1B.+Emergence+of+Leaders

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 * Aims
 * Destruction of democracy
 * Formation of a great German
 * Abolition of the Treaty of Versailles
 * Acquisition of Lebensraum - take over more territory in order to support the German population
 * Extermination of “sub-human” races - achievement of a pure, Aryan race
 * To increase his own power
 * To control the left-wing of the Nazi Party
 * To win over the army

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 * Ideology
 * Nazism
 * Anti-semitism - Jews defile the purity of the German race, therefore they should be exterminated
 * Social Darwinism/survival - Germans should form a Master Race in order to dominate others
 * Pan-Germanism - All Germans should unite
 * Anti-Marxism - Hostile to the ideas of Karl Marx
 * Anti-democracy - Democracy provided weak government; it should be replaced by a one-party state based on the principle of an all-powerful leader
 * Anti-capitalism - Disliked finance capitalism (the power that comes from being very rich) which was associated with Jews. He criticized large firms which exploited smaller producers
 * Socialism - Spoke in favor of socialism in terms of stressing the needs of the national community
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Support
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Joseph Goebbels[[image:250px-Goebbels-family.jpg align="right"]] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goebbles lead the Reichsministerium fuer Volksaufklaerung und Propaganda (RMVP) (or Ministry for Popular Elinghtenment and Propaganda), which was created in March 1933
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Through this position he soon became known as the Master of Propaganda
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many claim that he was the most educated of the Nazi leaders, as he also had a doctor of philology (science of language) title
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As his ambition to become a playwright failed he became a journalist
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Through this job he learned how to spread ideas through the media-> PROPAGANDA
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1922 he joined the NSDAP and was attracted to Gregor Strasser’s radical wing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ironically, in 1925 he demanded that the ‘bourgeois Hitler’ be expelled from the party
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet his view of Hitler soon changed as he became increasingly powerful in the party and was appointed Gauleiter of Berlin
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1927 he founded the paper “Der Angriff”, which over the years became very popular and one of the many ways Hitler and the Nazi party influenced the German opinion
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Not surprisingly then he became propaganda chief in 1928
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Two years later he was elected into the Reichstagin
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He mainly saw his mission in selling Hitler to the German public and organising the Fuehrer cult, offering himself to Hitler as his faithful servant[[image:ve301propaganda.gif align="right"]]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition, he also wanted to created one single German public opinion, which is why he stressed the importance of films and the radio
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was a powerful public speaker and this together with his organization of propaganda played a major role in gaining popular support for the Nazis before 1933
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was very antisemitic and issued the orders for Kristallnacht
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Naturally, there was bitter rivalry between him Goering and Ribbentrop as they all constantly fought for Hitler’s attention and approval
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ironically his propaganda went against his private life- family vs many mistresses
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After the defeat in Stalingrad Goebbles played a major role in organising Germany’s domestic war effort as he toured bombed cities, raising morale and organising relief
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was made General Plenipotentiary for the Mobilisation of total war to organise all manpower for the final effort to save off the disaster of the soviet advance
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In May 1945 he persuaded Hitler to make his dramatic suicide
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He himself poisoned his children, then shot his wife, and then finally killed himself
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For more info:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">speech on Jews: <span style="background-color: initial; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb1.htm_]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">most famous speech: <span style="background-color: initial; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb36.htm__]
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 * ====** Hermann Goering[[image:Hermann-Goering.JPG align="right"]] **====
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aims
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Restore the German frontiers of 1914
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Regain the pre-1914 overseas empire
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make Eastern Europe Germany's exclusive sphere of influence
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nazi consolidation of power
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using fear and terror as a means of persuasion and control
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extensive economic reprisals against Jews
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Execution of the Four-Year Plan
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Control of
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreign exchange
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Labour
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Raw materials
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prices
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ideology
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guided by traditional Machtpolitik in foreign policy conceptions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">State of international relations in which sovereigns protect their own interests by threatening one another with military, economic, or political aggression
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anti-semitism
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nazism
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Militarism
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 * ====** Heinrich Himmler[[image:himmler2.jpg align="right"]] **====
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although he looks very innocent he was known as The Exterminator
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Like many he was bitter at Germany’s defeat and thus he joined a nationalistic paramilitary group and participated in the Munich Putsch
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He became head of the SS in 1929
