1. Rise of the Nazis, 1919-1933 fascism: right-wing, nationalist, anti- capitalist, anti-Semitic, völkisch Volksgemeinschaft = people’s community communism: extreme left- wing; radical form of socialism socialismliberalismcenter: moderate ground on political spectrum conservatismfascism: extreme right-wing; includes Nazism Basic Model of the Political Spectrum Free Corps: A band of WWI veterans, anti-Weimar Republic and proto-fascist (early fascists). Notice the swastika armbands.

2. National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) = Nazi Party Nazi Leaders, c. 1923: General Erich Ludendorff in center, Adolf Hitler to the right. My Struggle (1925)

3. Hitler’s Goal: SPACE Territorial Losses WWI Early Nazi Expansion, 1936-1941 Lebensraum = living space

4. Hitler’s Goal: RACE “One People/Race (Volk), one Empire, one Leader!” Morning after Night of Broken Glass, Berlin street, 1938: Pogrom organized by the Nazis and executed by the SA.

5. Legal Takeover Great Depression President Paul von Hindenburg and Chancellor Adolf Hitler, May 1933

6. Reichstag (Parliament) Elections

7. Enabling Act & Terror SA (Storm Troopers) forcing political prisoners to scrub anti-Nazi slogans off a wall, March 1933. SS (Protection Squad) greeting Hitler; Heinrich Himmler is behind Hitler, to his immediate right, April 1938.

8. Coercion or Consent? Coercion: prisoners in Oranienburg, Berlin, April 1933.

9. Coercion or Consent? Consent: 1933 postcard. “Walk with ‘Strength through Joy,’” the Nazi leisure organization.

10. Ministry of Public Enlightenment & Propaganda Joseph Goebbels at his desk, March 1933. Leni Riefenstahl, looking through the lens of a large camera, on set of Triumph of the Will (1935): http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=GHs2coAzLJ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=GHs2coAzLJ8