The Interwar Period

Part III

The Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany

• A new government took over when the Kaiser abdicated.

• It was led by Friedrich Ebert.

• G was now a republic.

Nazi Germany

• Joseph Goebbels• Devoted to Hitler• Chancellor of Germany• Minister of Propaganda• Strongly Anti-Semitic• Organized Kristallnacht

• Herman Goering• President of Reichstag• Commander of Luftwaffe• Military background

Himmler

SchutzstaffelSS

• German for "Protective Squadron"

• Elite Nazi military and special police force

• Responsible for many of the crimes against humanity

Röhm

Gestapo! Geheime Staatspolizei: "Secret State Police” • Power to operate without judicial oversight • Power to imprison people without judicial

proceedings– Prisoner had to sign his own Schutzhaftbefehl,

declaring that he had requested imprisonment

• Chancellor: Heinrich Brünning.

• President: Paul von Hindemburg.

I didn’t have the support of the Parliament

so…I had to call for new

elections

I demand to be made

Chancellor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t trust Hitler…I will reappoint

von Papen

Mr. Hitler, do you want to be vice-chancellor?

I’ll rather wait for the next set of elections

We lost 34

seats!!!

I will call von

Schleicher as

Chancellor

Nazis should be weakened

I will choose the nazi Strasser to be vice-

Chancellor instead of Hitler

Don’t accept it, ok?

I won’t, mein

Führer!

What a mess! What should I do…? I rather offer Hitler the post of

Chancellor…

Great idea!

I will call for new elections…perhaps we could win some

more seats

I still have some opposition…I will

declare the Communist party

illegal

I will also sign the Enabling Act, which

will enable me to govern for 4 years

without the Parliament

Röhm is my political opponent. I should

assassinate him and his SA men…

I’m now President+Chancellor