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The Nazis: A warning from History
Episode 1: ‘Helped into power’

Questions

1. Why were German soldiers surprised at Germany’s armistice in 1918?

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2. What was the ‘stab in the back’ theory?

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3. What was the state inside Germany at the end of the war?
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4. What was the impact of this suffering?

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5. Who were the Freikorps and what was their role in post-war Germany?
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6. Why were Jews ‘convenient scapegoats’?

Mostof the Weimar Republicleaders were Jews

7. What factors encouraged some Germans to move towards right wing politics in the
early 1920s?
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8. What was the significance of the failed Munich Putsch of 1923?
Hitler usedhis court trial to advertise himself

9. What is revealed about the sympathies of the legal system?

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10. How was Weimar Germany’s recovery financed in the 1920s?

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11. What kind of ideas were already prevelant within the Nazi Party in the 1920s?
anti semitism
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12. What was the role of the SA? What was the attraction of the SA to many men?
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13. How did the Nazi party function? How did the idea of ‘survival of the fittest’ work
within the Nazi Party organisation?

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14. What was the situation of the Nazi Party in 1928?
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15. How did the Depression benefit the Nazi party and why?
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16. Which other group benefitted from the Depression?
the communists

17. What was sigficant about Hitler’s 1932 presidential election campaign?
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18. What was the attraction of the Nazi party and Hitler to Germans?
Hitlerpromisedtoget themout ofmisery
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19. What was Hitler’s attitude towards other political parties?

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20. Why did Hindenberg not want to give the Chancellorship to Hitler?

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21. Why was pressure put on Hindenberg to change his mind?

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22. Why did the traditional right wing politicans support Hitler?

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23. Why is the title of this video called “Helped into Power?’

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