The Depression and the Nazis

1. Look carefully at Sources 3-7 and 9. For each source, write two sentences explaning whether you think it is evidence that:
Supports the view of Goebbels
Supports the view of Craig
Could be used to support either interpretation
Source 3:
the german people finally recognised that it was hitlers destiny to become germany`s leader. they agreed with goebbels view



Source 4:
the way the strom troopers presented themselves durning the parade in the strrets, the sign of discipline in a time of chaos won people over. this is goebbels veiw


Source 5:
this is against the treaty of versallies the germans found this harsh and unneeded punishment, the poster shows that the germans are sadly locked into the treaty. seems to be goebbels


Source 6:
this is a rally so who ever goes would have to support the nazis and goubbel to be at the rally

Source 7:
what i get from this picture is it is a veiw for craig and is showing how the nazis are so brutal.


Source 9:
this picture shows the nazis election poster but it doesnt show that the people are support goubbel so i would have to say this could go either way.

2. Now work through the text and other sources on pages 191-94. Make a list of examples and evidence that seem to support either viewpoint.

• negatice cohesion is what some people were not taken by
• they only joined over hatred not positive like others
• unable to tackel depression

3. Decide how far you agree with each of the following three statements and give them a score on a scale of 1-5. And then, write a short paragraph explaining your score for each statement.
a. Very few people fully supported the Nazis (Score =3     ) Explanation:
 because they were so negitive and not at all positive not alot of people liked them even though they did have a lot of followers.



b. The Key factor was the economic depression. Without it, the Nazis would have remained a minority fringe party. (Score =  2   ) Explanation: the biggest negitive facotr was a shared dislike od the democracy in weimar germany




c. The politicians of the Weimar Republic were mainly responsible for the rise of the Nazis
(Score =5     ) Explanation:
no one in germany liked the weimar republic, so they were the cause of many things

Nazi Ideology

• the ideas Hitler proposed a society with pure germans citizens that were able to vote, everyonehad freedom of religon athough the party opposes the matericalistic jewish spirit within and beyond us. Hitler wanted take back the territory that the french british and belguims took away from us and even expand beyond that.
• the issues of gravance the party addresses, was that the government would helpand provide for women and childern, they would send the poor families kids to school if they were briliant, the government would pay for the way there.a big one was the party wanted to oblition of the peaces treaties of versilles
• the group of people that would feel threated in different ways by the nazi party, was the rich class because it was filled with jewish bussiness men, that they are "inslaving" the pure germans and giving them little to none of a pay for their works
• the points made in the first and second paragraph, do not show new concepts, values but some new goals for an example that the party wants to make it a pure german race, no jews allowed. the pure germans were going to be the ones running to become powerful and that all germans excluding jews would have equal rights and duties
• the german party was quit effective in attrating support within the local and international community by promising them foods and promising the people all different thingswhile putting the blame on the jews for the loss of the fight, hitler would have never gotten into powerif germany never went into hyperinflation or different crisis moods, everyone was despirt for something, someone with good ideas and bribes and promises of a better time would be qualified
• it inspires support from many of the german citizen it most ly attracted ppor germans, it gave the opportunities for work it caused excitment when what the party said they wuold do started happening when the germans started to throw the jews into the camps

Who Is Hitler?

character

• contemptuous of mankind
• suspicious

propoganda

• hypntoic effect on audience
• supreme master of psychology of mass politics

hitlers basic idea

• germany must expand to take over more territory
• anti marxism hostile to the ideas of karl marx
• replace decomcracy with 1 party state
• anti capitalism power that came from the very rich (jews)
• spoke in favour of socialism

backround

• hitler wanted to be a preist
• used school report as toilet paper
• lives in vienna developing anti sematica anti marxism anti democratic
• joins bavarian regiment only to rise to coporal- considered lack in leadership
• education officer by bavarian political section
• joins DAP
• leader Drexler draws the 25 points up
• becomes fuhrer after he threatens to resign

hitler Mein Kamph

{8}It was absolutely wrong to discuss war-guilt from the standpoint that Germany alone could not be held responsible for the outbreak of the catastrophe; it would have been correct to load every bit of the blame on the shoulders of the enemy, even if this had not really corresponded to the true facts, as it actually did. . . .

1. Hitler agrees with what the people are saying about how its not all germany`s fault for the war, the other countries also contributed for the catastrophic war that went on, but Hitler also believes in fact that it was all the enemies fault that every part of blame should have been put on top of their shoulders not germany`s. that in fact its true that it was not germany`s fault in anyway, germany did nothing wrong.

{16}Now for the first time labor had sunk to the level of an object of speculation for unscrupulous Jewish business men; the alienation of property from the wage-worker was increased ad infinitum. The stock exchange began to triumph and prepared slowly but surely to take the life of the nation into its guardianship and control. . . .

