•National Socialist Workers’ party = NAZI
•Adolf Hitler
–Born in Austria, 1889
–Formed the Brownshirts to seize power of the government.
–Hitler was arrested for starting trouble…while in jail he wrote MeinKampf (My Struggle).
•Germans were not at fault for losing the Great War, but should blame Jewsand communists.
•He declared Germans were the master race.
•Saw himself as the leader that would unite all German speaking people intoa new empire.
–Once released from jail…1929—Great Depression…he appealed toGerman citizens.
–1930s Nazis won a large number of seats in Reichstag—lower house.
–1933, he became Chancellor of Germany.
–The Nazis had come to power.
–Please take additional notes as you watch.