1. IDs and Definitions Hofbrauhaus Mein Kampf

2. Questions and Imperatives Describe the origins of the Nazi Party in Germany. How did it move to gain power in Germany?

3. Beginning of the Nazis Nazi Party: German Workers Party (DAP) founded January 1919 in Munich with Anton Drexler as its leader – Drexler envisioned a völkisch German state focused on broad middle- class interests, and a purge of foreigners and Jews (story of Hitler’s job after the war) Ernst Roehm had recruited him as a civilian investigator; his job was to find out what was going on in meetings of any extremist parties; Hitler checked on the DAP – At first Hitler found the meeting boring and was ready to leave; he was then drawn into discussion about Bavarian separatism, which vehemently opposed – Hitler was invited back and joined joined the DAP in September (party # 555) and became the 7 th member of the executive committee Soon, name of party changed to NSDAP anti-Semitism characterized its meetings

5. 1919-1921 1919-1921 – violent anti-Semitic pogroms swept through Poland and the Ukraine, with many Jews injured and killed (60,000) February 1920: first mass meeting of the NSDAP in Munich’s Hofbrauhaus: Hitler established the party program (perhaps with Drexler’s help) 1921: Ernst Roehm formed the Brown Shirts (SA), a paramilitary group; the swastika appeared and would be used as the symbol for the Nazi party – SA seemed mostly to be thugs, watched out for party leaders Summer 1921: Hitler becomes party’s first chairman with dictatorial powers; Nazi party based on leadership principle of a fuehrer (leader)

8. Better Organization beginning of Hitler Youth and SS – Adolf Hitler Boys Storm Troop, later called Hitler Youth (1926) – Shock Troop Adolf Hitler, nucleus for SS founded the next year, an elite version of the SA (black uniforms with “ss”), brutal, but in a refined sort of way, initially Hitler’s guard and later elite armed guard of the Third Reich (lead by Heinrich Himmler) 1922: foreign minister Walther Rathenau, a Jew, is assassinated Jewish graves are desecrated throughout Germany for next 20 years Hitler gave talks at rallies to get people to believe in “stab in the back” theory

10. 1923 Hyper-inflation, the currency becomes worthless (German mark traded 4 billion to one U.S. $) we see the first issue of the pro-Nazi anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) published in Nuremberg; its slogan was “The Jews are our misfortune,” a quote picked up from Heinrich von Treitschke Der Sturmer banned by Weimar Republic soon after its beginnings, but resumes printing in 1925; The Nazi JULIUS STREIKER edited newspaper “Der Sturmer”...convinced Hitler to hold Nazi rallies in Nuremberg. Jewish homes are burned in Berlin 1923 putsch in Munich (putsch is an uprising), party attempted to take over the government, Hitler was arrested and spent about 9 months in prison, writing Mein Kampf (transcribed by Rudolph Hess, also in prison for Putsch)…the book will be published in 1925/26…and editions continued

12. Best way for Nazis to take power??

13. The End of the Beginning Weimar had banned Hitler from speaking (1925), but lifted that ban in 1927 Joseph Goebbels published the first issue of the anti-Semitic Der Angriff (The Attack). It was founded to rally Nazi Party members because of the ban on the Nazi Party in Berlin 1929: Hitler appoints Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer-SS Nazi Party day rally held in Nuremberg in August 1929 and draws over 100,000 people Great Depression hit this gave the Nazis the boost they needed the center parties had helped to stabilize the Republic??? with the Depression, German citizens looked to the extreme parties Nazi’s increased their seats in the Reichstag

15. The End of the Beginning Weimar had banned Hitler from speaking (1925), but lifted that ban in 1927 Joseph Goebbels published the first issue of the anti-Semitic Der Angriff (The Attack). It was founded to rally Nazi Party members because of the ban on the Nazi Party in Berlin 1929: Hitler appoints Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer-SS Nazi Party day rally held in Nuremberg in August 1929 and draws over 100,000 people Great Depression hit this gave the Nazis the boost they needed the center parties had helped to stabilize the Republic??? with the Depression, German citizens looked to the extreme parties Nazi’s increased their seats in the Reichstag

16. Political Parties in the Reichstag May 1924 Dec. 1924 May 1928 Sep. 1930 July 1932 Nov. 1932 Mar. 1933 Communist Party (KPD) 624554778910081 Social Democratic Party (SDP) 100131153143133121120 Catholic Centre Party (BVP) 81887887979093 Nationalist Party (DNVP) 9510373413752 Nazi Party (NSDAP) 321412107230196288 Other Parties102112121122223523

17. Election for President 1932 German banks forced to close for financial reasons for a month in summer 1931 Hitler speaks to German industrialists in 1932 as he makes his bid for the presidency 1932 election for President: Hindenburg, Hitler, and Thaelmann Hitler had enough votes to force a second vote against Hindenburg Hindenburg won, but Hitler’s following increased having been in the spotlight