1929 – Industrial Germany

hit by Depression

Many joined Communist

Party

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September 1928 = 650,000 unemployed

September 1929 = 1,320,000 unemployed

September 1930 = 3,000,000 unemployed

September 1931 = 4,350,000 unemployed

September 1932 = 5,102,000 unemployed

January 1933 = 6,100,000 unemployed

Some joined the

Nazi Party

The SA (brown

shirts) brought the

fight to the streets of

Germany.

• Hitler gives Joseph

Goebbels the task of

spreading the Nazi

message

• Hitler went to the industrialists for money.

• Promised a strong work force

• Protection from Communism

• Between 1930 – 1932 Nazis put together

three large campaigns

• 1928 – Nazi’s had 12 seats in

Reichstag

• 1930 – 107 seats

• 1932 – 230 seats

• President

Hindenburg backs

Hitler

• Hitler convinced

Hindenburg that

the Nazi party for

be tamed.

•January 30,

1933 Hitler

is appointed

Chancellor

of Germany

• 1st act – call for another election

• “after giving the other parties 14

years, I ask for 4”

• Privately – Hitler saw this as last

election, he had no intention of

tolerating other parties.

• 1 week before election the Reichstag building went up in flames.

• The Nazi’s

blamed the

Communists

• Hitler used the fire to persuade

Hindenburg to sign a decree.

• This decree allowed Hitler to force his

opponents into jails.

• March 1933 – Nazis had 288 seats

• The Nazis controlled the Reichstag

•The Reichstag became filled with storm troopers.

• Hermann

Goering

was the

head of

the

Reichstag

• Hitler demanded and got an Enabling Act

• This act allowed him to make his own laws.

• Soon many political parties were abolished.

• Their leaders placed in concentration camps.

• Hitler’s men began holding book

burnings.

• The SA (storm

troopers) wanted more

say in how the country

was run.

• Rohm wanted control

of the general army.

• June 30th

1934 (Night

of the Long

Knives)

• Rohm and

many other

leaders

were

murdered.

• Heinrich Himler and the SS were

Hitlers instruments of death.

• Hitler justified those deaths to the Reichstag

• “for those 24 hours I was the supreme court of justice”

• Himler

would later

be given

control of the

concentration

camps and

the German

secret police.

• August 1933 Hindenburg dies.

• Immediately Hitler makes himself Fuhrer

• All soldiers swear a oath of loyalty to him alone.