Nazi Rise

  • Nazi party begins to emerge

  • Adolf Hitler attended a meeting

    Bad mojo to the Nazis, dude.
  • Political elections

  • Hitler declared himself the party’s fuhrer

    Everything is going down hill from here.
  • Hitler pledged to make NSDAP into a legitimate party

  • Popularity Spread?

    the NSDAP was popular with farmers, small business owners, and others in the middle-class who felt ignored or betrayed by the Weimar government.
  • The Great Depression

  • Nazis won 230 seats

    by far the highest number held by one party in the Reichstag at any point during the Weimar period
  • The Chancellor Deal

    Hindenburg agreed, offering the chancellorship to Adolf Hitler and inviting him to form government.
  • destructive fire in the Reichstag building in Berlin

  • Nazis introduced the Enabling Act into the Reichstag.

  • Nazis made a declaration

  • Hitler gained the support of the German Army

    killed off several leaders of the uncontrollable SA
  • President Hindenburg died Hitler assumed control of government

    Here is where there really is no turning back.
  • Hitler reintroduced the draft.

  • Hitler ordered German troops back into the Rhineland

  • Hitler laid out his concerns

    He was worried about Germany’s economic growth, stressing the need for self-sufficiency in food and raw materials.
  • Austrian chancellor held a vote on Austrian independence

  • First meeting

    British prime minister Neville Chamberlain intervened, meeting the fuhrer three times in September 1938.
  • Hitler is being petty again

    Hitler, Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini (Italy) and Edouard Daladier (France) met in Munich to resolve the crisis.
  • The Great Depression Ended