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