Introduction NAZI GERMANY

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Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

A LEVEL HISTORY

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Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Important terms

Learning Objectives

GleichschaltungGreat Depression Enabling Act Dictatorship Lebensborn Autarky

At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:1- Discuss the events leading to Nazi Germany and Hitler’s consolidation of power; 2- Analyse the effectivity of Hitler’s economic policies; 3- Assess the impact of Nazi policies on women, the young and minorities; and evaluate the German way of life under the Nazis. 4- Provide a definition of totalitarism.

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Introduction

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Introduction

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianianisms, 1919-1939

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

FACTFILE The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was formed in October 1932 by Sir Oswald Mosley, Mosley was a great admirer of Mussolini, whom he visited in January 1932, and he modelled his party along the lines of the Italian Fascist movement. He gained financial backing from industrial tycoons and press magnates, notably from Lord Rothermere, the owner of the Daily Mail. From 1934, he moved closer to nazi ideology and anti-Semitism, leading to violent street confrontations, such as the « Cable Street battle" in 1936. Though the BUF reaped up to 20% of the votes in London's East End in 1937, it never took part in a General Election. Its membership rapidly dwindled after1936. In January 1937, the government passed the Public Order Act, which prohibited the wearing of uniforms for political purposes. The BUF was banned in 1940.

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Communists and fascists united against “bourgeois” (middle class) democracy in the Europe of the 1930s, the hatred of parliamentary democracy was the common point of extremists on both the right and the left. This litany published in the magazine La Conquista del Estado of June 4, 1931, by Ramiro Ledesma is relevant: Long live the new world of the 20th century! Long live Fascist Italy! Long live the Soviet USSR! Long live Hitler's Germany! Long live the Spain that we will do! Down with the parliamentary bourgeois democracies! (quoted by Bartolomé Bennassar, The Spanish War and its aftermath, Perrin, 2004)

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

How Hannah Arendt’s classic work on totalitarianism illuminates today’s America

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Fragility of democracies and rising of totalitarianisms, 1919-1939

Introduction

Through the Nazi Germany, what is totalitarism ?

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

Module Content

A- Rise of the Nazis and establishment of an authoritarian state: impact of the Great Depression and roles of Bruning, Papen, Schleicher and HindenburgB- Gleichschaltung, 1933-34, the Reichstag Fire, Enabling Act, abolition of political parties and trade unions and impact of opposition purges (Night of the Long Knives) C- Hitler's character, ideologies and style of government as Führer D- Features of a Terror State, including machinery of terror, courts, SS, Gestapo E- Economic policies, Schacht’s New Plan, Goering’s Four Year Plan, public works, conscription and autarky, rearmament, reoccupation of Rhineland, the Anschluss F- Key Nazi leaders, Himmler and the suppression of dissent, Goebbels' attempts to shape thoughts and attitudes G- German Labour Front and the ‘Strength through Joy’ H- Policies toward women, young people and minorities I- Significance of Nuremberg Laws

Nazi Germany, 1929-1945

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