Nazi Germany

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

What will we be studying for Nazi Germany?

1. The Nazi Party’s Rise to Power

• The Nazi Party during the 1920s

  • Hitler’s role in the early Nazi Party 

  • The Nazi’s political idea: 25 Point Party programme

  • The Munich Putsch: its failures and successes 

  • The reasons why the Nazis had little success in the 1920s 

• Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor in 1933

  • The Wall Street Crash and the effects of the Great Depression on Germany 

  • Nazi elections promises and campaign methods between 1930-1933 

  • The reasons why Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor in January 1933 

• Hitler’s consolidation of power 1933-1934

  • The Reichstag Fire and Emergency Powers 

  • The March Elections of 1933 and the Enabling Act 

  • The Gleichschaltung Laws 

  • The Night of the Long Knives and the Oath of Loyalty 

  • The death of Hindenburg 

2. Nazi control over Germany

• Methods of control

  • The use of terror through the SS, Gestapo and law courts 

  • The use of propaganda 

  • Control over the Christian Churches 

• Persecution of minorities and opposition groups

  • Aktion T4 

  • Reasons for the persecution of minorities 

  • Increasing persecution of Jews in the 1930s 

  • Opposition to the Nazis 

  • Why was there not more opposition? 

3. Life in Nazi Germany

• Policies towards women, families and young people

  • Nazi views of women, their aims and their policies towards them 

  • Nazi views of young people, their aims and their policies towards them 

  • Youth opposition groups 

• Nazi economic policy

• The impact of the Second World War on Germany

  • Early Nazi successes through Blitzkrieg 

  • Rationing, allied bombing and the war economy 

  • Increased opposition 

  • The Holocaust and the Final Solution 

4. Was Nazi Germany a totalitarian state?