Post on 16-Apr-2017
BIRTH OF THE WEIMER REPUBLIC
> GERMANY WAS THE POWERFUL EMPIRE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
THEY HAD A WAR WITH COUNTRIES SUCH AS ENGLAND ,RUSSIA,&FRANCE.
The effects of the world war!
THE 1ST WORLD WAR HAD BOTH EFFECTED FINANCIALLY AND
PHYSICALLY.
THE FIRST WORLD LEFT A DEEP IMPRINT ON EUROPEAN SOCIETY
&POLITICS
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The war had a devastating impact on the entire continent both psychologically and financially.
Unfortunately, the infant Weimar Republic was being made to pay for the sins of the old empire. The republic carried the burden of war guilt and national humiliation and was financially crippled by being forced to pay compensation.
Those who supported the Weimar Republic, mainly Socialists, Catholics and Democrats, became easy targets of attack in the conservative nationalist circles.
POLITICAL RADIALISM AND ECONIMICS CRISES
THE WEIMER BIRTH LEAD TO UPRISING OF SPARTACIST .
SOVIETS &SAILORS WERE ESTABLISHED
POLITICAL RADICALISATION WAS HEIGHTENED BY THE ECONOMIC CRISIS 1923.
THEY HAD WAR DUE TO THE PAYMENT OF GOLD
GERMANY REFUSED TO PAY THE AMOUNT
IN APR: THE US $ MARKS 24,000 IN JUL: IT MARKS
353,000 IN AUG: 4,621,000 IN DEC: 98,860,000.
THIS COLLAPSED THE PRICES OF GOOD SORED.
THE REVENGE ON HELMUTH’S FAMILY
Helmut was a German boy his father was Prominent physician, deliberated with his wife Whether the time had come to kill the entire
Family or if he should commit suicide alone . He said to his wife about his fear of revenge, saying,’ now the Allies will do to us what we did to the crippled and Jews.’
The whole family committed suicide . Helmut's father was a Nazi and a supporter of Adolf Hitler.
This crisis in the economy, polity and society formed the background to Hitler’s rise to power.
When the First World War broke out, he enrolled for the army, acted as a messenger in the front, became a corporal, and earned medals for bravery.
The German defeat horrified him and the Versailles Treaty made him furious. In 1919, he joined a small group called the German Workers’ Party. He subsequently took over the organisation and renamed it the National Socialist German Workers’ party.
In 1923, Hitler planned to seize control of Bavaria, march to Berlin and capture power. He failed, was arrested, tried for treason, and later released.
The Nazis could not effectively mobilise popular support till the early 1930s. It was during the Great Depression that Nazism became a mass movement. As we have seen, after 1929, banks collapsed and businesses shut down, workers lost their jobs and the middle classes were threatened with destitution. In such a situation Nazi propaganda stirred hopes of a better future. In 1928, the Nazi Party got no more than 2. 6 per cent votes in the Reichstag ñ the German parliament. By 1932, it had become the largest party with 37 per cent votes
Hitler was a powerful speaker. His passion and his words
moved people He promised employment for those looking for work, and a secure future for the youth. He promised to weed out all foreign influences and resist all foreign ‘conspiracies’ against Germany.
YOUTH IN NAZI GERMANY
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Germany was in one of its strongest stances for nearly 20 years. It was this that Hitler wanted to capitaliseon for the future of Nazi Germany and by doing this theyneed to take advantage of the young people as they are thenext generation of Nazis. Using the ideas of Social Darwinism they Nazis decided that only the most strongest and ruthless should survive.This was to be the Aryan race. How was Hitler supposed to tackle such a massive task? Would it work? And what effects would it have? The Nazis would have to brainwash the German youth in every possible way. So they did, they took over the lives of the German children, and run them for them. If Hitler wanted his anticipated 1000-year regime to succeed the future generations were the children. To get people on your side you need to get them on your side when they are young, Younger people are far easier to influence than when they are adults. This is
because the younger you are the more you believe other people as they are more dependant on them, and the younger generations look up to the older generations who lead by example to make the younger people the perfect Nazis.
NAZI IDEOLOGY1920 to 1923, Hitler formulated his ideology, then published
it in 1925–26, as Mein Kampf, a two-volume, biography and political manifesto.
Though Hitler for "tactical" reasons had rhetorically declared a 1920 party platform with platitudes "unshakable," actually "many paragraphs of the party program were obviously merely a demagogic appeal to the mood of the lower classes at a time when they were in bad straits and were sympathetic to radical and even socialist slogans...
THE ART OF PROPAGANDA ………..
The Nazi regime used language and media with care and often to great effect for Propaganda, they coined different words for their official communications such as – Mass Killing were termed “Special Treatment"," Final solution” for the Jews, “euthanasis” “ selection” and “disinfection” for the disabled.
“Evacuation” meant deporting people to gas chambers and gas chambers were termed as “disinfection area” and looked like bathroom equipped with fake showerheads.
Nazi idea were spread through visual images, films, radio, posters, catchy slogan and Leaflets, propaganda films were made to crea
Death of Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.] His wife committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.