Hitler- early years
• Wore brownshirts, pants
and boots
• Numbered almost
400,000 by 1932
Dictator
• “Reichstag fire” gives
Hitler total power
• In 1933, all parties
were outlawed except
the Nazi party
• People’s civil rights
were suspended
• “Night of the Long
Knives”
Absolute Power
• German economy was
improving, people were
happy
• Hilter had not political
opposition
• 1st concentration camp
opened in 1933
• Began rearming German
Army for expansion of
the Reich
THE
END
.......................Until the start of World War II