Great Depression and the rise of Nazism

• NSDAP votes rose to 37% in the Reichstag elections of 1932
• Hitler promised to end unemployment within four years if he came into power
• Hitler's Enabling Act


  A way to refer to the Enabling Act, emphasizing Hitler's role in its passage and significance.
• Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) - Nazi organization that controlled all labor unions
• Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst) - compulsory service for young men aged between 18-25
• Gleichschaltung - The process by which the Nazi party brought all aspects of German society under their control
• Reichstag Fire Decree - Law allowing police to arrest anyone suspected of being involved with communists or social democrats without evidence
• Enabling Act - Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting parliament, giving him dictatorial powers
• Goebbels became head of Reichskulturkammer and used it to control all aspects of culture in Nazi Germany.
• Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor was introduced in September 1935 to prevent marriage or sexual relations between Germans and Jews.
• Hitler's foreign policy aimed at expanding Lebensraum (living space) for Germans through military conquest.
• Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service - Removed Jews from government positions
• The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 defined Jews as those with at least three Jewish grandparents and prohibited them from marrying non-Jewish Germans.
• The Holocaust began on January 30th, 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.