Nazi Rearmament

By: Milagros Montanelli, Flor Claps, Martina Ibarbia, Gonzalo Criniti and

Vignesh Manwani

Topics to be discussed➔ Terms of the treaty of versailles.

➔ Hitler came to power and started rearming in 1933.

➔ People supported rearmament to get rid of unemployment.

➔ Hitler left the League after withdrawing from the disarmament conference.

➔ Non-aggression pact with Poland in 1934.➔ Hitler held a rally celebrating German armed

forces. 1935➔ Britain signed a naval agreement with

Germany 1935. ➔ Hitler reopened conscription 1936.

Terms of the treaty of versailles➔ germany’s armed forces:

◆ limited the army to 100,000

◆ conscription was banned

◆ germany was not allowed armoured vehicles, submarines or aircraft

◆ the navy could only have six battleships.

➔ Germany´s reaction

➔ Wilson 14 points

Hitler came to power and started rearming in 1933.➔ Most important objective: rearm Germany.

In order to do so he had to violate the treaty of Versailles.

➔ After getting the chancellor post: stopped paying reparations. withdraw from the league. No more militar y disarmament discussions

➔ Gr was soon engaged in a programar of industrial military output

➔ The plan was that by the end of 1937 Germany would have an army of 300,000 men, organized into 21 divisions which could break into 63 divisions during wartime. This was the defensive.

➔ Offensive capability would be added between 1938-41.

What Hitler did What he broke What could have happened

Introduced conscription

Treaty of Versailles

France could have invaded, this could’ve paralyzed Germany's industry in the Ruhr,which was part of the Rhineland, which was a demilitarized zone.

Remilitarized the Rhineland

Treaty of Versailles

Germany could have Lost her industrial capacity in the Ruhr

People supported rearmament to get rid of unemployment unemployment was a huge problem in Germany. at least 6 million germans were unemployed. during his election hitler promised the people “work and bread”, and his intentions from the beginning had been to reduce unemployment, create jobs through conscription and finally achieve a germany that was economically “autarky”. Rearmament created new jobs:➔ manufacturing arms➔ supplying raw material➔ manufacturing military equipment (tanks,

submarines, etc)

Reaction of the population:

➔ The majority of the people were glad to have secure jobs

➔ industrial workers had regular work, but they had lost their rights

➔ large businesses were prospering, but small businesses and the middle classes were squeezed out of the market.

➔ as regards farmers: they were provided with aid from the government, they were told what to grow and how much to grow and dictated their prices.

➔ The country grew as the country prepared for war and rearmament.

conclusion of the changes in unemployment➔ By 1939 there were fewer than 350,000

people unemployed.

➔ The people who were unemployed were persecuted by the SS because of being “lazy”.

➔ In order to achieve german’s self-sufficiency, Germany searched for artificial ingredients to replace things like oil, rubber, textiles and coffee. This didn’t work. Agriculture suffered due to a shortage of workers and machinery.

➔ Germany continued to import a lot of goods (such as: butter oil and vegetables). in 1939, it was importing 33 per cent of its raw materials.

➔ There was a shortage of food in Germany.

Withdrawal from the conference and the league in 1933.Equality of armaments IN October, Hitler withdrew from the conference and

the league. The British tried to get Germany to return to the

conference. in April 1934 France withdrew from the conference.

➔ it wrecked the conference➔ it left him free to rearm however he wanted

➔ it drove a wedge between the French and the British

➔ British had agreed that the arms clauses of the Treaty were too harsh.

Non-aggression Pact with Poland, 1934

No war for 10 years.Poland and France invade GermanyHitler liked these ‘bilateral’ treaties between himself

and another power.

➔ eastern border safe and gave him time to rearm➔ undermined the principle of collective security of

the League ➔ divided the countries allied against him➔ when he was ready, he simply invaded Poland

anyway.

Hitler held a rally celebrating Germany's armed forces In 1935 Hitler formed a huge massive military rally to celebrate Germany's armed forces. People thought they belonged to something important.

The rally Hitler held in 1935 was the number seven. It was called the “rally of freedom”

➔ 1936, he introduced the conscription to the

army. Hitler outlout a speech saying that he would break the terms of The Treaty of Versailles.

➔ Many other countries used rearmament to face and fight unemployment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnHeX4OHIqo

British-German naval agreement ➔ 1935: Britain sympathised with Germany

◆ Treaty of Versailles

◆ Communism➔ Naval agreement: increase navy

◆ reaction of the French

Conscription:

➔ Conscription forbidden.➔ Rearmament secretly.➔ Reintroduced conscription.➔ Soldiers grew in amount.➔ Right move.➔ It made him very popular in

Germany.

Summaryhttps://youtu.be/sGZueuWeUdc

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