The appeal of extremism

National socialism

fanatical nationalism, authoritarianism, radical view of society

1907-13

Hitler developed his political ideas in Vienna

dictatorship

unlimited powers, a one party state, radical genocide, expansionist foreign policy, chaotic regime

SA

planned violence, controlled streets

1921

Nazi newspaper established, Peoples observer

Beer hall putsch 1923

overestimated support, lacked planning, relied too heavily on Ludendorff, forced Kahr and Lossow to support, no military backing, easily crushed

consequence of beer hall putsch

NSDAP banded, Hitler turned his trial into propaganda, gained right wing respect, lenient sentence where men kampf was wrote

Nazi ideology

racism, anti semitism, anti democracy, weimar a betrayal, aggressive nationalism, wanted to create an empire

Socialist aspect of Nazism

anti capitalist, profit sharing, insurance,nationalisation, believed people work together to benefit nation, accepted loss of individuality

Policy of legality

not universally liked, internal rivalries within the party, struggled with divisions

Bramberg party conference 1926

where Hitler tackled the internal divisions and established supremacy

Gauleiter

lead each region Germany was now divided into to maintain hitlers authority

Der Angriff

Goebbels created a newspaper for propaganda

Nazi organisations

Hitler youth, Order of German women, the SS

May 1928 election

membership increased 4x, could exploit the situation

KPD

largest communist party, never fully exploited the depression, blamed for the reichstag fire and therefore eliminated as an opposition