HST 802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aryan Race, Munich Agreement, Racial Hygiene
8 Mar 2016
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Wwii: week 2: seminar 1 notes: january 19, 2015 daniel. sokolowski@utoronto. ca. Wiemar republic had its own problems, nazis just highlighted them. 4 possible out comes to fall oof republic- communist dictatorship, military dictatorship, restoration of monarchy or nazi dictatorship. German intellects did not seem to support wiemar state. Fear of status degregation , nazis successful volk community slogan. Protest voting- voting not for weimar, anything but Nazi votes came from famers, small townsman, Nazis first middle class party with aspiration. Began political life as a socialist (editor of avanti; leading socialist newspaper) Ousted from socialist for supporting entry into wwi. Gained popularity with middle class and veterans from labour unrest, failed nationalist hopes, and fear of communism. Industrialists and landowners financed mussolini seeing him as opposite of communism. Organized march on rome 1922- king feared civil war and appointed mussolini prime minister of. Italy (in actuality the government and king could have fended off his supporters)
