KT2 Hitler’s Rise to Power

• When did Hitler become an informant on the DAP?

  September 1919
• Which party was Hitler ordered to report on?

  The DAP or German Worker's Party
• Who founded the DAP?

  Anton Drexler
• Where was the DAP founded?

  Munich
• When was the DAP founded?

  February 1919
• How many members did the DAP have in 1919?

  50
• What were the values of the DAP and Drexler in 1919?

  • The DAP was nationalist and appealed to the right-ring
  • Drexler had some left-wing socialist ideas such as caps on profits from big companies
• Why did Hitler join and begin to take control over the DAP?

  He was ordered to join to observe it but he rose because he was a skilled speaker and his speeches were full of enthusiasm
• When did Drexler ask Hitler to oversee recruitment and propaganda in the DAP?

  January 1920
• What did Hitler attack in his new role as the overseer of recruitment and propaganda in the DAP?

  • The Treaty of Versailles
  • The Weimar Government
  • The November Criminals
  • Jews and Communists because of Dolchstoss
• When was the DAP renamed to include National Socialist or Nationalsozialistische at the beginning of it's name?

  August 1920, it became the NSDAP or Nazi party
• When did Hitler and Drexler draw up the 25 point programme?

  February 1920
• What was the 25 point programme?

  A programme which included political ideas rather than policies which appealed to both left-wing and right-wing voters
• What were some ideas in the 25 point programme?

  • A strong, united Germany
  • The Treaty of Versailles should be ignored
  • Germany should be governed by a single leader rather than a democracy
  • The Aryan race was superior
  • Jews were inferior
  • Germany should be economically self-sufficient
  • Jews and communists threatened Germany's stability
  • Germans needed space to expand- Lebensraum (living space) by growing territories
• When did the NSDAP buy a newspaper?

  December 1920
• Which newspaper was bought by the NSDAP?

  The Volkische Beobachter or People's Observer
• What did the newspaper bought by the NSDAP allow Hitler to do?

  Publish his views to a wider audience
• How many members of the NSDAP were there in 1920?

  2000
• How many members were in the NSDAP by 1923?

  20000
• When did Hitler defeat Drexler to take control of the NSDAP?

  July 1921
• What position did Hitler beat Drexler for in 1921?

  Fuhrer
• What was the Fuhrerprinzip?

  The Leadership principle, allowing Hitler to strengthen his authority over the Nazi Party
• Who were Hitler's closest allies in the NSDAP in the early 1920s?

  • Rudolf Hess, a WW1 veteran who was Hitler's second in command who was wealthy and brought money to the party
  • Ernst Rohm, a former army officer who founded the SA
  • Julius Streicher, who allowed the NSDAP to use his newspaper Der Sturmer or The Stormer to give them an audience outside of Bavaria
  • Hermann Goering, a German Air Force pilot in WW1 who took control of the SA
• When did Goering join the NSDAP?

  1922
• When was Goering given command of the SA?

  1923
• When did Rohm set up the SA?

  1921
• What was the SA?

  The Sturmabteilung which was the Nazi's private army
• How many members were in the SA by 1922?

  800
• Who mostly made up the SA?

  Unemployed ex-soldiers who were angry at how they had been treated following WW1
• How were the SA used?

  They protected Nazi meetings and rallies as well as intimidating other political groups by breaking up their gatherings
• How did the SA make the Nazi party appear?

  It made them seem legitimate and gave the impression they were disciplined and well orgnanised
• What was the name for Hitler's bodyguards?

  The Stosstruppen or Shock Troops
• Where did Hitler draw his bodyguards from?

  The SA
• What were the reasons for the Munich Putsch?

  • Some blamed the Weimar Republic for economic and social issues and Hitler wanted to capitalise on this discontentment
  • Mussolini had taken power using a private fascist army in the March on Rome and Hitler thought he could replicate this
  • The Nazi Party was popular in Bavaria, the SA numbered in the thousands and Hitler thought he had the support of the nationalist politicians in Bavaria
• Who were the Nationalist politicians in Bavaria and what did they do?

  • Seisser who was the head of the Bavarian State Police
  • Kahr who ran the Bavarian government
  • Lossow who ran the Germany Army in Bavaria
• When did Hitler conspire with Seisser, Kahr and Lossow to revolt in Munich?

  October 1923
• When did Seisser, Kahr and Lossow change their minds and call off the revolt in Munich?

  4th of November 1923
• When did the Munich Putsch take place?

  The 8th and 9th of November 1923
• When was Hitler captured and arrested following the Munich Putsch?


  11th of November 1923
• What happened during the first day of the Munich Putsch?

  • Seisser, Kahr and Lossow held a meeting at the Burgerbraukeller ( a beerhall) on the outskirts of Munich
  • Hitler and 600 SA stormed in declaring a takeover of Bavaria
  • Hitler got the support of Kahr and Lossow at gunpoint
  • Rohm took control of key police and army HQs but not the main army barracks