4.3 The path to power (part 2)

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4.3 part 2 and 4.4 part 1

At the end of this lesson...

• You will be able to give some examples of Nazification.

Which statements about the NSDAP are correct?

Correct answers

They are an authoritarian party

They are a democratic party

They are a nationalistic party

They do not want to get rid of the Treaty of Versailles

New subject matter

Take notes!

Rise to power

• 30th of January, 1933:  Hitler becomes chancellor  of Germany.
• 17th of January, 1933: Reichstagfire.
• 23th of March 1933: enabling act. Hitler is able to accept laws without the approval of parliament. 

Nazification

• Hitler wants to make Germany powerful and calls it the ''Third Reich''.
• He turns Germany into a totalitarian state.
• Gleichschaltung: The laws on how Germans had to live made by the Nazis.

Everything the people of a country think and do is controlled by the state.

Concentration camp

• Political parties are banned and  political opponents are arrested. 
• The concentration camp Dachau is built to hold these opponents.
• Dachau was the first of many.

Ministry of propaganda

• The media is controlled and censored by Joseph Goebbels.   
• Artists, Musicians, writers and actors have to become members of the Reich Chamber of Culture (controlled by Goebbels).
• ''Entartete Kunst'' 

Hitler Jugend

Bund Deutscher Mädel

Night of the Long Knives

• The SA expect to be rewarded but the opposite is true.
•  During ''The Night of the Long Knives'' the leader of the SA (Ernst Röhm) and others are murdered by the SS. 
• After Hindenburg passes away two month later, Hitler declares himself Führer. 

Schutzstaffel

Put these events in the right order

1

2

3

Reichstagfire

Enabling Act

Hitler becomes Chancellor

Give at least two examples of Nazification.

Homework

Paragraph 4.4 exercise 1 and 2

Paragraph 4.3 exercise 8, 9 and 10