Hitler's Rise to Power Flashcards
(52 cards)
when did Hitler join the army?
1914
give a list of groups of people who voted Nazi.
- people afraid of the KPD
- farmers
- socialists
- middle class
- some women
- upper classes
- nationalists
- patriotic militaristic young people who wanted to be part of germany’s bright future
why would farmers vote Nazi?
- nazis promised better life quality and higher prices for their produce
- they had been hit hard by the depression
- they hated communists (worried the land they’d owned for generation would be taken from them)
why would socialists vote Nazi?
- Nazis told them pensions would improve
- public industries such as electricity and water would be owned by the state.
why would the middle classes vote Nazi?
- wages had been cut - fell by 39% from 1929 to 1932
- feared break down of law and order
- wanted strong gvt
- over 10,000 businesses closed every year from 1929-32
from 929-32 by what % did wages fall by?
30%
between 1929 and 1932, how many businesses closed every year?
10,000
why would some women vote nazi?
- seeked a traditional family life
- thought they were self-disciplined with good morals
- were worried about the youth
why would the upper classes vote nazi?
- ‘good old days’
- promised to allow then to run their factories as they chose
- didn’t support everything
- plan to increase production
- remilitarisation
why would nationalists vote nazi?
- they promised all German-speaking people would be united in one country
- Treaty of Versailles would be abandoned
- special laws for foreigners.
how did the nazis use propaganda to rise to power?
- aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability.
- built an image of Hitler as a strong, stable leader that Germany needed to become a great power again.
what are some examples of nazi propaganda schemes?
- ‘Bread and Work’, aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment
- ‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman
- Jews and Communists featured heavily as enemies of the German people.
when did Goebbels join the Nazi party?
1924
when did Goebbels become the Gauleiter for Berlin?
1926
how did Goebbels make effective Nazi propaganda?
used a combination of modern media (films and radio) and traditional campaigning tools (posters, newspapers, leaflets) to reach as many people as possible.
how was the Munich Putsch useful to Hitler?
- created a media sensation in which hitler criticised gvt and put forward his own views
- showed hitler he would not be able to take power by force so decided to change tactic and focus on winning support democratically and being elected into power.
- presented his 25-point program for the creation of a Nazi state and society
what was Hitler’s 25-point program for the creation of a Nazi state and society?
- extreme nationalism
- racial antisemitism
- rejected ToV
- socialist concepts - raising pensions (only for ‘germans’)
- improve health and education
- aryan superiority
when was the Bamberg Conference?
February 1926
what happened during the Bamberg Conference?
- some small differences remained, but Hitler was largely successful in reuniting the socialist and nationalist sides of the party.
- restructured the Nazi Party to make it more efficient; made a new framework
- new groups for different professions, from children, to doctors, to lawyers - aimed to infiltrate already existing social structures, and help the party gain more members and supporters.
why did the Bamberg Conference occur?
Hitler wanted to reunify the party, and set out a plan
what was the new framework of the Nazi party, agreed during the Bamberg Conference?
divided Germany into regions called Gaue. Each Gaue had its own leader, a Gauleiter. Each Gaue was then divided into subsections, called Kreise. Each Kreise then had its own leader, called a Kreisleiter. Each Kreise was then divided into even smaller sections, each with its own leader, and so on. Each of these sections were responsible to the section above them, with Hitler at the very top of the party with ultimate authority.
how was the Bamberg Conference useful for Hitler?
political changes changed Nazi Party from a paramilitary organisation focused on overthrowing the republic by force, to one focused on gaining power through elections and popular support.
who were the SA?
paramilitary organisation known as ‘brownshirts’ due to brown uniform made of mostly ex-soldiers or unemployed men.
- Violent and often disorderly and were primarily responsible for protection of leading Nazis and disrupting political opponents’ meetings
why and how did Hitler try to change the SA’s reputation?
- If Hitler was to gain power democratically, he needed to reform the SA. so he tried to change their reputation.
- new leader, Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, was put in place in 1926
- Salomon was stricter and gave the SA a more defined role
