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1929 – Industrial Germany
hit by Depression
Many joined Communist
Party
(DON’T WRITE THIS BOX)
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.