        2. in this Hitler is trying to say that all of germany has fallen under the labors of jewish business men, that they own all of germany, they are under control of the jewish germans that they own the wage workers  

and because of that reason they began to triumph over everyone in the stock exchange and will slowly but surely take over the life of the nation into its guardianship and control

2}But we National Socialists must go further. The right to possess soil can become a duty if without extension of its soil a great nation seems doomed to destruction. And most especially when not some little negro nation or other is involved, but the Germanic mother of life, which has given the present-day world its cultural picture. Germany will either be a world power or there will be no Germany. And for world power she needs that magnitude which will give her the position she needs in the present period, and life to her citizens.

           3. that we must expand germany, that if germany doesnt expand its soil the nation seems to be doomed for destruction. germany is the mother of the life and give cultural pictures to all of its "children" germany will either be the most powerful in the world, or there will be no germany.

{25}No more than Nature desires the mating of weaker with stronger individuals, even less does she desire the blending of a higher with a lower race, since, if she did, her whole work of higher breeding, over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, night be ruined with one blow.

           4.hitlers talking about how nature doesn't desire matings of jew with pure german race, that if germany was okay with the blending of higher and lower race her whole work for thousands of years would be ruined with one blow

{15}A grave economic symptom of decay was the slow disappearance of the right of private property, and the gradual transference of the entire economy to the ownership of stock companies.

            5.germany economy was going down the drain when germans didnt have to pay rent or any type of household necessities, and it became worse when the entire economy  was given to the owners of jewish stock companies

{22}Any crossing of two beings not at exactly the same level produces a medium between the level of the two parents. This means: the offspring will probably stand higher than the racially lower parent, but not as high as the higher one. Consequently, it will later succumb in the struggle against the higher level. Such mating is contrary to the will of Nature for a higher breeding of all life. The precondition for this does not lie in associating superior and inferior, but in the total victory of the former. The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel, but he after all is only a weak and limited man. . . .
                6.that if the cross breeding between a pure german and a jew should happen the child shall be higher up then the jewish father or mother but not as high as the pure german. the pure germans should not blend iwth the weaker jews. they must dominate the race, if you are born a half jew its cruel because hes a weak limited jew.

{29}The lost purity of the blood alone destroys inner happiness forever, plunges man into the abyss for all time, and the consequences can never more be eliminated from body and spirit.                   7.the lost line of the pure blood german in your family line destroys all happiness forever, that the consequences can be elimintated from the body and spirit because they will always carry the blood of a jewish person they will never be able to become a pure german with jewish blood throughout there body

The Munich Putsch and the Nazis 25- point _program

it was ineffective and was poorly planned, hitler and his stormtroopers, declcared a national revolution. he then forces kahr and lossow into a side room to trying and froce them to state their support for a march on berlin to impose their new government, hitler thought that kahr and lossow would automatacly but it took so much longer, the stormtriiosers seize members of the bavarian goverment . they tried to terrorise their opponents but they fall to gain control of the army barracks. lossow and kahr now issue a proclamtion denouncing the putsch.


.what were the main ideas of the NSDAP when Hitler joined it
if your an german citizen, you should have equality of rights for german people. only members of the stae can be german citizens no jews may be a member of the nation only german citizens can vote they will posses equal rights and duties.
if your child is bright and you dont have the fundings for your child to get an education, the state will pay for him to go to school, there is welfare for the poor german citizens. childern were not aloud to do child labor must do gym to get into good shape.

The Birth of the Weimar Republic

1. Why was it called the Weimar Republic and not the Berlin Republic?
its called this because the new government met in the small town of weimar rather than in the german capital, berlin, berlin was thought to be to violent and unstable


2. What new rights did Friedrich Ebert promise the German people?
announced to the germna people that the new republic was giving them freedom of speech, freedom of worship and better working conditions

3. Hey, a democracy. Sounds great! Why was this a shock to the Germany peoples' systems?
they hoped to return to the kaiser, myth developed that men such as Ebert had stabbed germany in rhw back and caused the defeat in the war

4. What positions did the opposition on the right hold that restricted Friedrich Ebert's new government?
nearly all the kaisers former advisers remained in their positions in the arm, judiciary, civil service and industry.they restricted what the government could do.

5. What was the name of "powerful myth" that developed and what "evidence" was there to support the myth?
the name is "stabbed in the back" and the evidence that supports the myth is that they believed that they had been beaten on the battlefield but that it had been betrayed by its civillian politicans who didnt dar continue the war, the treaty was still a source of betterness in germany when hitler came into power


6. Study Source 3: What position was Ebert elected to in Jan. 1919? Who elected him?
he became president of the weinmar republic and Eberts pary won the majority

7. Study Source 3: How would a Chancellor gain power in the Weimar Republic? (Why you need to know this: By 1933 Hitler will have this job.) the chancellor would gain power by the president apointing him into the chacellor spot who is the presidents right hand man