NCERT Solution: Nazism and the Rise of Hitler
1. He promised to build a string nation, undo the injustice of the Versailles Treaty and restore the dignity of the German people.
2. He promised employment for those looking for work, and a secure future for the youth.
3. He promised to weed out all foreign influences and resist all foreign conspiracies against Germany.
1. Schools and education institutions were also used to spread the Nazi Ideology.
2. School textbooks were rewritten.
3. Racial science was introduced to justify the Nazi ideas of race.
4. Hitler believed that boxing could make children iron hearted, strong and masculine.
1. Hitler wanted to achieve his long term aim of conquering Eastern Europe.
2. He wanted to ensure food supplies and living space for German.
3. So he attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941.
1. Germany lost its overseas colonies, a tenth of it population, 13 percent of it colonies, 75 percent of its iron and 26 percent of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania.
2. Weimer Republic was being made to pay for the sins of the old empire.
3. The republic carried the burden of war guilt and national humiliation and was financially crippled by being forced to pay compensations.
4. Those who supported the Weimer Republic, mainly Socialists, Catholics and Democrats, became easy targets of attack in the conservative nationalist circles.
5. The birth of Weimer Republic coincided with the revolutionary uprising of Spartacist League on the pattern of the Bolsheviks.
1. Politically, too the Weimer republic was Fragile. The Weimer Constitution had some inherent defects, which made it unstable and vulnerable to dictatorship.
2. One was proportional representation. This made achieving a majority by any one party a near impossible task, leading to a rule by coalition.
3. Another defect was Article 48, which gave the President the powers to impose emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree.
4. Within its short life the Weimar Republic saw twenty different cabinets lasting on an average 239 days, and a liberal use Article 48.
5. Yet the crises could not manage. People lost confidence in the democratic parliamentary system, which seemed to offer no solutions.