HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013 Lecture Eighteen: Germany under the Nazis

Hitler Comes to Power Hitler against Hindenburg Bruning, Papen, and Schleicher July, 1932, the High Point Hitler Appointed Chancellor, January 1933 Reichstag Fire The Election of March, 1933 The Enabling Act

Gleichschaltung Coordination of Bureaucracy and Judiciary Night of the Long Knives Schutzstaffel (SS) Death of Hindenburg Proclamation as Fuhrer

How Hitler Ruled Nazi Symbolism and Propaganda “Working Towards the Fuhrer” The Gestapo and Concentration Camps Economic Policies Why So Little Resistance?

Racial Policies Nazi Concept of Race and “Race Hygiene” Nuremberg Laws 1935 Political Uses of Anti-Semitism Attacks on “Degenerate Art” Eugenics and Euthanasia Kristallnacht, November 1938

Nazi Foreign Policy Decline of the Versailles Consensus Rearmament Nazi Aggressive Diplomatic Stance Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936 Restructuring the Economy toward Militarism

Motivation and Strategy Lebensraum Hossbach Memorandum and Hitler’s Goals Anschluss with Austria The Sudeten Crisis International Situation The Munich Agreement