2.5 Hitler's dictatorship

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2.5 Hitler's dictatorship

Goals for this lesson

At the end of this lessen you will...

• how Hitler used the Reichstag Fire to gain dictorial power

(2p) For each statement, choose from: an effect / a cause.

1 The value of a stock rises is an effect / a cause of a company making profit.

2 The Wall Street Crash was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

3 Hoovervilles were an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

4 Roosevelt’s New Deal was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

(2p) For each statement, choose from: an effect / a cause.

1 The value of a stock rises is an effect / a cause of a company making profit.

2 The Wall Street Crash was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

3 Hoovervilles were an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

4 Roosevelt’s New Deal was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

(2p) For each statement, choose from: an effect / a cause.

1 The value of a stock rises is an effect / a cause of a company making profit.

2 The Wall Street Crash was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

3 Hoovervilles were an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

4 Roosevelt’s New Deal was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

(2p) For each statement, choose from: an effect / a cause.

1 The value of a stock rises is an effect / a cause of a company making profit.

2 The Wall Street Crash was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

3 Hoovervilles were an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

4 Roosevelt’s New Deal was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

(2p) For each statement, choose from: an effect / a cause.

1 The value of a stock rises is an effect / a cause of a company making profit.

2 The Wall Street Crash was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

3 Hoovervilles were an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

4 Roosevelt’s New Deal was an effect / a cause of the Great Depression.

Weimar Republic

• Versailles was humiliating
• Felt Betrayed 
• Could have won the war

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Hitlers rise to power

• Prison
• Mein Kampf
• Third Reich
• totalitarian state
• war
• racism 

Hitler received a gift...

Hitler takes over control

Mar-1933 New Reichstag elections in which NSDAP received 44% of the votes.

Enabling Act proposal accepted by the Reichstag because of intimidation and imprisonement of opponents. Gave Hitler almost unlimited power.

Read night of the long knives (page 50)

Important!

Reichstag elections July 1932

Nazis (brown) are largest parties, but don't have an overall majority

Reichstag elections March 1933

Nazis (brown) , together with another nationalist party, have an overall majority

SA members looking fearful in surrender

SA leaders, dead on the floor, killed by Hitler, who holds a smoking gun.

a smoking gun, indicating that Hitler just shot the men lying dead on the floor. A smoking gun is also a clear piece of evidence.

members of the Army and SS stand with their weapons pointing towards the SA members

 The caption ‘They salute with both hands now’ is a joke about the Nazi salute. The SA used to be fiercely loyal to Hitler, and so would salute him with the Nazi salute (with one hand). However, now they have both their hands up to Hitler in surrender, showing their powerlessness. 

On the floor, lies ‘Hitler’s unkept promises’, clearly discarded. This represents how Hitler betrayed the SA, as they had been led to believe that they would gain power alongside Hitler. 

Hitler (standing aggressively with an armband that reads: ’the double cross’- a pun about the swastika and Hitler’s betrayal)

Goering (who is dressed as a violent god of war, showing how the Nazis have abandoned democracy and now rule by terror)

Goebbels (shown as Hitler’s poodle, since in Britain, where this cartoon was published,he was seen to be cowardly and extremely loyal to Hitler). It was all three of these men that were responsible for this night, because Hitler asked Goering and Goebbels to compile a list of ‘disloyal SA members’,; this list formed the basis of those killed on the Night of the Long Knives.

Germany becomes a totalitarian state

1933 Hitler and the Nazi Party got rid of everybody who didn't agree with the Nazis. They turned Germany into a totalitarian state.

Weimar Republic 1918-1933

Nazi Germany 1933-1945

understand

Get to work..

• Read par 2,5
• Do HW 2,4 and 2,5
• Summarize par 2,5
• Learn the key-words of ch.2

Options: censorship, indoctrination, propaganda, terror and repression

Match the word with the picture

A

B

C

Options: censorship, indoctrination, propaganda, terror and repression

Match the word with the picture - answers

A terror and repression

B propaganda

C indoctrination

Put the following events in the correct sequence

A) Enabling Act gives Hitler absolute power.

B) Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi party.

C) Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany.

D) NSDAP becomes largest party in Reichstag elections.

E) The Reichstag burns down.

F) Treaty of Versailles is signed.

Put the following events in the correct sequence - Answers

F) Treaty of Versailles is signed.

B) Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi party.

D) NSDAP becomes largest party in Reichstag elections.

C) Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany.

E) The Reichstag burns down.

A) Enabling Act gives Hitler absolute power.

After 1929: Thanks to the crisis, Hitler’s party grew.

Jan. 1933, Hitler is appointed "chancellor"....

...but the nazis don't have an overall a majority in parliament.

And that is what Hitler wants.

When the Reichstag building is set on fire by a communist,

Hitler seizes the opportunity...

Hitler declares communists state enemies and organises new elections, using propaganda and terror.

the S.A. (Sturm Abteilung) = nazis in uniforms.

They arrest communists and intimidate voters

Reichstag elections March 1933

Nazis (brown) , together with another nationalist party, have an overall majority