Rise of Hitler - key terms

NSDAP

The Nazi Party

Volk

The notion of ‘pure’ German people

25 Point Programme

The political manifesto of the Nazi Party

Volkischer Beobachter

People's Observer, newspaper owned by the Nazis used to spread their ideology

Führerprinzip

Belief that one person should control a party/country

Swastika

Emblem of the Nazi Party

SA

Private army of the Nazi party

Aryan

‘pure’ German people

anti-Semitism

Hatred of the Jewish people

Mein Kampf

“My Struggle” - Hitler's autobiography

Putsch

An attempt to get power illegally and violently

Bloody Martyrs

The 16 Nazis who died at the Munich Putsch

Gaue

Local party branches

SS or Schutzstaffel

Hitler's bodyguards

KPD

German Communist Party

Propaganda

The Nazis organised a propaganda campaign headed by Goebbels.

Hindenburg

The President of the Republic from 1925 to 1934

Router Frontkampferbund

The Communist's private army