1. Activity 3.3: Changes in Nazi policies in the 1920s

2. On the next slide is a summary of Nazi policies in the early 1920s
After you have read pages 44–45:
Delete any policies which the Nazis now seem to have dropped
If there are any policies which the Nazis seem to have stopped publicising, make them smaller
For any policies which the Nazis have upgraded, make the box larger
If you think any policies are missing, create a new text box and add them

3. [Insert image of SA with man on p35] [Insert image of tank from p34]
Destroy Marxism
Abolish the Treaty
of Versailles
Destroy the
Weimar Republic
Challenge terror or violence with your own terror or violence
[Insert image of SA with man on p35]
Rearm Germany
[Insert image of tank
from p34]
What did the
Nazis stand for
in the 1920s?
Remove Jews from all
positions of leadership
in Germany
Conquer
Lebensraum
No non-Germans
to be newspaper
editors
Nationalise important
industries
[Insert gate artwork from p34 here]
Increase old -age pensions
[Insert old people image from p35 here]
Educate gifted
children at the state’s
expense
[Insert children image
p35 here]
Strong central
government

4. An historian’s view
In the summer of 1929 Hitler was ‘no more than the leader of a small splinter party, scarcely known outside Bavaria and very likely doomed to remain forever on the fringe of political life’.
What evidence is there to support or oppose this view?

5. Highlight the following points to show which are for the view, and which are against
Membership rose to approximately 120,000 by 1929
Developed sense of policies which were popular
Published Mein Kampf in 1925 and after trial it became a best-seller
By 1928 Nazis decided appealing to working classes was not working
Social Democrats had 153 Reichstag seats in 1928 and Communists had 48
Membership doubled between 1927 and 1928
Nazis ran many public meetings in the 1920s
New members were coming from farmers and middle classes
Repeated subjects which proved popular
Reichstag – just twelve seats in 1928
Discovered anti-Jewish policies had most appeal for working classes