nazi germany

ebert

first president of the weimar republic

stresemann

helped rebuild the german economy

hindenburg

president of germany (1925-1934)

hitler

leader of the nazi party

röhm

head of the SA (brownshirts)

goebbels

nazi minister of propaganda

himmler

leader of the SS

göring

senior nazi official

end of ww1

1918

treaty of versailles

1919

hyperinflation

1923

great depression

1929

night of the long knives

1934

nuremberg laws

1935

kristallnacht

1938

start of ww2

1939

start of the final solution

1941/42

defeat of nazi germany

1945

stab in the back theory

myth that germany’s ww1 defeat was dur to internal betrayals by jews and socialists

munich putsch

hitler’s failed coup attempt to overthrow the weimar government

SA (storm troopers, brownshirts)

paramilitary wing of the nazi party

SS (blackshirts)

elite nazi force led by himmler

reichstag fire

1933 arson attack on the german parliament

enabling act

1933 law that gave hitler dictorial powers

gleichschaltung

process of nazi consolidation of power

holocaust/genocide

systematic murder of jews

aryan

nazi racial term for “pure” germans

freikorps

paramilitary froups formed by german soldiers after ww1

auschwitz

largest nazi concentration camp

lebensraum

nazi policy aimed at acquiring territory for the german people

herrenvolk

nazi concept of a “master race” of aryans

novermber criminals

term used by nationalists towards the germans who signed the treaty of versailles