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1933 he took over the Bavarian police and within 3 years he had unified all the police and security forces under his control as Chief of German Police and Reich Leader SS
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He gained further power in 1939 by becoming Reich Commissioner for Strainghtening German Nationhood
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Through selective breeding he turned the SS into a a racial elite
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was the man in the party who ran the concentration camps
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He expanded the Waffen SS to rival the Wehrmacht
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1943 he became minister of the interior and in 1944 he was at the peak of his career and power as he was appointed Commander of the Reserve Army
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In April 1945, hoping to preserver some form of Nazi state, on his OWN initiative he tried to negotiate peace with the West and was dismissed for treachery by Hitler
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He committed suicide in May 1945
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He had overall control over the Holocaust
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ironically he suffered psychosomatic and nearly fainted at a mass execution
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was a firm believer in the occult in homeopathic medicine and in a romanticized view of history with the need of pure Germans to return to the soil, nonetheless he still organized inhuman scientific experiments and modernized murder
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He inculcated strict discipline and a perverted idealism into the SS which made them see committing mass murder as a form of sacrifice for the cause of a pure German master race
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you compare the SS support to his increase in power you can observe a positive correlation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For more info:
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Side note (taken from WEIMAR AND NAZI GERMANY BOOK): Role of the SS by 1940s
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Security [[image:hitlersingleptystate/Waffen-SS-recruiting-poster-px800.jpg width="313" height="432" align="right"]]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Defend Hitler
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">root out enemies
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">arbitrary arrests; special courts; camps
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SD intelligence reports on public feelings
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Military Elite military force
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Waffen SS grew to rival the Wehrmacht
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">suppressed Warsaw uprising in 1943
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Racial/Ideological
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To create a master race
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ran much of the conquered lands
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">organized labour/extermination camps
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">organized Einsatztgruppen
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ran elite schools
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">set up 12 lebensborn clinics to breed pure race
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Economic
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All areas
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">especially slave labor, armaments, construction, V-weapon production,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">over 150 firms
 * ====**Martin Bormann[[image:220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R14128A,_Martin_Bormann.jpg align="right"]]**====
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Through the exploitation of Hitler’s trust and the party machine he eventually became the second most important person in Germany
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After dropping out of school he fought in WWI, joined the Freikorps and in 1925 the Nazis
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was appointed Gauleiter of Thuringia in 1928, and in 1933 he became Chief-of-Staff to Hess
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He exploited the Nazi party to gain more power and became Hitler’s secretary in 1943
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Through the power of scheduling Hitler’s appointments, as well as his direct contact with him he was put in a position of great power
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This power further enabled him to cut Hitler off from more cautious opinions allowing them both to indulge in their racial fanaticism
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1954 he vanished, in 1946 he was sentenced to absentia and in 1973 his boned were found in Berlin.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For more info:
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 * ====**Joachin von Ribbentrop**====
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Straight access to Hitler
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1893-1946
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreign minister (1938-45)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Won over to the Nazis by the force of Hitler’s personality and his vision for Germany
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vain and domineering
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Middle class origins- brought to his noble status [[image:hitlersingleptystate/JoachimVonRibbentrop.jpg width="216" height="334" align="right"]]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From 1933 Hitler used him as an adviser on foreign policy
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Set up the Bureau Ribbentrop as a rival to the foreign office
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1934 Ribbentrop was made plenipotentiary for disarmament and an ambassador.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1935 negotiated the German- British naval agreement
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">August 1936 he was appointed an ambassador to Britain
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gave King George VI a Nazi salute
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Increasingly hostile to Britain, argued that Britain is weak and would not resist German expansion
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Supporter of the Rome-Berlin- Tokyo Axis
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and hanged in 1946
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He was noted for his virulent Anglophobia and anti- Semitism
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sources ====
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 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__Weimar and Nazi Germany__ ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://users.telenet.be/jeroenWO2/map%20lebensraum.jpg__] ====
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 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring#G.C3.B6ring_and_foreign_policy__] ====