Hitler Flashcards
1
Q
what nazis wanted
A
- abolish TOV
- anschloss
- exclude jews (and non-true germans)
- lebensraum
2
Q
Munich Putsch
A
- Hitler invades local gov. meeting and takes leaders hostage
- Hitler + SA + Gen. Von Ludendorff = confronted by police and arrested
- NSDAP banned
3
Q
short-term effect of Munich Putsch
A
- humiliation
- Hitler arrested
- NSDAP banned
4
Q
long-term effects of Munich Putsch
A
- a lot of publicity
- support from important figured (light sentence)
5
Q
effect of great depression on germany
A
- banks lost a lot of money
- people thought they would lose their money in banks and withdrew it all
- american investments stopped
- americans recalled their loans
- unemployment rose= people turned to extremist parties
6
Q
why nazis succeeded in elections
A
- nazi campaigning (hitler was good speaker, posters/films/radios, attacked scapegoats)
- Negative cohesion (shared same fears as nazis)
- disillusionment with democracy (unsatisfied with Weimar gov)
- communist threat (businesses/ farmers feared communism, people feared trade unions)
- decadence (traditional german values were being lost)
- weak opposition
7
Q
how hitler became chancellor
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- 1932 = nazis were largest single party, hitler demanded to be chancellor (hindenburg was suspicious and refused)
- 1932 = hindenburg needed chancellor with reichstag support
- 1933= Hitler chancellor
8
Q
reichstag fire
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- reichstag building burned down
- dutch communist (marinus van der lubbe) found near scene
- hind. gave emerg. powers to hitler
- hitler suspended civil liberties and increased police powers (with SA)
9
Q
enabling act
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- ss and sa intimidate reichstag to pass enabling act
- hitler could pass laws without consulting reichstag
- communists banned
- banned trade unions
- banned other political parties
- took over all state govs
- hitler = virtual dictator
10
Q
night of the long knives
A
- army leaders sus of rohm and unsatisfied with hitler
- hitler sus of rohm and thought he was a threat
- ss squads invaded rohm and other sa figures’ homes and arrested them (hitler accused them of plotting to kill him) (killed them)
- hindenburg/ army = happy
11
Q
The army oath
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- hind. died
- enabling act used to abolish president position and combine its powers to chancellor’s position
- Hitler= fuhrer
- army swore oath of loyalty to hitler
12
Q
hitler scapegoats
A
- jews
- political opponents
- gays
- trade unionists
- communists
- gypsies
- work shy
- pacifists
- criminals
- prostitutes
- any opposition
13
Q
The SS
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- Blackshirts
- hitler’s bodyguards
- led by Heinrich Himmler
- were aryans
- crushed opposition and carried out racial policies
14
Q
The gestapo
A
- secret police
- led by Reinhard Heydrich
- arrested and sent to camps
- network of informers
15
Q
concentration camps
A
- opposition sent there
- limited food, beatings, executions, labour
