Nazism and the Rise of Hitler Test - 3

The Nazi youth organisation was known as the Youth League; in $$1926$$, it was renamed as Hitler Youth.

Germany had fought the war largely on loans and had to pay war reparations in gold. This depleted gold reserves at a time resources were scarce. In 1923 Germany refused to pay and the French occupied its leading industrial area, Ruhr, to claim their coal. Germany retaliated with passive resistance and printed paper currency recklessly. With too much currency in circulation, the value of the German mark fell. As the value of Mark collapsed, prices of goods soared.

Hitler was a powerful speaker. His passion and his words moved people. He devised a new style of politics. Under his leadership, Nazi held massive rallies and public meetings to demonstrate support for him. The Red banners with the Swastika, the Nazi salute, and the ritualised rounds of applause after the speeches were all part of this spectacle of power. Nazi propaganda projected him as a messiah and as a saviour.

Hitler was appointed the Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. His rise to power was the result of many factors including the impact of the Depression, hyperinflation, unemployment, the weaknesses of Weimar democracy, humiliations faced by the imposition of the Treaty of Versailles and the strengths of the Nazi party. However, the Balkan Wars, which took place around 1911-12 before the onset of the first world war, were not the reason behind the popularity of Hitler.

In schools under Nazis, Children were taught to be loyal and submissive, hate Jews and worship Hitler. The function of sports was to nurture a spirit of violence and aggression among children. At the age of 14 years, all boys had to join the Nazi youth organisation - Hitler Youth. In this organisation they were taught to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy, hate Jews, communists, Gypsies and undesirables.

German Nazi Party member Joseph Goebbels became Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister in 1933, which gave him power over all German radio, press, cinema and theater.
In 1925 Goebbels met the party leader Adolf Hitler. In 1926 he was made Gauleiter, or party leader, for the region of Berlin and in 1927 he founded and became editor of the official National Socialist periodical der Angriff. He was elected to the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1928. By  exploiting mob emotions and by employing all modern methods of propaganda Goebbels helped Hitler to gain power.
His work as a propagandist materially aided Hitler's rise to power in 1933. When Hitler seized power in 1933, Goebbels was appointed Reichsminister for propaganda and national enlightenment. From then until death, Goebbels used all media of education and communication to further Nazi propagandistic aims, instilling in the Germans the concept of their leader as a veritable god and of their destiny as the rulers of the world. In 1938 he became a member of the Hitler Cabinet Council.