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| What were the conditions that helped to produce this single-party state? |
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Weak Weimar Republic system:
- Proportional Representation: no majority group achieved and no laws passed.
- Article 48: President could create emergency laws without Parliament Consensus--weak decisions were made.
International Factors
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| What regime did it replace? |
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It replaced the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and the new title of Germany was "The Third Reich" |
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| How did the leader emerge? What were his aims, and ideology? |
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Adolf Hitler left the army on April 1st, 1920 in order to become a full-time political agitator.
He gave the DAP (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) a new name: NSDAP
He gave the party a drive
He helped create the 25-point programme
His ideology was a combination of nationalism, socialism, anti-democracy and anti-Semitic. |
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| From where did he get his support? Internal? External? |
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He gained internal support from:
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ex-soldiers and members of the Freikorps- they approved of nationalism and possible job opportunities
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Conservative lower middle-class
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Lower ranking Bavarian servants
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Students fired for political change
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| What were his methods of obtaining power, eg personality, by force, through legitimate channels, peaceful cheating, or combination of these? |
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Definition
- He attempted to gain power by force: Beer Hall Putsch 1923, 9th November 1923
Personality: He wrote Mein Kampf and spoke of:
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| How was propaganda used (if it was)? |
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Definition
Extensively.
- Hitler was depicted as "Germany's last hope" during the Depression
- The Nuremberg Rallies: Hitler was powerful, simple, charismatic
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