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3. Nazism and the Rise of Hitler
3. Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

Memory Points
Memory Points
• Germany, a powerful empire in the early years of the twentieth century, fought the First World War
(1914–1918) alongside the Austrian empire and against the Allies (England, France, and Russia.)

• The defeat of Imperial Germany and the abdication of the emperor gave an opportunity to
parliamentary parties to recast German polity.

• A National Assembly met at Weimar and established a democratic constitution with a federal
structure.
• Deputies were now elected to the German Parliament or Reichstag, on the basis of equal and
universal votes cast by all adults including women.

• The newly established Weimar Republic had to face many problems since its beginning, such as, the
terms and conditions of Treaty of Versailles were too harsh and humiliating; Germany had to agree
to pay huge war compensation amounting to 6 million pounds to the Allied countries, etc.
• Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, is a term
used to describe the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party
controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

• After Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic, Paul
von Hindenburg on 30th January 1933, the Nazi Party began the process of consolidation of power
and elimination of political opposition.

EXERCISE
EXERCISE

Choose the correct option
1. In which country did Nazism emerge as a political ideology?

a. Italy b. Germany c. Japan d. France

2. What was the title of Adolf Hitler's autobiography, where he outlined his political ideology and future
plans for Germany?
a. The Communist Manifesto b. Mein Kampf
c. The Art of War d. The Republic

3. The Nuremberg Laws, enacted in 1935, targeted which group of people, stripping them of their
citizenship and rights in Nazi Germany?

a. Jews b. Christians c. Communists d. Aryans
4. Which Nazi concentration camp became a symbol of the Holocaust, where millions of innocent
people were systematically killed?
a. Auschwitz b. Dachau c. Buchenwald d. Treblinka

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