1. Rise of Hitler: Step by Step

2. 1929-1939: World Wide Economic Depression!!
World Wide Effects
High rates of unemployment, famine, poverty…
Led to political shifts
Communism
PRE-WWII
Communism
WWII
Fascism
Fascism

3. Setting the Stage:
After several failed coups, a jail sentence, and the writing of Mein Kampf…
1932: The Nazi Party gets more Reichstag (German Legislature) seats than any other political party; German President Hindenberg asks Hitler to be Prime Minister & form a government.

4. 1934: Hitler becomes the German dictator or the “fuhrer”

5. Step #1: Step #2: Creation of a TOTALITARIAN STATE
banned all opposition
Step #2:
Creation of the SS (Schutzstaffel)
Elite “protection” squad
Loyal ONLY to Hitler

6. Step #3: Step #4: Creation of the Nazi “Propaganda Machine”
Took command of the German economy
GREATLY improved conditions
Step #4:
Creation of the Nazi “Propaganda Machine”
Press, radio, literature, art, film
Youth Indoctrination
Hitler Youth (boys) & League of Germans (girls)

7. Step #5: Step #6: Anti-Semitic Policies
Jewish people used as scapegoats
Nuremberg Laws ( )
Kristallnacht (1938)
Step #6:
from an anti-semitic children's book - the sign reads "Jews are not wanted here"
The headlines say "Jews are our misfortune" and "How the Jew cheats." Germany, 1936.
Dream of creating the “THIRD REICH,” or the Third German Empire