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LECTURE 3:

The Struggle for Power

• Beer Hall Putsch - November 8-9, 1923
  
  
• Mein Kampf  (My Struggle / My Battle)
  
  
• Eric Ludendorff
  
  
• Ernst Röhm
  
  
• Julius Streicher (885 – 1946)
  
  
• Der Stürmer
  
  
• Alfred Rosenberg (1893 – 1946)
  
  
• Protocols of the Learned  Elders of Zion
  
  
• Gregor Strasser (1892 – 1934)
  
  
• Otto Strasser (1897 – 1974)
  
  
• Dawes Plan / Young Plan
  
  
• Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)
  
  
• Junkers
  
  
• Joseph Goebbels  1897 – 1945
  
  
• Working Group Northwest
  
  
• Gauleiter

 

By 1945 there are:          41   Gauleiter         808  Kreisleiter    28,376  Ortsgruppenleiter    89,378  Zellenleiter  463,048  Blockleiter 581,651 individuals representing the NSDAP

 

Growth of NSDAP Party Members:   1925                27,000 1926                35,000 1927                75,000 1928                108,000 1929                178,000  + 100,000 SA  (size of the German Army) 1932                450,000  + 400,000 SA  (4 times the size of Army)

• fuhrerprinzip
  
  
• Hitler Youth  (Hitlerjugend HJ)

Unemployed in Germany: 1928                650,000 1929                1.3 million unemployed 1930                3 million 1931                4.35 million 1932                6 million

• Heinrich Bruning (1885 – 1970)
  
  
• Chancellor 
  
  
• “presidential system”
   
• Kurt von Schleicher (1882 – 1934)
  
  
• Franz von Papen (1879 – 1969)

 

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