History 1401E Lecture 4: Hitler and Nazism

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1401E
• Professor: Eli Nathans

Document Summary

Reasons for the growth of the nazi party. Many germans wrongly blamed the republican government formed in november. 1918 for the loss of the war (the stab in the back lie) and the harsh terms of the. Versailles treaty, and hitler attacked it mercilessly on these and other grounds; Many germans also blamed the republican government for permitting domestic violence, for causing the in ation, and for being too weak to defend germany against. The fact that the republic was supported politically by parties that had generally been excluded from power before. 1914, the socialists and the catholic centre party, was another reason for conservative germans" alienation; From 1929, the great depression, which by 1932 had led to an unemployment rate of roughly 30% , and which the republican government did not ght effectively by, for example, developing public works programs.