HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Kapp Putsch, Adolf Hitler, German People'S Party

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 106
• Professor: Paul Garfinkel

Document Summary

This lecture focuses on the basis of nazism as an ideology, which included racist war. Racist war = condition + consequence of nazism. The freikorps: aimed to demobilize soldiers brutalized by war, who were ill equipped to civilian life. They were not strong enough to topple the weimar. Putsch (1920), which failed to topple the government. This created an opening though for other groups such as the dvp: april 1920 the dvp becomes the nsdap, or the nazi party. His greatest power was his oratory skill and ability to bring in other people from the right wing parties. He also creates the sa, or the brownshirts to act like the fascist blackshirts. Their job was to fight socialists in the streets. (copied from mussolini) Why was the nazi party different: they were able to recruit from a very broad social cross section the party cut across class lines, they were the first to employ mass mobilization (borrowed from mussolini)