HOW DID THE AIMS AND IDEOLOGY OF THE NAZI PARTY DEVELOP BETWEEN 1919-1923
What: What were the origins of hITLER'S THINKING AND HOW DID THIS INFLUENCE THE nsdap'S DEVELOPMENT 1919-23
How: Testing and collecting of evidence to support below thesis of the origins of Hitler and nazi ideology
Early Images of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP (Nazi Party) 1919-23
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fROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES FIND EVIDENCE THAT THESE IDEAS HAD AN IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON EARLY NAZI IDEOLOGY:
.- Key ideas
Volkisch/nationalist movements existed in many parts of Germany prior to First World War - Thule society
- Influence of social-Darwinism; race, political leadership, social organization
-Anti-semitism was casual and common in pre-1914 Germany as it was in many parts of Europe
-Virolent anti-semitism common among the right
- Authoritarian tradition strong e.g. Kaiserreich pre-unfication Prussia and Kaiserreich (1871-1918)
- Militarism strong as a result of legacy and continuties of the 18th century Prussian militairy state
- Racism as a consequence of empire, Germany had a limited overseas empire and hence tended towards ethno-centric racism in Austro-Hungarian Empire and East, anti-semitism
- Versailles humiliation: Freikorps in Polish corridor, Lithuania and Upper Silesia organised and wide-spread political education programs to stifle emerging danger of communism
-Stab in the back myth
Volkisch/nationalist movements existed in many parts of Germany prior to First World War - Thule society
- Influence of social-Darwinism; race, political leadership, social organization
-Anti-semitism was casual and common in pre-1914 Germany as it was in many parts of Europe
-Virolent anti-semitism common among the right
- Authoritarian tradition strong e.g. Kaiserreich pre-unfication Prussia and Kaiserreich (1871-1918)
- Militarism strong as a result of legacy and continuties of the 18th century Prussian militairy state
- Racism as a consequence of empire, Germany had a limited overseas empire and hence tended towards ethno-centric racism in Austro-Hungarian Empire and East, anti-semitism
- Versailles humiliation: Freikorps in Polish corridor, Lithuania and Upper Silesia organised and wide-spread political education programs to stifle emerging danger of communism
-Stab in the back myth
Activity 1: Read the first chapter from Dick Geary (don't worry it's not actually 50 pages!) and find evidence to support the above origins of Nazi ideology.
After you have read the chapter consider the following questions:
After you have read the chapter consider the following questions:
- To what extent was Nazism as an ideology more accurately 'Hitlerism'?
- Hitler was more a political agitator than a political thinker, to what extent do you agree with this view?
- the fundamentals of Nazism as an ideology were all in place prior to 1919, Nazism was incoherent in that it brought together disparate groups with a sense of injustice and offered inconsistent and contradictory aims as solutions to 1919.