The Nazi Rise To Power

A Nazi Party election poster produced in the early 1930s using the slogan ‘work and bread’.

Courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.

A Nazi Party election poster produced in the early 1930s using the slogan ‘work and bread’.

Courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.

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This educational resource explores the different factors which contributed to the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933. It is expected that this educational resource would be used as part of a scheme of learning exploring Nazism, the Third Reich and the Holocaust.

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All sources are courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library and can be reproduced for educational purposes only. The Wiener Holocaust Library should be acknowledged in all reproductions.

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The Nazi Rise To Power Worksheet/Lesson Resource

Photographs showing the SA’s humiliation of Peter Walterscheidt in 1933.

An election poster from the 1932 Presidential Elections. This poster plays on the German peoples fear of poverty and misery, presenting Hitler as a strong leader who could help Germany to overcome poverty.

Nazi forces during the Beer Hall Putsch on 9 November 1923.

The cover of a 1933 Nazi propaganda children’s book entitled ‘Children, what do you know of the leader?’.

Photograph showing members of the Bund Deutscher Madel (The League of German Girls), a Nazi organisation for girls, performing acrobatics.

Photograph showing members of Nazi boys’ organisation Hitler Jugend (The Hitler Youth) marching.

Adolf Hitler giving a speech at a Nazi party meeting.

Paul von Hindenburg was the president of the Weimar Republic from the 12 May 1925 until his death on the 2 August 1934.