Recognize this kid?
The rise of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
Objectives:
• The objective of this presentation is to give
students an understanding of Adolf Hitler’s
rise to power.
• Students will also become familiar with how
the Nazi party gained power
Overall Purpose:
The overall purpose of this
presentation is to explain
how this little boy on the
left became the man on the
right who was ultimately
responsible for the death of
about 50 million people all
over the world!!
(a bit of background) Weimar
Republic
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Kaiser abdicates after the war
Parliamentary govt. after WWI
Led by a chancellor
Widely viewed as weak
Horrific inflation, some recovery but then
the depression hit…
QW
How does presenting Hitler this way
soften his image?
Birth
• Adolf Hitler was
born on April 20,
1889 in Braunau,
Austria.
Parents
signature
signature
Military Service
This is a picture of Hitler listening to an enlistment speech.
World War I
• Excited to fight for
Germany.
• Was awarded the Iron
Cross twice. (5 medals
overall)
• Hitler was devastated
when he heard the
news of the German
surrender.
German Worker’s Party
• Despised the Weimar
govt. which he saw as
weak
• 1919 Joins a group of
right wing extremists
NAZI Party is Formed
• Within a year he was
undisputed leader of
the National Socialist
German Worker’s
Party or the NAZIS
Beer Hall Putsch
• October 30, 1923
• Hitler held a rally in
Munich beer hall and
declared revolution
• Led 2000 men in take
over the Bavarian
Government
• It failed and Hitler was
imprisoned
15th Anniversary Of Beer Hall Putsch
Mein Kampf/My Struggle
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Written while in jail
Extreme nationalism
Racism
Anti-Semitism –
Blamed Jews for
nearly everything
• Master Race Aryans
Legal Rise to Power
• Used popularity from
failed revolution and
book to seize power
legally
• Spoke to mass
audiences about
making Germany a
great nation again
• Hitler becomes
Chancellor in 1933
Appeal of Hitler
• Germany was in the midst of an economic
depression with hyper-inflation
• Hitler was a WW I hero who talked about bringing
glory back to the “Fatherland”
• He promised the rich industrialists that he would
end any communist threat in Germany
• Used the Jews as a scapegoat
• Promised to rearm Germany
• Hitler was a dramatic public speaker.
•"I was carried on the wave of the enthusiasm
which ... bore the speaker along from sentence
to sentence,“
chief Nazi architect, Albert Speer, recalled of
one Nazi rally.
"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a
big lie than to a small one“ AH
Link 1:05
Link rally in color 1:33
QW
• Based on the video clips what kinds of
things do we need to watch for to avoid
being influenced by someone who is a
fanatic?
Strong Arm Tactics
• The “Brownshirts” or SA
(Stormtroopers)
• SA was used to put down
opposition parties
• Threatened and beat up
Jews and ant-Nazi voters
• Numbered almost 400,000
by 1932
Dictator
• “Reichstag fire” gives
Hitler total power
• In 1933, all parties
were outlawed except
the Nazi party
• People’s civil rights
were suspended
Absolute Power
• German economy was
improving, people
were happy
• Hitler had no political
opposition
• 1st concentration
camp opened in 1933
• Began rearming
German Army for
expansion of the Reich
"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and
regular employment of violence.“ AH
"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who
fear it to imitate it."
QW
• What are the warning signs someone is a
bad politician?
Hitler Highlights
• Nuremberg Laws: 1935, Deprived Jews of
citizenship. Could not marry non-Jews, teach at
German schools, hold govt. Jobs, be doctors
lawyers, or publishers
• Kristalnacht (Night of Broken Glass) : Nov. 1938,
Hitler orders a night of violence against Jews.
1000’s of businesses and homes and synagogues
attacked.
• Night of the Long Knives: On this night, Hitler
removed his political enemies.
First They Came for
the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the
Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade
unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
THE
END
.......................Until the start of World War II