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Origins of Weimar Republic

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Hitler joined the German Worker’s Party (DAP), a right-wing group led by Anton Drexler.

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Early challenges to the Weimar Republic

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Dexler and Hitler both produce and publish the party’s manifesto known as the “25-point programme”

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Hitler became the Party’s leading public speaker and propagandist.

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The group changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) – or Nazis for short.

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Hitler elected Party Chairman and leader of the Nazis.

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Munich Putsch
-used as a way to gain publicity even though it failed

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Recovery of the Republic

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Changes in society

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Hitler is released from jail.

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27th Feb 1925- Hitler relaunches the Nazi party- 4000 people attend the meeting and a further 1000 are turned away

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Despite all propaganda they lose 12 seats and only poll 810,000 votes

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Wall Street Crash.

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Hitler gains 11m votes in the presidential election.

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Hitler wins 13m votes in the presidential election.

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Von Papen becomes chancellor,

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Reichstag elections. Nazis win 230 seats. Image from BBC Bitesize.

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Reichstag elections called by Von Papen to try to win a majority in parliament. Nazis lost 34 seats but remained the largest party with 196 seats.

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Schleicher becomes chancellor.

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secret rearmament

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Hitler becomes chancellor.

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conscription
marched into rhineland (30 000)
allies with italy and japan
made facs with weapon facs (openly rearming)

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used spanish cival war to test out 'new' weapons — tanks, aircrafts

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personal command of armed forces
anschluss — german army annexed austria (nazis were sent into austria to show there was unrest so hitler could invade to help the gvt.)
invades the sudetenland to "protect 3m Germans there", claims czech gvt mistreated said germans

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pact of steel - signed with Stalin so they would invade poland together. he knew he couldn't fight on two fronts.
seized rest of czechoslovakia
wanted a polish corridor as germany was split
3rd of September, gb declares war