HIST 1084 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Volksgemeinschaft, Hyperinflation, Lebensraum
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Module 5
The Flipside of Democracy
The Rise of Nazism (1919-1938)
• Weimar Republic
• Mein Kampf
• Volksgemeinschaft
• Nuremberg Laws
• Kristallnacht
• Horrific period for those on the wrong side of the conflict
Weimar Republic
• 1919-1933
• Versailles humiliated Germans
• Weimar weak, tainted, ineffective
• Hyperinflation, unemployment, dismembered country
• Fear of communism
• Opportunity for Fascists
• Hate foreign enemies
• Treaty of Versailles
The Fascist Rise
• Treaty of Versailles
• ‘Stab in the back’
• Freikorps
• Hyperinflation
• Communist threat
• National socialist German Workers Party
• Angry and motivated group
• Anti-semitic
Adolf Hitler
• Born in Austria in 1889
• Shattered by WWI defeat
• Jews and Communists “stabbed Germany in the back”
• 1920 National Socialist German Workers Party
• Great control
• Template of Mussolini
• 1923: launches unsuccessful “Beer Hall Putsch”
• Arrested
• Tried to overthrow government
• fails
• Imprisoned for 9 months
• Treason
• Writes manifesto
Mein Kampf
• 1925
• “My Struggle”
• Anti-semitic
• Aryans
• Jews: blame
• Lebensraum
• Living space
• Territory lost by Germans
• Aryans deserve territory to match greatness
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