CONSEQUENCES OF THE NAZI SEIZURE OF POWER February—May 1933: Creation of a one-party state 1935: Nazis restore universal military conscription; the “Nuremberg Laws” strip German Jews of citizenship 1936: Remilitarization of the Rhineland March 1938: Anschluss with Austria September 1938: At the Munich Conference, Great Britain and France “appease” Hitler with the Sudetenland September 1939: Germany starts the Second World War by attacking Poland
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CONSEQUENCES OF THENAZI SEIZURE OF POWER
February—May 1933: Creation of a one-party state
1935: Nazis restore universal military conscription; the “Nuremberg Laws” strip German Jews of citizenship
1936: Remilitarization of the Rhineland
March 1938: Anschluss with Austria
September 1938: At the Munich Conference, Great Britain and France “appease” Hitler with the Sudetenland
September 1939: Germany starts the Second World War by attacking Poland
June 1941: Germany invades the Soviet Union, and the mass murder of six million Jews begins
The “Cabinet of National Renewal,” appointed onJanuary 30, 1933: Only 3 of 11 ministers were Nazis, but Papen allowed Hitler to control the Prussian police & hold
elections
“The Reich will never be destroyed, if you remain
united and faithful” (February 1933)
“In the hour of greatest need, Hindenburg chose
Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor”
Berliners watch the Reichstag burn, 27 February 1933
(Hitler responded by outlawing the Communist Party)
SA round-up of Communists
Stormtroopers guard the new “concentration camp”at Oranienburg, 1933
A newly deputized SS
trooper patrols the
streets with a Prussian
policeman on election day,
5 March 1933
Torchlight victory parade by the SA and Stahlhelmafter the government parties won 52% of the vote
“Der Tag von Potsdam,”
March 21, 1933:The Corporal
greets the Field Marshall
Hindenburg’s speech to the new Reichstag:
“The place where we are assembled today summons
us to look back on old Prussia, which became great through fear of God, dutiful work, never failing courage,
and devoted love of the fatherland, and which united
the German tribes on this basis. May the old spirit of this place inspire today’s generation, may it free us
from selfishness and partisan quarrels, may it bring us
together in a national revival and spiritual renewal for the sake of a united, free, proud
Germany!”
Hitler demands an Enabling Act, 23 March 1933:All parties but the SPD agreed to give him full
legislativepowers for four years….
The occupation of the Berlin headquarters of the Free Trade Unions, May 2, 1933
Reichstag delegates hail their Leader,January 30, 1934
Likewise German soldiers (when Hindenburg died in 1934, Hitler declared himself President and demanded a loyalty oath
from all soldiers)
The Animals’ Friend (postcard, 1934)
“Youth serves the Führer. All ten-year-olds into the Hitler
Youth”“The NSDAP Protects
the National Community”
Nazi poster from 1934 to explain the need for rearmament
Hitler restored military
conscription in March 1935.
Here new bombers and tanks parade
at the Nuremberg
Party Congress that September
All Jews lost German citizenship under the “Nuremberg Laws” of September 1935
German troops reoccupy the Rhineland in March 1936,
in defiance of the Versailles Treaty
National Income of the Great Powers in 1937 (billions of 1987 dollars) and Percentage Spent
on Defense
National Income
Percentage for Defense
USA 68 1.5%
British Empire 22 5.7%
France 10 9.1%
Germany 17 23.5%
Italy 6 14.5%
USSR 19 26.4%
Japan 4 28.2%
Hitler greeted by cheering throngs as he enters Vienna
on March 14, 1938,and a poster urging voters to
approve the Anschluss
“One People, One Reich, One Leader”
The ethnically German Sudetenland andthe Magyar-speaking portion of Slovakia
The heads of government in Munich, 29 September 1938:Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Hitler, & Mussolini
German troops occupy Prague, 15 March 1939:This event made Chamberlain renounce appeasement, and Great Britain and France “guaranteed” Polish independence
Molotov & Ribbentrop sign the Hitler-Stalin Pact, August 23, 1939
The first Blitzkrieg: The German conquest of Poland