Mussolini: The Founder of Fascism
The Great Depression: The Main Ingredient
- Unemployment high
- Many angry workers
- hitler, like roosevelt
Brownshirts (S.A.)
- Hitler's henchmen
- used through the late twenties and early thirties to harass opposition parties unmercifully
- led by ernst rohm
- after hitler is elected many are appointed auxiliary police
The Burning of the Reichstag
- February 1933
- dutch communist convicted of the crime
- Hitler bullies with the help of the brownshirts the rechstag into passing the enabling act to face the coming communist revolution
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Summary
Hitlers henchmen (brownshirts) participated in the burning of the Reichstag which ultimately began a communist revolution