1. HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY
Junior Cert History- 3rd Year

2. Early career Austrian Blamed Jews for art failure in Vienna
Dispatch rider in German army. 2 Iron crosses. Wounded twice.
Joined Nazi party as gov spy. Became leader.
Munich Putsch. Trial and Jail (Mein Kampf)

3. Hitler’s Ideas Superior Aryan Race must be kept clean. Lebensraum
Jews undermining Germany
Anti-Communist
Abolish Versailles
Weimar weak

4. Why Nazism became popular.
Weak governments
Economic problems
Great depression
Popular policies on Versailles, Communism, Jews.
Violence. SA ‘Brownshirts’ (Rohm) SS and Gestapo (Himmler)
Propaganda
Hitler’s personality (speeches)

5. Becoming a dictator More popular in 1930s. Elected Chancellor in 1933.
SA and SS beat up opponents
Reichstag fire = banned socialists
Enabling law = rule by decree
Banned all other parties.
Became Fuhrer (leader).

6. Propaganda Goebbles was minister in charge Strict censorship
Mass rallies
Olympic games
Books burned and rewritten
Hitler Youth. League of German Maidens (BDM)

7. Successes at home 6 million found jobs in 3 years Autobahns Volkswagen
Rearmament

8. The Jews Anti-Semitism
Nuremberg laws (no citizenship, no intermarriage, star of David)
Crystal Night
Ghettoes
Final Solution.