HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013 Lecture Seventeen: The Rise of the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler Background and Temperament Vienna World War I Voelkisch Ideas after World War I The German Workers Party in 1920
Hitler Takes Over the Nazi Party Hitler Attracts Crowds From German Workers Party to National Socialist German Workers Party Party Growth and Hitler’s Preeminence The Sturmabteilung (SA)
Crisis and Lull Julius Streicher and the Spread Outside of Munich The Beer Hall Putsch Hitler in Jail and Banning of Party Mein Kampf
Rebuilding the Party Gregor and Otto Strasser Josef Goebbels and Creation of Propaganda Machine Power by Revolution or Legal Means? The Depression
Who Voted for Hitler? Process of Local Mobilization Lower Middle Class Base Party Growth – ,00 members – ,000 members – ,000 members Right Wing Coalition Skepticism Towards Nazis
The Breakthrough Hitler against Hindenburg Ministry of Franz von Papen July, 1932, the High Point Hitler Appointed Chancellor, January 1933 Reichstag Fire The Election of March, 1932
The Nazi Coup The Enabling Act Death of Hindenburg