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The Nazi Seizure of The Nazi Seizure of PowerPower
1933-39
“Lesson of 2 Novembers”
Emphasize humiliation of VersaillesBeer Hall putsch—failure and lesson “legality strategy”—shift after 1928Electoral tactics—”Hitler over Germany”S.A.—rendering democracy impotentCrisis of 1931-33—Bruning, rule by
decree, and von Papen
Political Consolidation
Reichstag Fire and Enabling ActElection of March 1933Civil service act, loyalty oathBlood Purge—S.A. (Rohm) and armyGleichschaltungTerror—Gestapo, S.S., concentration
campsPropaganda—Nuremberg rallies
Economy and Labor
Reich Labor Front—Robert Ley “pump-priming”—Autobahn,
rearmamentAutarky—synthetic fuels, rubberSupport of industrialistsMembership of Nazi party—young,
(lower) middle-class, teachers, farmers, civil servants
Education,Youth, and SocietyHitler Youth and League of German
Maidens “Strength Through Joy” (Kraft durch
Freude)Study of eugenicsOpposition of churches (Confessional
Lutheran Church and Concordat)Art patronage and “degenerate” artSports and 1936 Olympics
Racial Policy
“racial welfare state”S.S. and “Aryan” raceNuremberg Laws—1935T-4 program and sterilizationKristallnacht—1938Shift after 1938St. Louis—1939
Women and Family
Emphasized traditional female role—women pushed out of industry & workplace
League of German MaidensS.S. officers and “breeding” “race and space” & “feed and breed”Lebensraum
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