Hitler and the rise of Nazism
Unemployment is high, workers are angy
Hitler helped provide jobs and recover the economy through work projects (autobahn), live Roosevelt
Brownshirts:
Hitler's henchmen
Used through the late 20's and early 30's to harass opposition parties unmercifully
led by Ernst Rohm
Burning of the Reichstag:
Febuary 1933
Dutch communist 'convicted of the crime'
Hitlerr bullies (with the help of the Brownshirts) the Reichstag into passing the enabling act to face the coming 'communist revolution'
The Enabling act:
Agreed to by the Reichstag in 1933 under threats from the brownshirts (S.A.)
Only 93 Social Democrats voted against it
Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag
despite the lack of freedom of speech or press Hitler only won
Hitler and nazism:
1928 - 12 members in reichstag
1930 - 107
1932 - 230
Hindenburg didnt want them to have chancellorship
1932 nazis fall to 198
hindenburg chooses hitler as chancellor
Night of the Long Knives
30 June 1934 those killed were:
Any would be internal challengers were murdered
Ernst Rohm leader of S.A.
All 'socialists', whom he'd only adopted for electoral reasons
He declared the Schutzstaffel (S.S.) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by hindenburg
a month later hindenburg dies and an election was held where hitler won at 99.5% of the vote
Unemployment is high, workers are angy
Hitler helped provide jobs and recover the economy through work projects (autobahn), live Roosevelt
Brownshirts:
Hitler's henchmen
Used through the late 20's and early 30's to harass opposition parties unmercifully
led by Ernst Rohm
Burning of the Reichstag:
Febuary 1933
Dutch communist 'convicted of the crime'
Hitlerr bullies (with the help of the Brownshirts) the Reichstag into passing the enabling act to face the coming 'communist revolution'
The Enabling act:
Agreed to by the Reichstag in 1933 under threats from the brownshirts (S.A.)
Only 93 Social Democrats voted against it
Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag
despite the lack of freedom of speech or press Hitler only won
Hitler and nazism:
1928 - 12 members in reichstag
1930 - 107
1932 - 230
Hindenburg didnt want them to have chancellorship
1932 nazis fall to 198
hindenburg chooses hitler as chancellor
Night of the Long Knives
30 June 1934 those killed were:
Any would be internal challengers were murdered
Ernst Rohm leader of S.A.
All 'socialists', whom he'd only adopted for electoral reasons
He declared the Schutzstaffel (S.S.) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by hindenburg
a month later hindenburg dies and an election was held where hitler won at 99.5% of the vote