1 Metaphore
- The German population was acting like a robot rogrammed by Hitler (brainwash)
Adolf Hitler
- born in Austria
- Parents: Klara and Alois Hitler
- Alois’s Father: Schickelgruber (Alcoholic) - Stepfather: Hedler
- Alois: Alcoholic, Abusive
- Klara: Afraid of Alois
- Adolf is youngest Child (*1896)
- moves to Vienna
- living on the streets
- paints postcards and sell them on the streets to make money
- Vienna mostly populated by jewish people
- angry at jewish people for not buying his cards
- application: Vienna school of Art
- passion for opera → Darwin→ Survival of the fittest
- Wagner forms idea: Germans are truly the fittest and Superior to everyone else
- First World War - Hitler joins German Military and excited to prove Germany to be superior
- Lucky in the War - believes that there is a divine plan for him from god
- Performs Well in War: Earns the Iron Cross second Class
- 1918: Gas- attack temporarily blinds him, receives Message of Germany surrendering in the war at the hospital
- “Reason for War loss by Jewish”
- “Stabbed in back by November criminals”
- At the end of the war: Hitler in Munich
- Looking for a revolutionary movement
- communism becomes popular (disintegration of tradition → not an option, demonstration of desperation)
- stumbles upon NSDAP in a beer hall
- Looking for a revolutionary movement
- NSDAP
- invented by Otto and Gregor Strasser (not good speakers)
- Hitler holds an impressive speech → invited to joins party (55 members)
- Hitler spreds the word of Naziism
- Strategy: Can I look after myself? and if not, who is responsible for that? Hitler convinces people that the foreigners and Jews are responsible
- Points:
- Get rid of Jews
- Get rid of foreigners → Single, frustrated men are identifying with
- Build up the Army party
- Hitler calls his followers SA (“Sturmabteilung”)/ Brownshirts
- Ernst Röhm: leads the organization of SA
- At this point, most Germans do not agree with Adolf Hitler’s Ideology
- Newspaper: Völkischer Beobachter
- 1923: Herman Göring: War Hero of First World War and Erich Ludendorff start following NSDAP
- Take over radio station and storm Police Station → Hitler thrown into jail
- → Beer Hall Putsch