Germany During the Great Depression

(Nazis, Nazis and more Nazis) By: Jimmi Reaza and Mireya Victorio

The Great Depression in Germany

Unemployment rates grew from 8.5% in 1929 29.9% in 1932 (6 million people out of work)

Blue Collar and White Collared works were affected

NSDAP

One of the first Nazi party programs Program appealed mainly to right

wingers They rejected the conditions of the

Treaty of Versailles Nationalist movements Racist and Anti-Semitic

Sturmabteilung (SA-Stormstoroppers)

Founded by the Nazi Party in 1920 Was formed to protect the initates of

the NSDAP and to constitute street violence

When Nazis came to power the SA gained more privileges to make arrest and to run concentration camps

Storm Troppers cont.

How Hitler rose to power

Born in 1889 in the Austrian town Brunau

Joined the NSDAP in 1919 Was imprisoned for being the leader

of the Munich Putsch 1932 gained German nationality and

the right to become Chancellor

Hitler cont.

The SS (Schutzstaffel)

Founded in 1925 as Hitler's body guards

First under the command of the SA, but Himmler promoted them as an elite group

In charge of Concentration camps and policework.

Heinrich Himmler

Born in 1900 in Munich Took part of the Munich Putsch Joined the NSDAP in 1925 Became head of the SS in 1925

Heinrich Himmler

Women’s role in Germany

Mother and son

The Nuremburg Laws

Stripped Jews of Citizenship & Civil Liberties

Protective of selective breeding (Lebensborn)

Regarded as the “Law of Safeguard of German blood”

Nuremburg Laws cont.

Prohibited Jewish-German marriage Considered a Jew if the person had

three Jewish grandparents If you were married to a Jewish

person your marriage would be annulled

Used the star of David toIdentify Jews

Acts of terror

Hitler’s attempt to illegally rise to power was the Munich Putsch

The Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

Final solution