HIS338H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heinrich Von Treitschke, Christianity And Antisemitism, Mein Kampf
Document Summary
Interwar germany and the rise of national socialism. Background: germany"s role in ww1, germany"s defeat in 1918, socialist declaration of the republic, november 1918, communist revolution, 1918-1919, the treaty of versailles (june 1919) Phases: 1919-1923: emergence of the radical right and the nsdap (national socialist german. Worker"s party: 1924-1929: stabilization, 1929: depression, 1930-1933: dramatic rise of the nazi party, 1933: hitler becomes chancellor and creates the enabling act. The failure of democracy: some explanations: the humiliation of defeat and the treaty of versailles, political instability and fragmentation, the depression. Nazi antisemitism: mein kampf, political antisemitism, the centrality of anti-semitism to the rise of nazism, the volksgemeinschaft. People quite eager to go to war in. 1914 but be end, was a real fatigue and frustration with no real results. Very first time germany has any experience with democracy. When the war came to and end, he stepped down. War also signified end of an old ruling elite.
