hitler and the rise of nazism
- Unemployment was high
- Workers were angry
- Hitler, provided jobs for economic recovery via make work projects
- Fascists built armies
- Hitlers henchmen were the Brownshirts (S.A.)
- Used through the 20s and 30s to harass opposition parties mercilessly
- Led by Ernst Rohm
- The burning of the Reichstag in February 1933
- Dutch communist was convicted
- Hitler and Brownshirts force the enabling act through the Reichstag
- Only 93 voted against it
- Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting Reichstag
- Despite the lack of freedom of speech and press, Hitler won 288 seats which was a bare majority
The night of the long knives
- 30 June 1934 those killed were:
- and internal challengers
- Ernst Rohm
- All socialists, whom he'd adopted for electoral reasons
- He declared the Shutzstaffel (S.S.) had conducted the
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"This is a God-given signal! If this fire, as I believe, turns out to be the handiwork of Communists, then there is nothing that shall stop us now crushing out this murder pest with an iron fist." -Hitler
Could anyone have stood in Hitler's way and kept him from taking so much so quickly? If another nation had intervened, how much damage globally have been prevented? |