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The Interwar Period
Part III
The Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany
• A new government took over when the Kaiser abdicated.
• It was led by Friedrich Ebert.
• G was now a republic.
Nazi Germany
• Joseph Goebbels• Devoted to Hitler• Chancellor of Germany• Minister of Propaganda• Strongly Anti-Semitic• Organized Kristallnacht
• Herman Goering• President of Reichstag• Commander of Luftwaffe• Military background
Himmler
SchutzstaffelSS
• German for "Protective Squadron"
• Elite Nazi military and special police force
• Responsible for many of the crimes against humanity
Röhm
Gestapo! Geheime Staatspolizei: "Secret State Police” • Power to operate without judicial oversight • Power to imprison people without judicial
proceedings– Prisoner had to sign his own Schutzhaftbefehl,
declaring that he had requested imprisonment
• Chancellor: Heinrich Brünning.
• President: Paul von Hindemburg.
I didn’t have the support of the Parliament
so…I had to call for new
elections
I demand to be made
Chancellor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t trust Hitler…I will reappoint
von Papen
Mr. Hitler, do you want to be vice-chancellor?
I’ll rather wait for the next set of elections
We lost 34
seats!!!
I will call von
Schleicher as
Chancellor
Nazis should be weakened
I will choose the nazi Strasser to be vice-
Chancellor instead of Hitler
Don’t accept it, ok?
I won’t, mein
Führer!
What a mess! What should I do…? I rather offer Hitler the post of
Chancellor…
Great idea!
I will call for new elections…perhaps we could win some
more seats
I still have some opposition…I will
declare the Communist party
illegal
I will also sign the Enabling Act, which
will enable me to govern for 4 years
without the Parliament
Röhm is my political opponent. I should
assassinate him and his SA men…
I’m now President+Chancellor
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