4.3 The path to power

4.3 The path to power
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4.3 The path to power

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

At the end of this lesson...
  • You will be able to explain why people were drawn to Hitler and the NSDAP.

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

But first...
What do you remember?

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Explain in your own words what the Dawes Plan entailed.

Slide 4 - Open vraag

What is the Wall Street Crash?

Slide 5 - Open vraag

  • Overproduction in the agriculture sector (WW1)
  • Much is bought on credit (debts)
  • Lots of trust in stocks/investments.
Black Thursday (October 24th 1929)
Companies and banks go bankrupt
Poverty
Decline in trade causes a global economic crisis

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

New subject matter
Make notes IN YOUR NOTEBOOK

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Opportunity
  • Germany was hit hard by the Wall Street Crash.

  • Most of Germany became unemployed.

  • The Germans started to wish for a more powerful leader who could help them get out of the crisis...

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

The NSDAP
  • After his release from prison, Hitler manages to make the NSDAP (=National Socialist German Workersparty) one of the biggest parties in Germany. 

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

Slide 10 - Video

The ideas of the NSDAP:
  • Getting rid of the Treaty of Versailles: It was humiliating and a disgrace.
  • Getting rid of the Weimar Republic: The stab-in-the-back-myth. The government has betrayed their people during WWI.
  • Getting rid of the unemployment: The NSDAP helps people find a job and get and back on their feet.

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

But what is the NSDAP exactly?
  • A nationalistic party: Hitler wants to make Germany powerful again. A country to be proud of.

  • An authoritarian party: They don't believe in democracy.

Slide 12 - Tekstslide

Propaganda
  • People weren't just drawn to Hitler's appealing campaign promises. Propaganda played a major role as well.
  • Hitler himself became part of the propaganda. People are impressed by his speeches and are drawn to him.
  • Hitler's colleague (and later ''minister of propaganda'') Joseph Goebbles becomes head of this propaganda campaign. 

Slide 13 - Tekstslide

Slide 14 - Video

Violence
  • The Nazis use violence  to intimidate their opponents.
  • They use the SA (Sturmabteilung) for this. 
  • Their leader is called Ernst Röhm

Slide 15 - Tekstslide

Why were people drawn to the NSDAP?

Slide 16 - Open vraag

Homework
Paragraph 4.3 exercise 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6

Slide 17 - Tekstslide