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Nazi Leaders in 1933
Cards in this deck (7)
- 1Adolf HitlerLeader of Nazi party from 1921
Charismatic - great speaker
Imprisoned for attempt to seize power in 1923
Wrote book - Mein Kampf. Set out his ideology. - 2Hermann Goring2nd in Command in the Nazi Party.
WWI war hero.
Given job in the Cabinet in Jan 1933 (one of only 3 Nazis)
In control of the Police in Prussia (biggest region in Germany.
Formed the Gestapo in 1933 - Secret police
- 3Joseph GoebbelsMinister for propaganda
Recognised the power of using radio, newspapers, cinema etc to spread Nazi ideas.
Highly intelligent
Very anti-Semitic.
- 4Heinrich HimmlerLed the SS or Protection Squad (nickname: Blackshirts).
200,000 members by end 1933.
Had an 'elite guard' (approx 50,000) of fanatical Nazis.
Involved in surveillance and terror of German people.
Ran the concentration camps and later the death camps.
Himmler was in charge of the Holocaust.
- 5Ernst RohmLeader of the SA or stormtroopers (nickname: Brownshirts)
Hitler's private army.
Used to intimidate voters (scare them into voting Nazi), break up opponents' political meetings & beat up communists
- 6Rudolph HessDeputy leader of Nazi party. 3rd in command after Hitler and Goring.
WWI war hero.
His job to ensure all new laws closely followed Nazi ideology.
He fled flew to England to try and negotiate peace. Arrested and imprisoned in Tower of London
- 7Wilhelm FrickAn experienced politician
One of the three Nazis in Cabinet in 1933
Minister for Interior
Helped to form Nazi racial policies.
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- Key info about main Nazi leaders in 1933 - taken from P10 of OCR textbook
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- Tom Lea
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