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1
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When was the German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) founded?

A

January 1919

2
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When did Hitler and Drexler publish the Twenty Five points programme?

A

February 1920

3
Q

What were the key points of the Twenty Five points programme?

A
  • scrap treaty of Versailles
  • combined left wing with right wing ideas, mass appeal
  • hints at nationalism
  • lebensraum(a living space, place for all German speaking people to live together)
  • Volksgemeinschaft (a people’s community//unification)
  • anti-semitism
4
Q

When did Hitler become chairman of NSDAP?

A

July 1921

5
Q

When did Hitler join NSDAP?

A

September 1919, he was the 55th member. Sent in by the army to spy but ended up believing in the ideology

6
Q

When was the Munich Putsch?

A

November 1923

7
Q

When was the wall street crash?

A

October 1929

8
Q

When did the NSDAP buy the peoples’ observer?

A

December 1920

9
Q

When were the SA created?

A

July 1921

10
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What did the SA engage in on the 4th of November 1921?

A

A running battle with socialists at a political meeting in Munich

11
Q

How many party members did the NSDAP have by mid 1923?

A

55,000

12
Q

Who did the NSDAP want to make president during the Munich Putsch?

A

General Ludendorff

13
Q

What happened to Hitler as a result of the Munich Putsch?

A

He was tried for high treason in February//March 1924

He received a five year sentence

14
Q

Where//when did Hitler write Mein Kampf?

A

In prison, 1924

15
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What were the main points of Mein Kampf?

A

It was Hitlers Weltanschauung.

  • elimination of Jewry from German life
  • the provision of Lebensraum
  • destruction of communism
16
Q

What does Munich Putsch mean?

A

Push for power

17
Q

How many votes did the nazis win in the May 1924 election (in alliance with other parties from the right)

A

1.9 million votes or 6.5%

18
Q

Why was the NSDAP re-founded in 1924?

A

They had a poor showing in the December elections, only winning 3% of the vote

19
Q

What was established at the NSDAP party conference in February 1926 at Bamberg?

A

A new autocratic, central structure
Adherence to the programme of 1920
Obedience to Hitler and the Fuhrerprinzip

20
Q

Define Fuhrerprinzip

A

Established the complete authority of the leader, Hitler

21
Q

Why did Hitler try to quell the SA in 1926?

A

He wanted a semblance of legality for the party

22
Q

What did the SA do in an attempt to show the public that the party had control over its paramilitary arm?

A

Hitler and the other politicians did a staged March over past SA members at Weimar in July 1926

23
Q

When was the Hitler youth founded?

A

1926

24
Q

How did the Nazi party fare in the May 1928 election?

A

Dismally, only 2.6% of the vote

25
Q

What aided the party to rapidly transform in to a mass movement?

A

The creation of Nazi professional bodies in October 1928

26
Q

How did the party draw peasants in to the movement?

A

They founded the AA in 1930, which managed to infiltrate and dominate other important agrarian based organisations such as the Reichslandbund

27
Q

What proportion of Nazi members were under 40 in 1930?

A

2/3

28
Q

How many German workers were unemployed by 1933?

A

1 in 3 or 6 million

29
Q

What proportion of the votes did the nazis win in June 1930 in the saxony landtag?

A

14.4%, which was 9% higher than the previous year

30
Q

How many seats did the nazis win in the September 1930 election?

A

They went from 12 to 107 seats

31
Q

How many new supporters joined the nazis between September 1930 and the end of the year?

A

100,000

32
Q

What did the nazis average in regional elections throughout 1931?

A

40%

33
Q

How many emergency decrees did Bruning pass? What did this show?

A

1930-5
1931-44
1932-66
He saw himself as responsible to the president and not the Reichstag, and so was making action to please him rather than the government

34
Q

What did the emergency decree of April 1932 ban?

A

The SA and SS

35
Q

When did hitler become chancellor?

A

January 1933

36
Q

When was Von Papens Prussian coup d’état?

A

July 1932

37
Q

When did Von Papen dismiss the Prussian government?

A

20th July 1932

38
Q

Why did Von Papen dismiss the government?

A

Under the grounds that political violence meant it had failed to keep the peace

39
Q

How many seats did the Nazi party win in 1932?

A

230 seats or 37.3% of the vote

40
Q

When did the Nazi party become the largest in the Reichstag?

A

1932

41
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What was the significance of the 1932 election

A

It gave the Nazi party legitimacy

42
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What made the NSDAP party attractive to other parties as an ally?

A

If was a mass movement with a broad base of popular support

43
Q

Where was the Nazi vote the weakest?

A

Urban areas which were dominated by the working class

44
Q

What was Volksgemeinschaft

A

A national community based on racial identity

45
Q

What was a vote for the Nazi party seen as a protest against?

A

The failure of the parties of the Weimar Republic and the political system itself

46
Q

How many votes did the DNVP gain from workers in 1924?

A

2 million- it’s assumed the Nazi party attracted these voters by the turn of the decade

47
Q

When did Hitler open discussions with Von Papen about the conditions of which he would join the government?

A

August 1932

48
Q

What political stalemate did the 1932 elections reinforce?

A

Hindenburg wanted to continue presidential government but refused to appoint Hitler as chancellor until he achieved a majority in the Reichstag
The Nazi had the ability, with the centre party, to vote down a government at will

49
Q

Who was offered vice chancellorship when Von Schleicher was chancellor?

A

Gregor strasser, a leading and popular Nazi figure

50
Q

What happened as a result of schleichers economic policy in 1932?

A

It was seen as far too left wing, so initiatives were undertaken to create a government of the right, which would include NSDAP and Von Papen

51
Q

When was Hitler appointed chancellor?

A

30th January 1930

52
Q

How many nazis were in Hitlers first government?

A

Three, hitler as chancellor, frick as minister for the interior and goring as minister without portfolio

53
Q

What did the hitlerite regime need to be to establish a broad political consensus?

A

Perceived as legitimate, law abiding and respectable

54
Q

When was Hitlers appeal to the German people?

A

1st February 1933

55
Q

When was the Police reinforced by SA ‘volunteers’

A

22nd February 1933

56
Q

What does Gleichschaltung mean?

A

Coordination

57
Q

When was the head office of the KPD ransacked? What did goring claim to find?

A

24th February 1933, evidence of plans for a communist takeover

58
Q

When was the Reichstag fire?

A

27th February 1933

59
Q

What gave the Nazi party the legal means to begin the seizure of power?

A

The Reichstag fire

60
Q

What emergency decree did the Nazi party issue in order to seize power?

A

The protection of people and state, February 28th

61
Q

What did the Nazi party suspend that was enshrined in the Weimar constitution?

A

Freedom of press, speech and assembly

62
Q

How many political prisoners were in custody in Prussia in April 1933?

A

25,000

63
Q

How many seats did the nazis win in the March election of 1933?

A

288

64
Q

Who did the nazis ban from the Reichstag despite them winning 4.8 million votes

A

All communist kpd deputies

65
Q

When did Hitler present the enabling act to the Reichstag?

A

23rd March 1933

66
Q

What did the enabling act grant Hitler?

A

Four years of power as a dictator

67
Q

What did the enabling act essentially do?

A

Vote the Reichstag out of existence, the government no longer needed to consult them to pass laws

68
Q

When did hitler dissolve all local government?

A

31st March 1933

69
Q

When were trade unions disbanded?

A

2nd may 1933

70
Q

When were the SPD banned?

A

22nd June 1933

71
Q

What happened on the 14th of July 1933?

A

The Nazi party was declared the only legal party in Germany

72
Q

When did the Catholic Church sign the concordat?

A

20th July 1933