1. Again the Treaty of Versailles
consequences
Economic
crisis
These
Poverty
German feelings of
people betrayal
considered were
Suddenly that the made
, they Treaty was a worse by
shame for
surrendere
Until 1918 d and
their
country.
the terms
of the Unemployment
the made People took Treaty of
German peace . to the Versailles
army was German streets in and their
won the people angry mass consequen
war didn´t demonstratio - ces
ns against
understand
anything
the treaty
People
Hyperinflation
blamed the
government
for giving in
and the bad
feeling didn´t
go away

2. Consequences of hyperinflation
Wages and prices kept rising even several times a day
Everyone struggled to buy food and clothes and heat their homes
Peoples who had fixed incomes , such as pensioners, found their money was
worthless
People who had borrowed money could pay it back easily because wages
rose rapidly and loans were a fixed amount
The government was blamed for the situation. Printing more money
There were outbreaks of violence against the government . How could it
survive?

3. Rise to Power
Adolf Hitler

4. NAZI Party is Formed
• Hitler began to think big
for the German Worker’s
Party
• Began placing ads for
meetings in anti-Semitic
newspapers
• Hitler changed the name
to National Socialist
German Worker’s Party
or the NAZIS

5. Party Platform
• Hitler drafted a
platform of 25 points
• Revoke Versailles
Treaty
• Revoke civil rights of
Jews
• Confiscate any
Besides changing the party name, the
war profits flag with the SWASTIKA was adopted
red
as the party symbol

6. Hell went up little by little
1-Economic
conditions
were so bad
that a revolt
would suceed
On November
Hitler and his
troopers
marched into a
meeting in
2- He thought
Munich
the German
army would
support him

7. Beer Hall Putsch
• October 30, 1923
• Hitler held a rally in
Munich beer hall and
declared revolution
• Led 2000 men in take
over of Bavarian
Government
• It failed and Hitler
was imprisoned

8. Trial and Jail
•At his trial (Hitler was charged with
treason), he used the opportunity to
speak about the NAZI platform and
spread his popularity.
•The whole nation suddenly knew
who Adolf Hitler was and what he
stood for
•He was sentenced to five years, but
actually only served about 9 months
•When he left prison, he was ready
to go into action again.

9. Mein Kampf
• Hitler’s book “My Struggle”
- wrote while in jail
• Sold 5 million copies, made
him rich
• Topics included: Jews were
evil, Germans were superior
race, Fuhrer
principal, dislike of
Communism and
Democracy and need to
conquer Russia

10. 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
• Constantly blamed Jews for Germany’s
problems, not the German people.
• Hitler was an excellent public speaker.

11. 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
• Nazi Party:
– 1930 = 18% of vote
– 1932 = 30% of vote
– Hitler becomes
Chancellor in 1933

12. 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
• Wore brownshirts, pants
and boots
• Numbered almost
400,000 by 1932

13. “Night of Broken Glass”
• On November 7, 1938, Herschel
Grynszpan (pictured) a Jewish youth
from Germany, shot a German
diplomat living in Paris to avenge his
father’s deportation to Poland.
• November 9, 1938: In retaliation Nazi
leaders in Germany launched a violent
attack on the Jewish community on
November 9, 1938. This attack was
carried out by the SA (storm troopers)
and SS, who attacked Jewish homes,
businesses, and synagogues. This night
was called Kristallnacht.

14. Dictator
• “Reichstag fire” gives
Hitler total power
• In 1933, all parties
were outlawed except
the Nazi party
• People’s civil rights
were suspended
• “Night of the Long
Knives”

15. Absolute Power
• German economy was
improving, people were
happy
• Hilter had not political
opposition
• 1st concentration camp
opened in 1933
• Began rearming German
Army for expansion of
the Reich

16. Demons ruled in Germany
The SS(Schutzstaffel )escuadrón de defensa was set up a small
private bodyguard force for Hitler. It was enlarged to wipe out the
SA, which it then replaced
• The Death Head Units were the SS groups that ran the concentration camps They
executed a lot of groups of people such as homosexuals, Jews , Gypsies,
Gestapo were the state secret police , formed from SS. They could
spy on and arrest whoever they wanted. They encouraged members
of the Nazi Party to report any ant´- Nazi behavior of friends, people
they worked with
• There were many concentration camps in Germany and on land that Germany had
taken over. The prisioners were used for slave labour and many were worked and
starved to death.

17. Juramento de las SS: "Yo te
juro, Adolf Hitler, Führer y
Canciller del Reich, fidelidad y
valor. Prometo obediencia hasta
la muerte a ti y a los superiores
por ti designados. Que Dios me
ayude".

18. They fathom their thoughts
• Girls and boys were
taught that they had
clear roles in German
society:
• Boys would go on to be
soldiers and fight for
their country.
• It was the girls’ duty to
become mothers and
produce the next
generation of soldiers.

19. Physical fitness was also prized:
• If you were fit you could produce lots of children.
• If you were fit you could become a soldier and fight
for your country.

20. Anti-Semitism
• German children were
taught that the Jews
were responsible for
many of the problems
Germany was facing.
• They were also taught
that the Jews were an
inferior race, (beneath
Aryan Germans).

21. Anti-Semitism, (or anti-Jew)

22. Holocaust
• The end result of this
teaching was “the
holocaust” - the
murdering of over 6
million Jews.