He promised General Groener of the army that he would leave them alone. He promised the Trade Unions that he would give workers an 8 hour working day. He promised leaders of industry that he wouldn’t confiscate land or factories

The Treaty of Versailles: Land, Army, Money, Blame

Proportional representation

Because Germany could not pay its reparations payments, so France took resources

He set up a new bank – the Reichsbank – which introduced a new currency called the Rentenmark

Education, wages and pensions all improved

Policy, Organisation, Leadership, SA, Hitler’s appeal

The Nazi’s paramilitary force

Hitler was imprisoned, where he wrote Mein Kampf. He later used his trial to get publicity

Hitler now had total control of the party – its nationalist part was strengthened

To attract working class votes the Nazis promised people “Work and Bread” on their posters. However most workers preferred the communists

Heinrich Bruning: 1930- May 1932 Franz Von Papen: May 1932- November 1932 Kurt Von Schleicher: November 1932- January 1933

The Nazis became the largest party but Hindenburg refused to make Hitler chancellor

The Enabling Act changed the constitution and gave Hitler the right to make laws for four years without Reichstag agreement.

The Nazis blamed the communist for the Reichstag Fire. All political parties in Germany were made illegal in July 1933, except for the NSDAP

Any internal opposition to Hitler or supporters of Ernst Rohm.

SD (protection Squad): Wore uniforms and spied on all known opponents and critics of the Nazi party SS (Stormtroopers): Black uniforms. By 1936 the SS controlled all Germany’s police and security forces. Gestapo (Secret State Police): No uniforms. Prosecuted anyone who said or did anything critical of the Nazis

To control law courts he abolished trial by jury. Instead judges decided if people were innocent and guilty and what their punishment should be. There was no right of appeal

In 1933 Hitler signed a “concordat” (agreement) with thePope. He agreed to leave Catholic schools alone as long as Catholic bishops swore loyalty to the Nazis and stayed out of politics.

A group of protestants who opposed joining regional churches into one national German Christian Church controlled by the Nazis

By 1939 membership of the Edelweiss Pirates was about 2,000 and membership of the Hitler Youth was 8 million

This was an award given to women for the number of children they had: bronze for four or five children, silver for six or seven and gold for eight

Hitler youth for Boys and the League for German Maidens for Girls

The Nazis did not include women, Jewish people and men aged 18-25 in their unemployment statistics. They were known as the “invisible unemployed”

Public work schemes, the National Labour Service, the Four Year Plan all gave people jobs

They believed in “eugenics” and encouraged reproduction of the “best” Germans and sterilised Germans who were considered unsuitable. They believed the ideal human was Aryan: blonde haired and blue eyed

In 1935 the Nuremburg Laws banned the marriages of Jewish and non-Jewish people and took their German citizenship. In 1938 Kristallnacht was a major state-sponsored pogrom against the Jewish population

The Dawes Plan temporarily resolved the issue of the reparations that Germany owed to the Allies of World War I