3.2 The Great Depression
The Nazis in the Depression
Economic Disaster
Hitler comes to power
Weimar Culture
To conservative Germans, all these trends seemed decadent, proof of a decline in traditional moral values.
Germany in the 1920 was at the cutting edge of European culture.
The Dawes plan was an international agreement designed to help Germany pay its reparations while also rebuilding its economy.
He also introduced a new currency to and the hyperinflation. Most importantly, in 1924 he negotiated the Dawes Plan.
Gustav Stresemann. He became the leading Weimar politician.
Hitler had decided to try to win power democratically rather than attempting another putsch.
October 1929, the United State’ stock market suddenly collapsed.
Financial disaster known as the Wall Street Crash.
While the state was unable to provide money, jobs or even food for most of the unemployed.
Millions of shops and businesses closed down.
The World was plunged into the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in human history.
30 January 1933, President Hindenburg reluctantly appointed Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany.
They believed that by bringing Hitler into government as part of a coalition with other right-wing parties.
Making Hitler Chancellor, they handed him power that he would use to destroy not only them, but the entire exiting order in Germany.
Hitler found a much wider audience was willing to listen to him.
Hitler spread his massage through the radio, the cinema and by giving speeches all over Germany.
The election of July 1932, the Nazis’ electoral support peaked at 37 percent, making them largest party in the Reichstag.