

This site discusses many of the ideas contained within Mein Kampf.Īfter Hitler was released from prison, he formally resurrected the Nazi Party. Linked with Socialĭarwinism, the human struggle that said that might makes right, Hitler'sīook became the ideological base for the Nazi Party's racist beliefs and German nationalism, antisemitism, and anti-Bolshevism. This work detailed Hitler's radical ideas of While in prison, Hitler wrote volume one of Mein Kampf (My Struggle) This site details Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch. Nazi leaders were given light sentences also. Hitler was released from prison after one year. With Hitler and sentenced him to only five years in prison, with eligibilityįor early parole. The right-wing presiding judges sympathized
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By the end of the 24-day trial Hitler had actually However, Hitler used the courtroomĪt his public trial as a propaganda platform, ranting for hours against Seemed doomed to fail and its leaders, including Hitler, were subsequently Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, failed miserably. A year later Hitler became its official leader, or Führer.Īdolf Hitler's attempt at an armed overthrow of local authorities in By the end of 1920, the Nazi Party had aboutģ,000 members. German Workers' Party, called for short, the Nazi Party (or NSDAP).

He changed the name of the party to the National Socialist The Jews, exploiting antisemitic feelings that had prevailed in Europeįor centuries. Pride, militarism, and a commitment to the Volk and a racially "pure" Germany. Through his emotional and captivating speeches. Right-wing ideology, like many similar groups of demobilized soldiers.Īdolf Hitler joined this small political party in 1919 and rose to leadership The German Workers' Party, the forerunner of the Nazi Party, espoused a This site contains the complete Treaty of Versailles as well as maps and related material. In the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was disarmed and forced to pay reparations to France and Britain for the huge costs of the war. The German population swallowed the bitter pill of defeat as the victorious Allies punished Germany severely. This site explores the consequences of Germany's defeat in WWI. The new regime could neither handle the depressed economy nor the rampant lawlessness and disorder. , tried to establish a democratic course, extreme political parties from both the right and the left struggled violently for control. When a new government, the Weimar Republic Those military and political leaders who were responsible claimed that Germany had been "stabbed in the back" by its leftwing politicians, Communists, and Jews. German propaganda had not prepared the nation for defeat, resulting in a sense of injured German national pride. World War I ended in 1918 with a grisly total of 37 million casualties, including 9 million dead combatants. In fourteen years, a once obscure corporal, Adolf Hitler, would become the Chancellor of Germany. Holocaust Timeline: The Rise of the Nazi Partyįew would have thought that the Nazi Party, starting as a gang of unemployed soldiers in 1919, would become the legal government of Germany by 1933.
