People Flashcards
(35 cards)
Dr hjalmer schacht
President of the reichbank in 1923
Saved the economy with new currency
Nazi between 1933-37
Hugo preuss
Member of liberal ddp
Jewish and a democratic
Drafted new constitution
Theodore Wolff
Liberal Jewish journalist
Founded liberal ddp in 1918
Exiled in 1933 after his books were burned
Walther rathenau
Leading industriaslist
Committed to Jewish assimilation
Ran ww1 economy
Assassinated in 1922
Max alsberg
Leading lawyer in 1920’s
Hitler used his legal practices in films
Killed himself
Erich mendelsohn
Jewish architect
Target of the nazis
Max Reinhardt
Australian Jew
Famous for innovative films
Worked abroad from 1930
Kurt Weill
His cabaret music was popular in the 1920’s
Escaped to Hollywood in the 1930’s
Fritz Lang
Austrian converted catholic
Worked at ufe film studios
His films were alternative
Albert ballin
Founded hamburg American shipping line
During ww1 he was consoled by keister
Became known as keister Jew
Committed suicide in 1918
Adolf hitler
Hated multinationalism By 1920 he was leader of the NSDAP imprisoned in 1923 wrote meine kampf Became chancellor in 1933
Rosa luxenberg
Polish Jew
Involved in spartasist revolution
Symbol for Jewish communist link
Lanz Von liebenfels
Racist ideologue editor of Ostara
Hitler read some of his work and was influenced
Georg Von schonerer
Founded Austria pan German league in 1889
Ideas of Austrian German nationalism and hated Jews
Hitler was influenced by him
Dietrich eckart
Nationalist poet Joined NSFAP in 1919 with anti Semitic views Introduced hurler to Ludendorff Helped buy volkish beobachter Promoted Jewish belshevism
Alfred Rosenberg
Wrote nationalist books
Influential till 1933
Communism was Jewish revolt
Published elders of Zion in 1923
Gottfreid feder
Founded DAP in 1919
Devised 25 point programme
Influential till 1933
Gregor strasser
Hitlers main ideologue rival in the nazi party
Led nazis while hurler was in prison
Killed in night of long knives in 1934
Josef gobbels
Chief nazi propaganda minister
Started as loyal to strasser became loyal to hitler in 1920’s
Party leader in Berlin
Alfred Von hugenberg
Leader of Conservative party
Owned ufe film studios
Hated hurler need him for support
Played a role in making hurler chancellor
Rudolf Hess
Hitlers deputy
Less influence than goebbels, goring and himmler
Flew solo to GB on peace mission in 1941
Hermann goring
Military contacts and aristocratic wife helped nazis early on
Reichstag deputy in 1928
Leader of night of the long knives
Head of four year plan
Heinrich himmler
Head of the ss from 1929
Very anti Semitic
Key role in final solution
Julius streicher
Racist editor of der sturmer
Racist views to violent for some nazis
Hitler stayed loyal till 1940