HITLER'S RISE TO POWER {CLASS 9 HIS CHAP-2 }

• Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. He spent his youth in poverty. 
• When the first world war broke out he enrolled for the army acted as a messenger, became a corporal and earned medals for bravery. Treaty of Versailles made him furious and he joined a small group called German worker's party in 1919.
• He subsequently took over the organisation and renamed it National Socialist German Workers party. this party came to be known as Nazi Party.
• In 1928, nazi party got 2.6% votes in Reichstag. By 1932, it had become the largest party with 37% of votes.
• Hitler was a powerful speaker. He promised to weed out all foreign influences and resist all foreign conspiracies against Germany.
• He promised to build a strong nation and instill a sense of unity among the people.
• The red banners with the swastika, the nazi salute and the ritualized rounds of applause after the speeches were all part of this spectacle of power.
• Nazi propaganda skillfully projected Hitler as a messiah, a saviour as someone who had arrived to deliver people for their distress. 

THE DESTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY

• On 30th January 1933, President Hindenburg offered him chancellorship in the cabinet of ministers.
• Having acquired power Hitler set out to dismantle the structure of democratic rule.
• The Fire Decree of 28 February 1933 suspended civic rights guaranteed by the Weimar constitution.
• On 3rd march the famous Enabling Act was passed. This act established dictatorship in Germany. It gave Hitler all powers, sideline parliament and rule by decree.

RECONSTRUCTION

• Hitler assigned the responsibility of economic recovery, full employment through a state funded work creation program.
• He pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933 and reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936 and integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan "one people one empire one leader".
• In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. This started a war with France and England.
• In September 1940 a Tripartite pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan. Supportive of Nazi Germany were installed in a large part of Europe. By the end of 1940, Hitler was at the pinnacle of his power.
• He attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941 which inflicted a crushing and humiliating defeat on Germany at Stalingard.
• When Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombed the US base at Pearl Harbour, US entered the second world war. The war ended in May 1945 with Hitler's defeat and the US dropping of the atom bomb at Hiroshima in Japan.