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The Nazis' Rise to Power in 1933

in this first video we're going to talk about who the Nazis were in 1933 and I purposely chased this image because this is the image this is the moment when Hitler's really this is when he takes power so in January of 1933 the Nazis get the majority in the Reichstag of seats in the Reichstag and Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany and these are the crowds outside Hitler's office as he stands there in the light in his office now I'd like to look at in this video who the Nazis were in 1933 a look at two separate issues first long and a look at the story of how they got into power in 1933 this is something if you're doing the OCR be course you're not going to get tested on but it's important background knowledge and secondly we're gonna look at who the Nazi leaders were in 1933 so first off let's start with the story of how the Nazi Party really came to be in 1933 now this story actually doesn't begin in 1933 it begins a lot further back in 1918 and in 1918 the Germans about to lose the first world war this is really important for Germany because and as a result of them leading the first world war the country is humiliated it is depressed and it's kind of broken as a country now after the first world war the Allies the people who win in the First World War sit down at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris and they decide what they're going to do with Germany and they put really harsh restrictions on Germany firstly Germany's forced to take the blame for the entirety of the first world war even though it wasn't just them the Germans forced to take the blame as a result of them taking the blame the Allies are allowed to impose restrictions on them they heavily restrict their military so for example their armies only allowed a hundred thousand men they heavily restrict the amount of land that Germany can own so lots of German country places that were Germany before are now given to other countries for example parts of Poland now in addition to that they are also forced to pay a huge financial sum of a so-called reparations which means money the Allies for the war and they're forced to pay 6.6 billion pounds which sounds a lot of money now but in 1918 was a colossal sum of money so as a result the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles Germany is extremely depressed humiliated and broken and it's in that context that extreme parties start cropping up in Germany and one of those extreme parties was the National Socialist Party or in short the Nazi Party so the Nazi Party were an extreme right-wing party that began in that kind of context of Germany being a broken country after the war and initially they did okay and they're really force formed in the south of Germany in a place called Bavaria and in Bavaria in 1923 one of the most important events in the story of the Nazi party's creation mr. Munich perch because they were a very right-wing party and they decided in 1923 they were going to try and take power by force so in 1923 the Hitler who you can see here and his leaders walk into the middle of Munich and try and take power now that event is actually a complete failure but it's really important story as part of the Nazi Party because as a result of that Hitler is what is jailed no I this photo here I know it doesn't look like much for jail you can see the hitless sat in his jail cell with freshly cut flowers on a toe with a tablecloth and really importantly in jail Hitler was sort of a celebrity and he was sort of a celebrity in the courts before he got to jail as a result of this idea that he was trying to do so different by trying to take power by force equally in jail important for Hitler Hitler gets time to write his own book and that book is called mine Kumpf or my struggle and in that book Hitler was able to express all of his views very clearly and then that book was sold to the German people so jail for Hitler wasn't necessarily a bad thing now after a while after about six months Hitler gets released from jail and after a two-year three-year ban the Nazi Party is relaunched and it's relaunched again in Germany and now the Nazi Party are not gonna try and take power by force they're gonna try and take power through democracy actually the party in the late 1920s it's a complete miserable failure it's a failure because Germany actually towards the end of the 1920s is doing really quite well the Highmark government are running things quite well the economy is booming things are going brilliantly that changes and it changes really importantly in 1929 when the Wall Street Crash happens and as a result the Wall Street Crash stock market prices crash globally this leads to a massive Great Depression a Great Depression when there is vast unemployment vast poverty vast amounts of people being really quite hungry and starving as a result of having no money and the great depression hits Germany worse than most other countries in that context the Nazis suddenly start changing their ways and the Nazis very simply promised a starving hungry people two things are bite on put our bite is work and what is bread and you can see on the right-hand side here that the Nazis suddenly start doing a lot better 1928 before the Wall Street Crash they were only able to get 12 seats in the Reichstag by 1930 that jumps to 107 by 1932 you can suddenly see them winning an immense amount the seats in the Reichstag leading up to 1933 which is where a story we began with in this video where they get 288 seats that's the story of how they came to be and as I said you're not going to get tested on that but I think it's important you have that background knowledge now let's have a look at who the leaders were in the Nazi Party then in 1933 when we'll start with this photo here and this is a photo of the leaders in 33 you probably already know who this man is this is a Dolf Hitler and that off Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party he was a very charismatic speaker passionate and driven this man to the right of Hitler is Joseph Goebbels Joseph Goebbels was a doctor and he was in charge of propaganda he was an extremely clever man who worked out ways of selling the Nazi message to the masses this man over here you can see with some very small glasses on this is Heinrich Himmler Himmler was in charge of the SS the black shirts and you can see him wearing a black uniform in this picture and the SS were one of two armies the Nazis had they had two the SS were the elite army like the best of the best now that SS army were the ones who eventually are going to run the terror system and the concentration camps they're the ones who if I'm honest it's the ones that they're the ones who the Nazis are very famous for because they're the ones who commit awful crimes this man in the middle with the big coat this is Hermann Goering and Hermann Goering was the deputy leader of the Nazi Party he was an ex-fighter pilot from the first world war and really he's a big showman again a very good speaker the other man in the middle you can see right in the middle here behind Hitler he ran the other army the essay and the essay would have brown shirts and the essay was a normal army they were much much larger in terms of their number if their force and their membership than the SS and Ernst röhm mr. Mann he's running them finally this man right in the corner is Rudolf Hess and Hess was really in charge of the party in its organization from Munich in South Germany so who were the Nazi Party in 1933 in this video we've looked at their rise and we've looked at who those leaders were a really good way of consolidating your knowledge with this would allow me to summarize what you've just learned in this eight nine minute video into a chunky paragraph good luck