Geschichts-Ex 14.5.14

-control (dictatorship)

-isolation against outsiders

-nations interest sbove individual interest

-strength by unity (one stick easy breaks, but tied together they won't)

-Fascists regimes in 1949s: Italy (Mussolini), Germany (Hilter), Spain (Franco)

the state corntrols all areas of existance:

-politics

-economy

-media

-academic teaching

-education

-free time: compulsory membership in youth organisation

-secret police (NKVD, Gestspo ->Stasi)

-all clubs are streamlined

= a system/remige striving to make everybody the same, the regime imposes ideology on citizens

1889-

-Born in Austria

-got on badly with father, bond with mother

-left school with 16

-went to vienna to become painter

-things went wrong for him 1909-1914 down and out on streets of vienna

-during this period developed hate for foreigners and jews

-1914 war broke out, Hitler joined German army, served with distinction (Won Iron cross)

-found it hard to accept armistice

-unable to accept Treaty of Versailles

-despited Weimar democracy, looked back to gloios days of Kaiser

-Stayed in Amry after war, worked for Intellience services

-came across DAP German workers pary and liked ideas and joined 1919

Twenty five point programme:

-abolition of the treaty of versailles

-union of Germany and Austria

-only true germans allowed to live in G. Jews in particular excluded

-large industries and buainesses to be nationalised

-generous provision for old age pensioners

-a strong central government in Germany

Made german think:

-parlamentary system could not deal with the current (economic) crisis (fell for nazi anti-democratic propaganda

-fear of depression was turned into hate (of system, government and "the Jew")

-(news od terrors of Stalinism (1928-1935) made Germans afraid of Bolshevism)

-relief rganised by the SA helped people in need (after 1933 NS-governemt created jobs for unemployed ("Reichstatsdiesnt")

-depression made US retract their loans to Germany (german economy crashed) and this strengthened anti-Versailles propaganda (which Nazis were experts in)

-that the capitalist system fails and is not worth saving

-middle class has lost savings and  in the depression hope of economic advancement

Hitler appointed chancellor

Reichstagbuilding destroyed by fire

decree of reichpresi for protection of nation and state