Hitler

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Hitler
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Germany ? Great Depression

• Germany reeling from WWI, Inflation was
  skyrocketing.
• Reacting to economic hardships imposed from
  Treaty of Versailles.
• Reacting to Battered hopes.
• A diminished sense of national greatness.
• More and more Europeans turned to Fascism as the
  key to improving their lives and renewing the
  national spirit.

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Hitlers Youth

• Hitler went to Austria to be an artist, yet was
  rejected. It was there that he acquired his
  belief in superiority over Jews, Poles, Serbs
• Hitler fought in WW1 and like others blamed the
  gov. for the loss became Nazi Party leader
• 1923 tried to declare a Revolution in Munich,
  sent to jail where he wrote Mein Kampf (My
  Struggle)

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Mein Kampf

• Aryans are the master race Jews enemies
• Devil takes form as Jews on earth
• 9/10s of all literary filth, artistic trash, and
  theatrical idiocy can be traced to Jews
• Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting
  girl who he defiles with his blood, thus stealing
  her from her people
• Jews brought Negroes to Rhineland with aim of
  ruining the hated white race
• Jew Parasite that spreads

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Mein Kampf cont.

• Jewish doctrine of Marxism rejects our
  principles of Nature
• With Marxist creed, the Jew is victorious over
  the people of the world, his crown will be the
  funeral wreath of humanity and this planet
• By defending myself against the Jew, I am
  fighting for the work of the Lord
• Jews as a united people turn into a horde of
  rats fighting bloodily among themselves

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Hitlers Appeal

• Excellent Speaker
• Held audiences attention
• Would speak for hours
• Did not use notes
• Made promises
• No opposition
• Gave people hope

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Reasons for Hitler coming to Power

• Germanys defeat in WW I left the people
  demoralized, bitter, and empty.
• Treaty of Versailles punished Germany 32
  billion
• Government, Weimar Republic. was weak
• Communist uprisings broke out brought fear to
  non-Communist countries.
• Worldwide Great Depression

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Hitlers Third Reich

• Militarism
• National Pride
• Economic Public Works Programs
• Gestapo-Secret Police
• Totalitarian State
• Rejected Versailles Treaty
• Hitler Youth Programs

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Cleansing Germany

• Education was a propaganda tool
• Burned Jewish or anti-Nazi books All Quiet on
  the Western Front
• Hitler saw Christianity as weak-Closed Catholic
  Schools

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Hitlers persecution of the Jews

• Hitlers Blood Hierarchy

Aryans- Germany/Austria
Nordics- Sweden/Norway
Anglo-Saxons- Britain/USA
Sub-Human
Latin- France/Spain/Greece
Slavs- Russia/Serbia/Czechoslovakia
Exterminated
Dregs- Jews/Homosexuals/Gypsies/Physically-Mentall
y Disabled
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Hitlers Role in the World
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Reasons for Hitler coming to Power

• Hitler had a plan ? Mein Kempf
• Nationalist ideas
• Rebuild military
• Appeals to their quest for revenge for WWI
  responsibility

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He put 7 million people back to work!
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The Third Reich

• Hitler proclaimed Germany as the Third Reich or
  the Third Holy Roman Empire.
• The Third Reich was suppose to be (according to
  Hitler) the successor to the Holy Roman Empire
  and the German Empire.

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"Brownshirts."

• In German, Sturmabteilung.
• Storm Troopers.
• Also called "Brownshirts." Members of a special
  armed and uniformed branch of the Nazi party.

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Gestapo

• In German, Geheime Staatspolizei. Secret State
  Police.

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The SS

• In German, Schutzstaffel. Protection Squad. Units
  formed in 1925 as Hitler's personal bodyguard.
  The SS was later built into a giant organization
  by Heinrich Himmler. It provided staff for
  police, camp guards, and military units
  (Waffen-SS) serving with the German army.

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Hitler and his Henchmen
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June 30, 1934 The night of the long knives-
Hitlers SS arrested then murdered several
hundred of Hitler's enemies
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Campaigning against the Jews

• 1935 Nuremberg Laws Set restrictions on Jews
• Arm bands Star of David
• No school for Jews
• Jews only married Jews
• No prestigious jobs for Jews

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Kristallnacht

• The Night of Broken Glass
• Jewish stores were broken into
• Synagogues were burned
• Jews were dragged from their homes and beaten in
  the streets
• Sent to concentration camps

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Final Solution

• Hitlers idea to eliminate all inferior groups of
  people
• Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Handicapped,
  Catholics, Poles, Serbs
• Work camps, Concentration camps, Death camps
• 6 million Jews died as a result of the Holocaust

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Entrance to Concentration Camp