Notes
- Steps to power:
- 1928 - 12 members of Nazi party elected to Reichstag
- 1930 - 107 seats out of 647
- 1932 - 230 seats out of 647 which made them the largest party
- President Hindenburg refused to give Hitler the Chancellorship
- 1932 (second election) Nazis fall to 198 seats
- Hindenburg chooses Hitler as Chancellor as a tool against the Communists
- 1933 Feb. (Reichstag fire election) 288 seats (majority due to imprisonment of Communist members)
- 1933 March Enabling Act
- Forms the Gestapo (secret police)
- 1920 Hitler joined the German Workers Party (anti-weimar republic)
- He soon became its leader
- Changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI)
- This party created the brownshirted S.A. led by Ernst Rohm a paramilitary force designed after Mussolini's Blackshirts
- 1928, 12 Nazis are elected to the Reichstag out of 647 seats
- Hitler kills everyone in the NAZI party he does not trust.
- 1934 - President Hindenburg dies and an election was help which voted Hitler in as President
- won 99.9% of the votes were for Hitler
- Came into power legally
Summary
Fascist group (NAZI), The Great Depression was a huge cause of NAZI's becoming known. They soon began to be violent with opposing citizens or party's which made it very difficult to others to win elections. Reichstag was burnt down by the NAZI's, and blamed it on a communist. The Enabling Act allowed Hitler to gain ultimate power with the government supporting him.
Quotes
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach." - Hitler
Subjunctive Questions
Could of someone else won over the people and take over the government, but without ending up fascist?