Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
The Great Depression
Brownshirts
The Burning of the Reichstag
the Enabling Act
The Night of the Long Knives
- unemployment high
- many angry workers
- Hitler, like roosevelt provided jobs and helped the economy recover through make work projects (eg. autobon)
Brownshirts
- Hitlers henchmen
- used through the late 20's and 30's to harass opposition parties unmercifully
- led by Ernst Rohm
- After Hitler is elected many are appointed auxiliary police
The Burning of the Reichstag
- It was a supposed Dutch communist that was at fault for the burning
- Hitler with the help of his henchmen "the brown-shirts" make the Reichstag -passed the enabling actto face the supposed communist revolution.
- Gives Hitler permission to pass any law in the Reichstag.
- President Hindenburg only person left
- Barely hold onto a majority
- By 1933 all other political parties were banished
the Enabling Act
- Agreed to by the Reichstag in 1933 under threats from the brownshirts (S.A.)
- Only 93 Social Democrats voted against it
- Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag
- Despite the lack of freedom of speech or press Hitler only won 288 seats, barely a majority
- By July 1933 all other political parties are outlawed
- Steps to power
- 1928- 12 members of Naizi party
The Night of the Long Knives
- 30 June 1934 those killed were:
- Any would be internal challengers were murdered
- Ernst Rohm leader of S.A.
- All ‘socialists’, whom he’d only adopted for electoral reasons
- He declared the Shutzstaffel (S.S.) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by Hindenburg
- A month later Hindenburg dies and an ‘election’ was held which voted Hitler in as President
Brownshirts
Subjunctive question: In your opinion, what was the biggest factor to the Holocaust, on Hitlers part?
Quotes: "Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."
-Adolf Hitler
Quotes: "Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."
-Adolf Hitler
Summary: Adolf Hitler was in power for a long period of time and changed the world. He created many laws, and acts to put him in higher power resulting in the WW.
