Hitler and the Rise of Nazism 

The Great Depression 
  • 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
Hitler and Nazism -
  • 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
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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 
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.