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January 1933
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>VS resigns >Von Papen & Hindenburg make deal with Hitler - made Chancellor on Jan 30th, VP = vice >Hitler leader of Reichstag but not as strong as wanted as Von Papen vice & only 3 other Nazis in cabinet |
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1932
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>July elections - Nazis = 37% vote but Hindenburg refuses to make Hitler chancellor >Nov elections - Nazi votes go down (33%) but remain biggest party (230 seats) in Reichstag so H should be chancellor but Hindenburg refuses >Hitler makes secret deal with Von Papen >Nov - Von Papen lose Chancellorship >Dec - Von Schleicher = chancellor >VP replaces VS as chancellor >3rd chancellor in 1 year - WEAK GOVT ~ unable to control Germany & SA violence increases >Economy in crisis - pushes people to support Nazi ~ Unemployment = 6 million |
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1930
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>Bruning = chancellor >Govt in chaos - WEAK >Poverty - SA set up soup kitchens. Nazi propaganda - Nov Criminals, Dolchstoss - H = last hope ~ propaganda promises e.g. strong govt >Govt decreases unemployment benefit & raises taxes to save money (avoid inflation) >Reichstag parties unable to agree so President rules by decree >Election - 107 seats (Nazis) |
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1929
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>Wall Street Crash - depression, unemployment = 6 million >The Great Depression >Desperate time, people turn to extreme parties ~ Nazi propaganda exploits communist fear >Propaganda denounces ToV & promises to end reparations & military restrictions - attracts nationalists & industrialists ~ Hugenberg gives Hitler publicity in paper & helps with speeches >Young Plan - agreement (reparations payment) |
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1928
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>Nazis remain minor party ~ receive only 3% vote
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1926
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>Hitler has own elite guard - SS >Stresemann secured German membership of LoN |
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1924 - 1929
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>Nazis gain little support at this time as people happy, but recovery fragile and depends on USA >Stresemann Era - recovery and stability based largely on US loans (Dawes & Young Plans) ~ prosperous and settled govt |
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1923
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>Aug - Stresemann = chancellor >Weimar Republic on verge of collapse >Weimar govt = UNPOPULAR (year of crisis) - Nazi membership increases (still not mainstream party) >Nov - Munich Putsch/Beer Hall Putsch (Nazis try & fail to seize power) & Stresemann calls off passive resistance in Ruhr >Hitler to prison, rethinks tactics. Judge with nationalist sympathies - lenient sentence (9 months of 3 years) ~ publicity but 'thug' reputation >Occupation of the Ruhr (Fr & Be) >Hyperinflation ~ Rentenmark introduced |
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1922
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>Nazis have own army (SA) - used to intimidate and hold street parades/demonstrations |
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1921
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>Nazi Party organised - strong figurehead (Hitler = leader) but seen as not respectable by many |
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1920
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>Nazis appeal for several sections of society e.g. older, farmers, nationalists but NOT mainstream party >Nazi Party's 25 point Programme - nationalists, socialist, fascist and racist >March - Kapp Putsch & Hitler became party leader and renamed the party "The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) >SA set up |
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1919
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>Jan - Spartacist Uprising >Nov - Hitler joins the German Worker's Party |
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1924
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>Feb - Hitler's trial >Mein Kampf written >Change in Nazi policy >First election 52 seats won (Nazis) >April - Dawes Plan |
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1925
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>Von Hindenburg elected as president >Locarno treaties |
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1933
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>Feb - Reichstag Fire & Enabling Act >March - Dachau concentration camp opened >April - country split into 42 regions led by Gauleiter, separated in to areas, localities and blocks of flats run by Blockleiters & Hitler sets up the Gestapo >May - Trade Unions banned >June - Concordat (Hitler & church agreement) >July - Political parties banned |
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1934
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>April - People's Courts >June - Night of the Long Knives >August - President von Hindenburg dies & Hitler become Fuhrer |
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1935
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>May - Jews forbidden to join the army >Sept - The Nuremberg Laws |
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1936
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>Berlin Olympics ~ halt on anti-Semitic propaganda
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1938
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>April - Jews had to register properties - made it easier for Nazis to take >June - Jewish doctors/dentists/lawyers unable to treat Aryan patients >Oct - Jew passports require a red 'J' stamp >Nov - Kristallnacht~ Jews who rented properties from Germans which were damaged were fined 1 billion Reichmarks >November - Jewish children only allowed in Jewish schools >December - Jewish businesses completely confiscated |
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1939
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>Jan -New names for Jews - Sarah Israel& Reich office for Jewish Emigration established to promote emigration to Jews >Sept -WWII |
