Lean Years

• Mein Kampf

  • Hitler believed the Aryan race was destined to rule the world.
  • Jewish conspiracy to undermine Aryan race
  • Traditional German values (family)
• Party reorganisation

  • NSDAP ban lifted in 1925
  • Hitler now knew he couldn’t rely on violence and had to be elected
• Nazi party headquarters

  • central hub in Munich
  • organised like a mini state with departments for government
• National Nazi party

  • rest of Germany divided into 35 regions each with a local leader of the Nazi party
  • Strasser was powerful in the North
  • Money raised from wealthy industrialists and businessmen
• Paramilitary forces

  • SA had expanded to 400,000 by 1930
  • Hitler didn’t trust the SA as they had become loyal to Rohm instead of him
  • Replaced Rohm as SA leader
  • Set up SS as his personal bodyguards, run by Himmler
  • By 1930 SS had reached 3,000 members
• • northern industrial areas emphasised socialism, benefits for workers
  • southern rural areas emphasised nationalism, strength against jews
• Bamber Conference 1926

  • national conference called to address north and south divide
  • hitler made socialism seem like communism
  • goebbels abandoned strasser's side and agreed with hitler
• Impact of Bamberg

  • clear control by Hitler
  • strasser was murdered
  • Goebells promoted to Gauleiter of Berlin
  • socialist principles were weakened