hitler and nazi germany junior cert history- 3 rd year
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HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY
Junior Cert History- 3rd Year
Early career
Austrian Blamed Jews for art failure
in Vienna Dispatch rider in German
army. 2 Iron crosses. Wounded twice.
Joined Nazi party as gov spy. Became leader.
Munich Putsch. Trial and Jail (Mein Kampf)
Hitler’s Ideas
Superior Aryan Race must be kept clean.
Lebensraum Jews undermining
Germany Anti-Communist Abolish Versailles Weimar weak
Why Nazism became popular.
Weak governments Economic problems Great depression Popular policies on
Versailles, Communism, Jews.
Violence. SA ‘Brownshirts’ (Rohm) SS and Gestapo (Himmler)
Propaganda Hitler’s personality
(speeches)
Becoming a dictator
More popular in 1930s. Elected Chancellor in 1933.
SA and SS beat up opponents
Reichstag fire = banned socialists
Enabling law = rule by decree
Banned all other parties. Became Fuhrer (leader).
Propaganda
Goebbles was minister in charge
Strict censorship Mass rallies Olympic games Books burned and
rewritten Hitler Youth. League of
German Maidens (BDM)
Successes at home
6 million found jobs in 3 years
Autobahns Volkswagen Rearmament
The Jews
Anti-Semitism Nuremberg laws (no
citizenship, no intermarriage, star of David)
Crystal Night Ghettoes Final Solution.