The Rise of Adolf Hitler

For many Germans born in the decade before the Great War, the years of the Weimar Republic were a disorienting time. Young people, seeking to escape the boredom of traditional schooling sought,

• adventure and companionship in hiking clubs and other clubs

• an opportunity to study in one of the great universities of England (i.e. – Oxford or Cambridge)

• an opportunity to study in one of the great universities of the United States (i.e. – Harvard, Yale, RUTGERS)

• relaxation and calm, after the horrors of the Great War

Many of the political parties in the Weimar Republic competed for the attention of,

• German Communists

• German females

• the elder groups of Germany

• the youth of Germany

In the 1920s, the Nazi Party established,

• a Boy Scouts camp in Berlin

• an exchange student program with other nations around the world

• the Hitler Youth

• the Ministry of Recreation and German Wellness

In October of 1929, a worldwide depression began and by 1932 of nearly 60 million people roughly,

• 5 million Germans were unemployed

• 6 million Germans were unemployed

• 7 million Germans were unemployed

• 8 million Germans were unemployed

Throughout the years of the Weimar Republic, dozens of political parties competed for the support of German citizens. By the mid-1920s, many of those parties were supported by,

• donations from ordinary German citizens from throughout the nation

• paramilitary groups, or private armies

• private donors with ties to the Nazi party

• wealthily German landowners

Leaders in Germany, like their counterparts in other countries, looked for ways to end the depression and,

• failed

• launched no social welfare programs and instead blamed the western powers for the ills of German society

• succeeded as Germany was the first to emerge from the depression with a roaring post-war economy in the late 1920s

• succeeded compared to other nations in Eastern Europe

Too many Germans, this governmental system appeared unable to cope with the economic collapse, thus helping the more extreme political parties to seem to offer clearer solutions to the problem.

• communism

• democracy

• Nazism

• socialism

To deal with the depression in Germany, the Communist Party said that the German government should,

• take over all German land and industry from capitalists

• allow for a free and open marketplace in Germany

• take all land and property from German Jews and re-distribute it to “pure” German citizens

• launch a massive social welfare program to help struggling Germans

To “deal” with the depression in Germany, the Nazi Party began a campaign placing all blame for the economic crisis on (the),

• Jews

• Communists

• liberals

• pacifists

• all of the above

In 1932, in preparation to run for president in the spring election, Adolf Hitler,

• became a German citizen

• declared loyalty to the German Kaiser and promised to restore the German monarchy once in power

• married longtime mistress Evan Braun

• officially announced his membership in the Nazi Party