HIS 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intelligentsia, Pragmatism, Lebensraum
13 Sep 2016
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Mussolini fed up with socialism started fascism in italy (1922) Afterwards, still employed in german army: intelligence. Founder of the german worker"s party anton drexler: hitler went to meeting to assess whether or not they are a threat to german. State: likes what they are saying, loses position on german army, joins gwp, becomes leader quickly, 1920 renames party national socialist german worker"s party. Fusing nationalism and socialism: make public private enterprise (socialist, german race (nationalist) Try to take power in 1923 (beer hall putsch: coup d" tat take senior bavarian personnel as hostage, coup d" tat fails, hitler put in jail writes mein kampf". 1929 depression begins: nazi part becomes more important politically/socially, july 1932 37% of vote in germany, become germany"s largest political party at the time, take power in 1933. Jan 30 1933 president gives hitler power. Hitler forms government jan 30 1933: supported by industrialists, catholic centre, etc, 27-28 february 1933 fire at parliament (reichstag fire)
