NCERT Solution: Nazism and the Rise of Hitler
Nazi Party
Weimer Republic
1. Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven leading Nazis to death.
2. Many others were imprisoned for life.
3. The Allies were not in favour of harsh punishment to Nazis as they felt that the rise of Nazi Germany could be party traced back to the German experience at the end of the First World War.
1. In May 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies.
2. Anticipating, Hitler his propaganda minister Goebbels and his entire family committed suicide collectively in his Berlin bunker in April.
3. At the end of the war, an international Military tribunal at Nuremberg was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals for crimes against peace, for war crimes and crimes against Humanity.
1. The birth of Weimer Republic coincided with the revolutionary uprising of the Sparta cist League on the pattern of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
2. Soviets of workers and sailors were established in many cities. The political atmosphere in Berlin was charged with demands of Soviet style of governance.
3. The anguished Sparta cists later founded the Communist Party of Germany.
1. Many Germans held the new Weimer Republic responsible for defeat in the war and disgrace at Versailles.
2. The peace of treaty was harsh and humiliating for the Germans.
3. The allied powers demilitarized Germany to weaken its power.