Germany blobs 6-8 facts

Munich putsch

Nov 1923

Military Coup

20 died

Nazi party banned

11 nov 1923

Hitler sentenced

1st April 1924

Nazis won 32 seats in Reichstag due to month long trial

Hitler creates SS

Nov 1925

Rohm was dismissed

Wall Street crash

sept- oct 1929

Poverty after wall street crash

crime rose 25% in Berlin

bruning

the hunger chancellor 1930-32

Deflation

Scared of hyperinflation

Unemployment benefits cut 60%- worsens everything

Article 48 usage

Used 66 times in 1932 as Bruning couldn't get reforms through

Rise of extremism after wall street crash

KPD get 100 seats in 1932

Nazis get 196

how/why do Nazis do well post wall street crash

Make Germany Great Again

SA could deal with communist threat

Nazi propaganda post wall street

Run by Goebbels+ used new tech

Appealed to wide range of groups

Scapegoated Jews and Weimar Republic

hindenburg wins reelection

April 1932

Hitler comes second

Bruning resigns

May 1932

Von Papen in

Von Papen dismissed

Dec 1932

Had tried to control Nazis- biggest party w/ 230 seats

Replaced w/ von Schleicher

Von Schleicher as chancellor

tried to form broad coalition

Hitler becomes chancellor

30 Jan 1933

Von Papen advises this

But only 2/12 cabinet member are Nazis

Reichstag fire

27 Feb 1933

Used as evidence of Communist plot

25,000 communists arrested over next months

Emergency decree

28 Feb

Suspended basic rights

legal basis for Nazi terror over next 12 years

enabling act

23 March 1933

Needed 2/3 of Reichstag- gotten by intimidation

And the deals w/ Catholics

Allowed chancellor to create laws on own

Impact of enabling act

Trade unions banned in May

July all other parties banned

night of the long knives

June 1934

Hitler felt threatened by Rohm- SA

Over 4 days 150 leading SA members killed

Allowed to Consolidate power completely

Hitler becomes Fuhrer

aug 1934

Hindenburg dies