Member 4 (Aidel) - Hitler's Charisma and Oratorical Skills

Adolf Hitler's Charisma
The Germans was supported Adolf Hitler by using his charismatic and oratorical skills. He uses those skills to his advantage in justifying the German's resent towards the Treaty of Versailles and sought to abolish the Treaty. Hitler had adopted an extreme form of German Nationalism. Just like Stalin. Hitler also manipulated his ways to his rise to power, waiting for favourable circumstances to pounce at.

Under Hitler's leadership, the Nazi Party became more efficient and gained respect of voters. Hitler was able to garner the support of the Germans as he knew exactly what to say.

One of Hitler's Speech

"Speeches of Hatred"

Hitler's Speeches

Hitler's speeches and the way he was portrayed convinced many Germans that he had able to bring Germany to greatness. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The thought of using Hitler to gain support in the Reichstag proved to be wrong as they did not have not met the true Hitler. When the time was ripe, Hitler acted decisively to take completed control over the entire Government.

Speech before Reichstag

This session of the Reichstag takes place on a date which is full of significance for the Germans. Four years have passed since the beginning of that great internal revolution which in the meantime has been giving a new aspect to German life.

Germans raising their hands to hail their leader,

Adolf Hitler, in his car drove past

Hitler's Quotes

Every famous leaders have their quotes to describe of what they have said. One of his famous quotes is "All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people" - Adolf Hitler 

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Member 3 (Brice) - The Great Depression

The Great Depression

The Great Depression is caused by a severe worldwide economic depression. Germany was affected the most because of the loans investment and other from America with that, Germany suffers a great economic depression known as the Great Depression.

At that time, many people were unemployed because they were not paid. People have to sleep on the streets as they did not have enough money to pay for the home rents and taxes. Some were starving to death while others died in cold temperatures.

Before The Great Depression

Adolf Hitler knew his opportunity has arrived. In good times before the Great Depression, the Nazi Party experienced slow growth, barely reaching 100,000 members in a country of over sixty million. But the party, despite its size, was a tightly controlled, highly disciplined organization of fanatics poised to spring into action.

Starving Boy in German Streets, 1930

Printing of Money

During the Great Depression, Germany printed stacks of money to be used as currency in Germany to make use of the Great Depression. However, the printed money was worthless because money is supported by how much gold the country has. When the money was printed, prices of basic goods skyrocketed because everyone got stacks of printed money and if the prices are low, they could dry out stock markets and it would not be equally shared by people in Germany.

Children playing and stacking with the stacks of

printed money

Impact

The impact on Weimar Germany was even more dire. Germans were not so much reliant on exports as they were on American loans, which had been propping up the Weimar economy since 1924. No further loans were issued from the late 1929, while American financiers began to call in existing loans. Despite its rapid growth, the German economy was not equipped for this retraction of cash and capital

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Member 2 (Faandy) - Economic Weakness of the Weimar Govenment

Economic weakness

~Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 28/06/1919 - £6600 million in reparation 

payments.

~The Ruhr crisis of 1923 - Germany couldn't pay, 

and France wasn’t happy as it needed the 

money to 

pay its debts to the USA. France and Belgium 

occupied the Ruhr to obtain goods.

~Hyperinflation - The government printed 

more 

money to pay the Ruhr workers.

~The Wall Street Crash, New York, 1929 - No 

more help available from the USA

hyperinflation

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Member 1 (Anaqi) - Political Weakness of the Weimar Govenment

Weimar Government was made up of many different parties. 

Communist Party - Extreme left

Social Democrats Party - Left

Centre Party & Democratic Party - Centre

Peoples Party & Nationalists - Right

Nazi Party - Extreme right

Right wing- a group that favours the existence of tradisional social classes and hierarchy.

Left wing- a group that supports social change to create a more     equal society. They favour equal advantages and opportunies as well as the collective good over individualism.

The Weimar Republic was born in a time great upheaval and conflict. The proportional representation system of voting was intended to reduce political conflicts; resulting in many parties gaining seats in the Reichstag.

As there was no single party in overall control parties had to join together to form a government. However, each party had different aims which made it difficult for the Reichstag to govern. Consequently, there were many changes of government which led to political instability. This was reflected in 376 political assassinations up to 1923.

Despite being from the democratic left, during the early 1920s, Friedrich Ebert relied heavily on the traditionally right-wing army and Freikorps in order to keep control of the country.

Conservative attitudes tended to overemphasise the threat from the left, whilst the threat from the right was severely under estimated.

The political spectrum of German political parties. During the early 1920s 32 different political parties were represented in the Reichstag. Each party had different aims which made it difficult for the Reichstag to govern.

Percentage of votes gained by the major German political parties in Reichstag elections, 1924-1932.

The Weimar Republic experienced severe problems from its start. Ebert, the first head of the Video of the political weakness of the Weimar government (First part of video only)WeimarRepublic,  and his government were in a very difficult position. Those on the left – communists and the like – had no respect for the government and the success of Lenin in Russiahad boosted their self-belief. Those on the right – former soldiers still bitter about the Armistice and the defeat in the war – also had no respect for the government as it had ‘betrayed’ them. Royalists, who wanted the Kaiser back had no respect for the government as it had been the Social Democrats who had told the Kaiser to abdicate. On top of this, the civilian population was still suffering from the effects of the war. In many senses, Ebert was isolated………yet he was head of Weimar Germany’s government. The most obvious symbol of his weakness was the fact that his control over Berlin – the nation’s capital – was very weak, yet he led the government.

1918 to 1919 saw take place what has frequently been called the “German Revolution”. Attempts to overthrow that government came from both the left and the right.

The Spartacists, German communists named after the slave who led a rebellion against the Romans,  challenged Ebert’s government, as did the right wing Free Corps (Freikorps) who were nationalists and usually former soldiers angered at what they saw as the government’s betrayal of the German Army in 1918.

Sources from: http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks4/the-nazi-rise-to-power/what-was-the-weimar-republic/political-weaknesses-of-the-weimar-republic/#.V26yn_l97IU