Explain how the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and gained and maintained power in Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.
Clarifications
Clarification 1: Students will compare Germany’s political parties and their system of proportional representation in national elections from 1920 to 1932.
Clarification 2: Students will explain how the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS), the Wehrmacht, the Gestapo and Hitler’s inner circle helped him gain and maintain power after 1933.
Clarification 3: Students will explain how the following contributed to Hitler’s rise to power: Adolf Hitler’s Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler’s arrest and trial, Mein Kampf, the Reichstag fire, the Enabling Act, the Concordat of 1933, the Night of the Long Knives (the Rohm Purge), Hindenburg’s death and Hitler as Fuhrer.
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Holocaust Education
Date Adopted or Revised: 05/24
Status: State Board Approved
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Related Access Points
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.4 | Explain how the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and gained and maintained power in Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. |
