Alyssa Brewer

October 29, 1929Black Tuesday.The Stock Market crashed in Germany. Within days, millions of people living in Germany lost their jobs.

December 1929.The Nazi Party has grown to a membership of 178 000.

1929

September 1930:German Federal Elections.The Nazi Party went from controlling 12 parliamentary seats to 107.

1930:Hitler hired a lawyer.Hans Frank became the Nazis personal lawyer. High ranking Nazis were being charged for “high treason” in 1930, due to the 40 000 from 1927-1930 cases the courthouse had heard about.1930

1930

1931 January 1:The Nazi Brown House.The Nazi Brown house was the official national headquarters of the Nazi Party.

October 1931:The Meeting.Right winged officials, political leaders, German Nationalists, and the Nazi Party in Bad Harzburg. Here, the Austro-German customs union was introduced, and it was demanded that the BruningGovernment in the Reich and the Social Democratic-Centrist coalition was to be discontinued immediately.

1931

March 1932.Elections.In 1932, the Nazi Party had obtained 107 seats, which was a much greater number than the previous election. In 1932, the Nazi Party took control of 230 seats. The Communists rose to 89 seats, which showed that the Germans were looking up at the extremist groups.

October 16, 1932.Schweinfurt.Hitler travelled to Schweinfurt where he spoke to 12 000 people. Soon after, he became the Chancellor of Germany.

1932

1932

January 1933:Chancellor.Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The very first days of 1933, and the last days of the Weimar Republic, 6 million people were unemployed, and Hitler was here to change Germany.

All of 1933:Taking control.Throughout 1933, Hitler boycotted Jewish businesses, persecuted homosexuals, and burned books.

1933

1933

January 2, 1934Sterilization.A German Law passes that sterilization of the “unfit” will begin.

August 1, 1934Death of the President.President Hindenburg dies of natural causes. Hitler quicklyproclaims himself both Chancellor and Fuehrer of the German People

1934

1934

March 10, 1935Testing.Hitler tests strength of Treaty of Versailles. Calls in British newspaper man Ward Price and tells him that Germany now has a military Air Force. There was no reaction from Britain. They intend to continue their peace movement with Germany.

September 15, 1935Citizenship.Nuremberg Laws define Reich Citizenship. 1.) Only belong to Germany if of kindred blood.2.) All Jews were defined as being not of German blood.

1935

March 7 1936Testing.Re-occupation of the Rhineland. In contravention of theterms of the Versailles Treaty, Hitler sent German troops to re-occupy the Rhineland.

December 1936 Hitler Youth.Law concerning the Hitler Youth made membership of the Hitler Youth compulsory for all boys

1936

April 11, 1937Citizenship for Jews = Nothing.A new order from the German Ministry of the Interiordeprives all Jews of municipal citizenship.

July 19, 1937Camps.Ettersberg, a new concentration camp, originally designed for professional criminals, is opened in central Germany. Its name is changed to Buchenwald on July 28.

1937

1937

March 12, 1938.The First Army Invasion.Adolf Hitler ordered the German Army into Austria. This was a huge deal to the German people because the German speaking people in Austria had wanted to unite with the German Republic, but were forbidden to do so by the Treaty of Versailles.

November 9, 1938Crystal Night.Joseph Goebbels organizes Crystal Night. 7500 Jewish shops were destroyed and 400 synagogues were burnt to the ground.

1938

March 15/16, 1939Seized.Nazi troops seize Czechoslovakia (Jewish pop. 350,000).September 1, 1939 Seized.Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop. 3.35 million, the largest in Europe). Beginning of SS activity in Poland.

October 1939.Euthanization. Hitler ordered widespread "mercy killing" of the sick and disabled. They were focused on newborns and very young children. Midwives and doctors were required to register children up to age three who showed symptoms of mental retardation, physical deformity, or other symptoms included on a questionnaire from the Reich Health Ministry.

1939

1939

The Effects of Nationalism on

Hitler’s Rise to Power.

1.The Stock Market Crash.

When the stock market crashed in 1929, Germany and all its people had absolutely nothing to their name, nor their

country. They had previously lost their dignity by the Treaty of Versailles, and now they lost their homes and lives. They were nobodies, and the whole population of

Germany had lost their identity. When you have nothing or feel hopeless, you look for something that will become you and when Hitler vowed to give the Germans a name,

they were willing to take it. Feeling lost can lead to destructible things. The feeling of being alone, weak and vulnerable can lead to extreme actions and decisions. It is number one because if the Germans had wealth and

confidence, they would have not needed Hitler.

2.Hitler’s Rebellion to theTreaty of Versailles.

The Treaty of Versailles had taken away everything that gave the Germans power. Their oil, industries, and even

other Germans had been ripped from them. Territory, regions, water ways, and military, which had once meant

plenty to the German name, were gone. When Hitler rebelled against the Treaty, the people were ecstatic and

shocked. He had gone against Europe and had been successful. He was taking back what rightfully belonged to the Germans. He was giving back their nation’s name, which meant he was grabbing hold of a collective identity.

3.Death of the President

The economy after the stock market crash was a mess. Billions of people had lost their jobs, and the inflation of

money had only made the Germans saving worthless. However, President Hindenburg had started to bring

back the economy during the Weimar Republic. He was also the only thing keeping Hitler’s rapid growth and

strength at bay. When he died in 1934, Germany lost its only stable possession. The German people had started to look towards extremist ideas for extreme times, and

when their president died, they were ready to try anything to have some identity. Because of Hitler’s rapid

growth, powerful speeches, and perfect promises, it seemed a good choice to have him President of

Germany.

4. Rapid Growth in The Nazi Party-Strength, violence and votes.

Extreme times call for extreme ideas. Hitler had just those. He vowed to give Germans a name again, to take back

what is rightfully theirs, and give back families what they had lost. When the votes for the Nazi Party started to

grow, so did their strength. As their strength grew, so did the violence. Although the violence scared many civilians, it gave them hope and power. With this

violence, they could take back Germany. With the fear and hope, came more votes. The more votes, came more speeches, and it was a never ending cycle until Hitler fully

had power. With more and more German citizens coming together, the more identity they had. No one

could fail, and the Germans were equal. They had equal blood and equal ideas. They had some identity back.

5.Violence, Power, and Purity.The more violence brought into Germany, the more power

some people had. The more people who had power, just caused greed in others. As a collective identity grew

through the violence and power, greed and ideas came about. As the Nazis grew and showed the German

people the strength that was with them all, the thought of a pure Germany was too much for some. The idea of rising to the top, being unstoppable and untouchable,

caused people to join the Nazi Party and attack the Jews. It also gave them the confidence to take back regions that had been taken away. When they got more, they

wanted more. This, again, was a never ending cycle. And somehow, Hitler had encouraged enough people that the

only way they could ever have their lives back was to have no people in Germany that were not Germans.

Purity was key.

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