HISTORY YEAR 10: NAZI IDEOLOGY

HISTORY YEAR 10: NAZI IDEOLOGY. It contains: Hitler beginnings, Nazi ideology, the appeal of the Nazis, Nazis popularity, Nazi propaganda, questions and answers.

1. YEAR 10 HISTORY NAZI GERMANY 1. NAZI IDEOLOGY

2. THE BEGINNINGS In 1919, Adolf Hitler joined a small right-wing group called the German Workers' Party. He took over as its leader, and changed its name to the National Socialists (Nazis). The party developed a 25-Point Programme, which - after the failure of the Munich Putsch in 1924 - Hitler explained further in his book 'Mein Kampf '.

3. WHAT WAS THE NAZI IDEOLOGY? Führer - there should be a single leader with complete power rather than a democracy. Autarky - Germany should be economically self-sufficient. A strong Germany - the Treaty of Versailles should be abolished and all German-speaking people united in one country. Germany in danger - from Communists and Jews, who had to be destroyed. Lebensraum - the need for 'living space' for the German nation to expand. Social Darwinism - the idea that the Aryan race was superior and Jews were 'subhuman'.

4. THE APPEAL OF THE NAZIS In the 1920s, the Nazis tried to be all things to all people. The 25-Point Programme had policies that were: socialist - eg farmers should be given their land, pensions should improve, and public industries such as electricity and water should be owned by the state. nationalist - all German-speaking people should be united in one country, the Treaty of Versailles should be abolished, and there should be special laws for foreigners. racist - Jews should not be German citizens and immigration should be stopped fascist - a strong central government and control of the newspapers

5. THE NAZIS DID NOT APPEAL TO… working men who voted Communists intellectuals such as students and university professors

6. THE NAZIS WERE POPULAR WITH… Nationalists and racists Farmers Lower middle-class people such as plumbers and shopkeepers who were worried about the chaos Germany was in Rich people worried by the threat from Communism

7. NAZI PROPAGANDA Hitler put Josef Goebbels in charge of Nazi propaganda. Methods of campaigning that the Nazis used in the 1920s included radio, mass rallies, newspapers ( eg 'Der Sturmer '), Hitler's speeches, and posters. The Nazis used crude slogans to introduce these ideas and to make them appeal to the ordinary people of Germany.

8. QUESTION - 2 MINUTES Look at the posters. These posters were targeted at specific groups - can you work out who these posters were meant to appeal to?

9. ANSWER Poster 1:  Unemployed people Poster 2:  Mothers and women Poster 3:  Racists (the picture shows a fat Jewish employer controlling German workers' lives) Poster 4:  Rich people (because they feared that the Communists would nationalise their farms and factories)