NAZISM AND THE

RISE OF HITLER
PRESENTED
BY:
DEV MALIK

ADOLF HITLER
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was
the founder and leader of
the Nazi Party and the most
influential voice in the
organization, implementation
and execution of the
Holocaust, the systematic
extermination and ethnic
cleansing of six million
European Jews and millions of
other non-aryans.
Hitler was the Head of State,
Supreme Commander of the
Armed Forces and guiding
spirit, or fuhrer, of Germany's
Third Reich from 1933 to 1945

EARLY YEARS
Born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on
April 20, 1889.
Hitler was the son of a fifty-two-
year-old Austrian customs
official, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler,
and his third wife, a young peasant
girl, Klara Poelzl, both from the
backwoods of lower Austria. The
young Hitler was a resentful,
discontented child. Moody, lazy, of
unstable temperament, he was
deeply hostile towards his strict,
authoritarian father and strongly
attached to his indulgent, hard-
working mother, whose death from
cancer in December 1908 was a
shattering blow to the adolescent
Hitler.
After spending four years in the Realschule in Linz, he left school at
the age of sixteen with dreams of becoming a painter. In October
1907, the provincial, middle-class boy left home for Vienna, where
he was to remain until 1913 leading a bohemian, vagabond
existence. Embittered at his rejection by the Viennese Academy of
Fine Arts, he was to spend "five years of misery and woe" in Vienna
as he later recalled, adopting a view of life which changed very little
in the ensuing years, shaped as it was by a pathological hatred of
Jews and Marxists, liberalism and the cosmopolitan Habsburg
monarchy.
Existing from hand to mouth on occasional odd jobs and the
hawking of sketches in low taverns, the young Hitler compensated
for the frustrations of a lonely bachelor's life in miserable male
hostels by political harangues in cheap cafes to anyone who would
listen and indulging in grandiose dreams of a Greater Germany
WHAT IS NAZISM?
Nazism, commonly known as National Socialism
(German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the
ideology and practices of the Nazi Party under Adolf
Hitler; and the policies adopted by the government of
Nazi Germany\
The Nazis were one of several historical groups that
used the term National Socialism to describe
themselves, and in the 1920s they became the largest
such group. Nazism is generally considered by scholars
to be a form of fascism, and while it incorporated
elements from both political wings, it formed most of
its temporary alliances on the political right
. Among the key elements of Nazism were anti-
parliamentarism, ethnic nationalism, racism,
collectivism, eugenics, antisemitism, opposition
to economic liberalism and political liberalism,
anti-communism, and totalitarianism.
Nazism was not a monolithic movement, but
rather a (mainly German) combination of various
ideologies and groups, sparked by anger at the
Treaty of Versailles and what was considered to
have been a Jewish/Communist conspiracy

GERMAN OCCUPIED EUROPE
RISE TO POWER (1928-1933)
In 1928 Hitlers Nazi Party were a small, insignificant party.
They enjoyed little success in elections and were viewed as
little more than thugs by the political elite. By 1933
however Hitler was the chancellor of Germany. The Nazis
had risen from obscurity to power, total power.

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE RISE
Stresemanns death
The Wall Street Crash
Economic instability
Failure of the Weimar Government to cope with
problems
Weakness of the constitution
Force used against opponents
Wide ranging populist policies
Visible strength at a time of weakness

RISE TO POWER
Wall Street Crash
End of US Aid
Economic Collapse
Rising Unemployment
High inflation
Pressure on government
Disillusionment with
government
Interest in extreme ideas
Opportunity for Nazis
Apparent weakness of Weimar
Show of strength by Hitler
Rise in votes for Nazis

Factors
Inability of Weimar to
cope with economic
crisis
Hitlers manipulation of
situation
Public desire for order
and strength
Politicians naivety in
dealing with Hitler
Fear of communism
Lead to
Rise of National
Socialism
Instability of Weimar
government

But the Nazis never had a majority!
The Nazi Party never had an absolute majority
in the Weimar government
They did become the largest single party
though
Proportional representation allows non
majority parliaments in the form of coalitions

How were the Nazis able to
achieve this so quickly?
1. The economic situation
was very bad
2. Hitler was a great
public speaker
3. The SA and SS
disrupted he work of
political opponents
4. The Nazis were funded
by industrialists such
as Alfred Hugenberg
5. The other political
parties wouldnt work
together


6. Chancellors in the
period 1928-33 werent
widely supported
within the Reichstag
7. Goebbels propaganda
was effective
8. People were fed up of
ineffective coalition
governments and the
current situation
9. The Nazis targeted
certain groups of the
electorate
10. People didnt want a
return to the
hyperinflation of 1923-
24

How did Hitler consolidate
power?
The Reichstag Fire
Creates a climate that Hitler
can manipulate for his on
ends
The Enabling Act
Hitler uses Article 48 to create
a State of Emergency. The act
effectively ends democracy in
Germany.
The Night of the Long Knives
Opposition from within the
party is removed: violently.
The SA is purged.

Hitler used his position, and
the frailties and subsequent
death of Hindendburg, to
engineer a Nazi take over of
government. He makes use of
Article 48 to legitimise the
end of democracy before
radically altering the structure
of government. Soon
opposition is banned and
Germany has a one party
state. Pressure groups, such
as Trade unions, are also
banned. This Nazi Revolution
is secured as a result of the
removal of all possible threats
to nazi rule: the SA, the army
and political parties are all
dealt with by the end of
1934.

