Living under Nazi Rule

• When were Nazi party origins

  1920's
• When did the Nazi party become strong

  1930's
• When was Nazi party founded

  1919
• Who founded the Nazi Party

  Anton Drexler
• What was Adolf Hitler's natural tament

  Public speaking
• When did Hitler become chairman of the Nazi's

  1921
• On 8 November 1923 What was Hitler unsuccessful in doing: Takeover of power of Nazi's

  Ended with 16 Nazi's dead and Hitler arrested
• What book did Hitler write?

  Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
• What was the effect of Mein Kampf: Gained Hitler more power
• When was Nazi party relaunched

  February 1925
• Why did the German People turn to more extreme parties like the Nazis: Unemployment and depression
• In 1933 What did Nazis' win: Majority of seats in Reichstag (parliament)
• Adolf Hitler: Good public speaker

  Leader of the party

  Portrayed as 'God-like
• Josef Goebbels: Highly educated

  Led Nazi Propaganda using newspapers, films and radio
• Ernest Röhm: Leader of the SA a personal army of officers of 400,000
• Heinrich Himmler


  Leader of the SS
• SS


  elite Nazi soldiers
• Herman Göring


  Commander of German Luftwaffe, 1933-1945
• Wall Street Crash: Led to a global depression and affected Germany badly
• Nazi Policies: Abolish treaty of Versailles

  Bread and jobs

  Lebensraum

  Strong Central Government

  Destroy communism

  Aryans were supreme
• Abolish the Treaty of Versailles: German army to become prominent again
• Bread and Jobs

  Promised the unemployed work and food
• Lebensraum


  living space
• strong central government

  Crucial to living
• Destroy Communism


  Thought they could overtake the world
• Aryans are supreme


  Natural Germans were considered better
• When did Hitler become Chancellor?

  January 1933
• Acronym FEND: reichstag Fire

  Enabling act

  Night of long knives

  Death of hindenburg
• What did the communists prove to be: a threat to the Nazis
• How did Hitler remove the Communists

  Reichstag fire
• When was the Reichstag fire?

  27th February 1933
• Reichstage Fire Decree


  Restricted communists in Parliament
• Who was found inside the Reichstag fire? Young Communist (called Marinus van der Lubbe)
• How many communists were arrested after the Reichstag fire? 4000
• Enabling Act: enabled Hitler to get rid of the Reichstag parliament and pass laws without reference to parliament
• What did the SA and SS do to intimidate voters: Patrolled voters
• The election of 1933


  Nazi's got 288/647 seats
• Which party did Nazi's side with to form a coalition to pass any laws they wanted: Nationalists
• How many people in Reichstag voted for the Enabling Act: 444
• How many people in Reichstag voted against the Enabling Act: 92 (social democrats)