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The Holocaust – Lecture 8 Notes
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Timeline
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NSDAP Party Platform | 1920
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Beer Hall Putsch (Munich) | November 9, 1923
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Trial gives Hitler national audience | 1924
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“The small groups will become battalions, and the battalions
regiments, and the regiments armies
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Writes Mein Kampf while in prison | 1924
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Reorganizes movement into national one | 1925
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The Nazi party did not follow through with many of the points listed above when
they came into power
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Hitler was only in prison for about a year and a half
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Nazi Party Reorganized
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Party structure was flexible
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Relationship with followers: “leadership principle” (Fuhrerprinzip)
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Role of antisemitism in party
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Never received more than 2% of vote until 1930
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New successes in Reichstag elections 1930: 18.3%
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Role of Economic Crisis: it’s not what you think
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“The only thing to fear is fear itself” -FDR
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In America, utilize all resources and overcome the problem
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It was the fear of what was going to happen in Germany that created wild