Tag: causes and impact of nazism

• The Nazis were nationalists and believed that Germany was a great country that had been humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles.
• They aimed to make Germany great again by expanding beyond the borders drawn by Versailles.

Hitler assigned the responsibility of economic recovery to the economist Hjalmar Schacht who aimed at full production and full employment through a state-funded work-creation programme. This project produced the famous German superhighways and the people’s car, the Volkswagen. 

• Conscription is the process of making all men join the army for a set time.
• In 1935, Hitler planned to reintroduce conscription in Germany though it was forbidden according to the Treaty of Versailles.

 In 1919, he joined a small group called the German Workers Party. He subsequently took over the organisation and renamed it the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. This party came to be known as the Nazi Party. 

• Many governments across the world refused to accept German refugees, but the British government responded to a campaign and decided to allow children upto the age of 17, who had a bond of 50 pounds, to enter the country on a temporary visa.

Mass killings were termed special treatment, final solution (for the Jews), euthanasia (for the disabled), selection and disinfections. ‘Evacuation’ meant deporting people to gas chambers. They were labelled ‘disinfection-areas’, and looked like bathrooms equipped with fake showerheads. 

 In 1919, he joined a small group called the German Workers Party. He subsequently took over the organisation and renamed it the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. This party came to be known as the Nazi Party. 

• In March 1938, the leader of Austria, a Nazi invited the Germans to occupy Austria to stop a communist plot.
• The opposition was crushed and 99 out of 100 Austrians voted to become part of Greater Germany.