The document summarizes the political and economic instability in Germany following World War 1 and the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party by discussing key events like the Treaty of Versailles, hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, and Hitler's early actions infiltrating the German Worker's Party and organizing the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. It then outlines Hitler's path to becoming Chancellor in 1933 following the Reichstag Fire, establishing a one-party Nazi state, and beginning to rebuild Germany economically and socially through public works projects and cultural campaigns against degenerate art.

1. The Interwar Period and the Rise of Adolph Hitler

3. “ Hands off German homeland!” Postcards Title: “Lost but not forgotten land” Poem: You must carve in your heart These words, as in stone - What we have lost Will be regained!

5. Polish Corridor Europe: 1919-1938 Rhineland Alsace-Lorraine

7. Czechoslovakia and Sudetenland Ethnic Distribution in Austria-Hungary (1911) German Czech

9. Inflation

10. Inflation 1914: 10 Pfennig = ½ dozen eggs 1920: 1 Mark = ½ dozen eggs 1921: 3 Mark = ½ dozen eggs Jan. 1923: 250 Marks = ½ dozen eggs Sept. 1923: 15 Million Marks = ½ dozen eggs Oct. 1923: 2 Billion Marks = ½ dozen eggs 1923: Ruhr Crisis

12. Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945 The Murky Family History of Adolph Hitler

13. Hitler, Munich: August, 1914 Social Darwinism

14. Hitler and World War I Romanticize, Nostalgia

15. Hitler After WWI 1919: Hitler infiltrates German Worker’s Party 1920: Hitler leaves military 1921: Hitler = F ü hrer of National Socialist German Worker’s (Nazi) Party 1923-1924: Beer Hall Putsch/Prison 1930: Great Depression; Nazi representation Reichstag 2.6 ->18.3%

16. Geli Raubal Scandal ( 1931 ) Hitler becomes a vegetarian. Phobias: Dirt, Germs, Death Insomniac, hypochondriac

17. Hitler v. von Hindenburg (1932) 1847-1934 1933: Hitler becomes chancellor

18. Reichstag Fire (February, 1933) Reichstag Fire Decree : Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom, freedom of opinion, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications, and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed. March, 1933 Elections: Nazi Party = 43.9%/Reichstag

19. Night of the Long Knives (June 30-July 2, 1934) 85+ executed, thousands arrested SS (“protective squadron”) v. SA (“storm battalion”)

20. Establishment of the Third Reich (August, 1934)

22. Hitler Reconstructs Germany Socially Degenerate Art Exhibition (1937)

23. Otto Dix, “Mealtime in the Trenches (1923/24)

24. Pablo Picasso, “Guernica” (1937)

25. Helmut Herzfeld, “Hurrah, die Butter ist alle!” [Hurray, the butter is finished!] (1935)

26. “ Degenerate Music” (1937)

27. Marcel Duchamp, “Nude Descending a Staircase” (1912)

28. Visitors at the Degenerate Art exhibition

29. Visitors at the Great German Art exhibition