Early nazi

• Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889, moved to Munich in 1913, and became obsessed with all things German
• Key points in the Nazi 25-point programme

  • Get rid of the Treaty of Versailles
  • Everybody should have a job
  • Build up Germany's armed forces
  • Only German races may be members of the nation, no Jew may be a citizen
  • Expand Germany across new territory to feed the people and to settle surplus population (Lebensraum)
  • All citizens should have equal rights and duties
  • Every hard-working German to have the chance of higher education
  • State must protect mothers and infants, stop children working, make laws for compulsory sports
• Sturmabteilung (SA)


  A paramilitary force, made up of unemployed ex-soldiers, formed in August 1921 by Hitler and put under the command of Ernst Röhm, used to disrupt opposition meetings and control crowds and opposition to Hitler - often violently
• Hitler attempted to overthrow the Weimar government in November 1923 in the Munich Putsch
• Consequences of the Munich Putsch

  • In the short term, the Putsch was not good for Hitler as the NSDAP was banned and it had failed miserably

  In the long term, the consequences were more positive as Hitler used his trial to publicise his views, wrote Mein Kampf, and realised the party needed to rethink its tactics and be more organised to win support nationally
• Hitler organised the Bamberg Conference in 1926 to address splits between the socialist and nationalist wings of the Nazi movement, securing his power as leader
• Hitler's appeal as a leader

  • He was a strong leader

  His image appeared on most publicity materials

  He travelled around the country giving speeches and talking on the radio
• Hitler's appeal as a leader

  • He was a strong leader
  • His image appeared on most publicity material
  • He travelled around the country giving speeches and talking on the radio
  • The party adopted modern technology, e.g used aeroplanes
  • The intimidation tactics of the ever-growing SA (stormtroopers) helped to increase support for the Nazis
• Hitler's propaganda

  • He persuaded business people that he could solve the economic crisis
  • He persuaded working-class people that he could give them work and food
  • He persuaded middle-class people that he could protect them from the communists, solve the economic crisis and return Germany to traditional values
  • He persuaded rural communities that he could protect them from the communists, who might seize their land
  • He persuaded young people to join him by providing something exciting for them to be part of
  • He persuaded women that the Nazis were the best party to save the nation and their families