Lebensraum
Lebensraum (German for "habitat" or literally "living space")
was one of the major political ideas of Adolf Hitler, and an
important component of Nazi ideology. It served as the
motivation for the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany,
aiming to provide extra space for the growth of the German
population, for a Greater Germany. In Hitler's book Mein
Kampf, he detailed his belief that the German people needed
Lebensraum ("living space", i.e. land and raw materials), and
that it should be found in the East. It was the stated policy of
the Nazis to kill, deport, or enslave the Polish, Russian and
other Slavic populations, whom they considered inferior, and
to repopulate the land with Germanic peoples. The entire
urban population was to be exterminated by starvation, thus
creating an agricultural surplus to feed Germany and allowing
their replacement by a German upper class.
The Nazis And The Jews
The nazis hated the jews
because of the following
main reasons.They were-
Christ Killlers
Defeat of Germany in
World War II
Inferior race
Great depression of 1929

hated
The Nazi Symbol
The Jewish
Symbol
1.Christ Killers
Right from the so-called crucifixion
of Jesus .Jews were blamed by the
Gospel for this incident. According
to analysts, right after this incident
throughout, Europe prosecution of
Jews started, Extreme instances of
Jewish persecution include the
First Crusade of 1096, the
expulsion from England in 1290,
the Spanish Inquisition, the
expulsion from Spain in 1492, the
expulsion from Portugal in 1497
and Holocaust was the climax of
this centuries old hatred, which
was created by Christian church.
2.Defeat of Germany in World War II
After the signing of Treaty of
Versailles at the end of WW1, state
of war between Germany and its
allied forces was formally ended, as
far as Germans are concerned,
they totally rejected this treaty as
it was considered bad for the
Germany.
After the World War 1, majority of
Germans were of the view that,
they came close to winning the war
with the Spring Offensive earlier in
1918, but they failed because of
strikes in the arms industry at a
critical moment of the offensive,
leaving soldiers with an inadequate
supply of materiel and this strike
was blamed on the Jews.
3.Inferior race
According to historians, it is
widely believed that Hitler
deemed Germans as to be a
superior race as compared to
other races i.e.
Aryans,Jews,Gypsies etc and
he thought that this was one
of important reasons of
Holocaust and prosecution of
other races.
4.Great depression of 1929
Great Depression of 1929, started
just after the stock market crash on
October 29, 1929 on black Tuesday,
Germany was worst hit by this
economic downturn, almost every
city was affected and 6 million
people got unemployed.
During and after the slump, Jews
were doing great financially, that
made the role of Jews suspicious in
the eyes of Germans and negative
propaganda by Hitler provided the
impetus to this notion and they
started thinking that, Jews are
responsible for this Downturn and
they are getting full benefit from
the recession.
Concentration Camps
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (in German Konzentrationslager, or
KZ) throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps set up
in Germany were greatly expanded after the Reichstag fire of 1933, and were
intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime. The term was
borrowed from the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War.
The number of camps quadrupled between 1939 and 1942 to 300+, as slave-
laborers from across Europe, Jews, political prisoners, criminals,gypsies, the
mentally ill and others were incarcerated, generally without judicial process.
Holocaust scholars draw a distinction between concentration camps and
extermination camps, which were established by the Nazis for the industrial-
scale mass murder of the predominantly Jewish ghetto and concentration
camp populations
.

World War II
World War II, or the Second World
War, was a global conflict that was
underway by 1939 and ended in 1945.
It involved most of the world's
nationsincluding all of the great
powerseventually forming two
opposing military alliances: the Allies
and the Axis. It was the most
widespread war in history, with more
than 100 million military personnel
mobilised. In a state of "total war", the
major participants placed their entire
economic, industrial, and scientific
capabilities at the service of the war
effort, erasing the distinction between
civilian and military resources. Marked
by significant events involving the mass
death of civilians, including the
Holocaust and the only use of nuclear
weapons in warfare, it is the deadliest
conflict in human history, resulting in
50 million to over 70 million fatalities.
Reasons
The rearmament of Germany was a
cause for war because it broke the
Treaty of Versailles (28th June, 1919)
The remilitarization of the Rhineland
(7th march, 1936) was a cause of war
because it broke the Treaty of
Versailles .
Chamberlains appeasement policy
(after may 1937 March 1939) was a
cause of war because it broke the
Treaty of VersaillesThe Anschluss of
Germany with Austria (13th march,
1938) was a cause of war because it
broke the Treaty of Versailles and
Treaty of St. Germain (10th September,
1919)
The Nazi annexation of the
Sudetenland after the Munich
conference (29th September 1938) was
a cause of war, because it broke the
Treaty of St. Germain.
The Nazi occupation of
Czechoslovakia in March 1939, cause
war because it defied the Munich
agreement and ended Britains
appeasement policy.
The Nazi invasion of Poland (1st
September 1939) caused war because
Britain had guaranteed Polands
borders

The Axis Powers
Death of Hitler
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on
Monday, 30 April 1945 in his Fhrerbunker in Berlin.
His wife Eva, committed suicide with him by ingesting
cyanide.That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's
prior instructions, their remains were carried up the
stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused
in petrol and set alight in the Reich Chancellery
garden outside the bunker. The Soviet archives
record that their burnt remains were recovered and
interred in successive locations until 1970 when they
were again exhumed, cremated and the ashes
scattered.
Front page of the U.S. Armed Forces
newspaper, Stars and Stripes, 2 May
1945.