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Germany's military leaders changed as they were blamed for the nation's defeat and humiliation of a previous battle.
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In 1921 Hitler had become Germany's first-ever president.
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• only the strong survive
• the hated communism is regarded as a Jewish ideology
• the Germanic master race must defeat its racial enemies,
especially the Jews
• Germany must gain Lebensraum (living room) for its
expanding population by taking land from non-Aryan
races
• the Führerprinzip (leader principle) dictates that all
opposition must be crushed and there must be total obedience to the leader. -
The Hitler Youth was founded in 1926 to indoctrinate young Germans.
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Joseph Goebbels was appointed to head the Nazi propaganda unit in 1929. He organised the party’s election campaigns and won over many middle-class voters, who turned from other conservative parties to the Nazis out of fear of communism.
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• Trade unions were abolished and the German Labour
The front was established to control workers.
• ‘Un-German’ books were publicly burned.
• Like the Communist Party, the SPD was banned
• German communists, socialists and other anti-Nazis were sent to concentration camps.
• Education was made a tool of Nazi propaganda.
• The Nazis organised attacks against Jews and
Jewish property and a boycott of Jewish businesses, and banned Jews from the civil service and professions. -
Hitler used the other Nazi paramilitary force, the SS, to murder around 180 leading SA members and more than 200 other political opponents. To justify this, Hitler claimed that the SA was planning an uprising.