalists, should give up on exploitation of workers, on the other hand, workers should give up on class struggle

corporatism (unifying both capitalists and workers to build the economy back)

Hitler and the Fürerprinzip2

Mein Kampf's key principles were:

class struggle must be fought, as it was responsible for the collaps of German society

he accused of jews for the economic expoloitation of Germany

democracy and parliamentarism are responsible for the moral decay of Germany

hitler wanted to:

conquer Eastern countries

have a Fürer he would be the the embodiment of power

Unify German Volk(People with German origins)

The third Reich3

1933 hitler was named chancellor

people were starting to fear hitler

But foreign ambassadors defined him as a mediocre copy of Mussolini

The Reichstag fire4

After being nominated chancellor he launched a offencive against his opponents:

banned newspapers and publications, blameing them of revolt's

the SA attacked left-wing activists and politicians

removed from public administration and bureaucracy everyone who was untrustworthy

27th february 1933 the Reichstag fire happened

Arson attock to the Reichstag building (Hitler accused a Dutch communist)

The communists were Hitlers political enemys, and like this he eliminated them

Building the totalitarian state5

They accepted

he asked the Parliament to deprive itself of its legislative power and transfer it to him

Enabling Act allowed Hitler to rule by emergency decree for four years (this made legislative power possible)

Hitler took advantage of this to abolish the powers of the states and non-Nazi political parties

The persecution of Jews6

persecution of Jews in three phases:

  1. Jews and "cultural Bolsheviks" were considered to be in a conspiracy
  1. Jews were seen as the main responsible for Germany’s problems
  1. to be Jew, at least three out of four grandparents had to be Jewish
  1. Nuremberg Laws, a law that stripped Jewish people of their civil and political rights
  1. Police men ar eordered to arrest Jews (preferably young and healthy)
  1. Finally they are brought to concetration camps

KristallNacht7

7 november 1938 a German diplomat

Hitler didn't miss the chance and engaged in the destruction of Jewish-owned homes and businesses

police officials should arrest as many Jews as local jails could hold

destroyed hundreds of synagogues and Jewish institutions

Germany, Austria, and Sudetenland

German government made said that “the Jews” themselves were to blame for this

The racisim was also for people with epilepsy, schizophrenia and more ereditarian deseases

Towards ww1 (8)

Hitler decided to leave the League of Nations

Hitler reorganised the whole German industrial sector towards war industry

he rebuild a small navy

1936 Hitler occupied the Rhine Valley (which had to be a demilitarised)

Stresa Conference

There was a conference becuase of Hitlers perpetration

the conference had barely any impact

Mussolini presented himself as a man peaceful man (he actually wanted to invade Ethiopia)

Germany Italy and Jappan left the League of nations and got closer:

Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

Germany and Italy signed the Rome-Berlin Axi (alliance)