Feb 5, 8, 11, 13: Learn about life in the ghettos

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Looking Ahead (1/2)

• Feb 5, 8, 11, 13 Learn about life in the ghettos
• Feb 14 Research learn about the film The
  Pianist
• Feb 18, 19, 21 The Pianist
• Feb 22 Discuss film Quiz

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Looking Ahead (3/4)

• Feb 7, 11, 12, 14 Learn about life in the
  ghettos
• Feb 15 Research learn about the film The
  Pianist
• Feb 19, 20, 22 The Pianist
• Feb 25 Discuss film Quiz

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Looking Ahead (5/6)

• Feb 5, 7, 8, 12 Learn about life in the ghettos
• Feb 13 Research learn about the film The
  Pianist
• Feb 15, 18, 20 The Pianist
• Feb 21 Discuss film Quiz

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Video Clips

• Kristallnacht
• Survivor Testimony

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Homework

• Read Leni Hoffmans testimony attached
  Kristallnacht reading
• Answer the writing prompt on the back of the
  Kristallnacht definition.

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Hermann Goering

• WWI Pilot Hero
• Head of the SA
• Wounded in Beer Hall Putsch
• Addicted to Morphine

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Hermann Goering

• Created the Gestapo
• Created first concentration camp
• Ran the Night of the Long Knives
• Successor to AH
• Ordered the Final Solution

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Gestapo

• Geheime Staatspolizei
• Secret State Police
• Oppressed Germans who opposed Nazis
• Central role in Final Solution
• Above the Law

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Rhineland

• Buffer Zone between France Germany
• TOV Rhineland must not have any military
• France too politically unstable
• Great Britain Germany almost deserved to take it
  back

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Himmler and Terror

• Key questions
• How did Heinrich Himmler rise to power?
• What was the role of the SS-Gestapo?
• How omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent was
  the Gestapo?
• How important was terror to the Nazi regime?

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Rise to power within Nazi Party

• the most colourless personality in the Nazi
  inner circle
• a shrewd practitioner of power with an eye to
  the main chance
• more sinister than Hitler himself
• half crank, half schoolmaster
• 1918 Joined German army but failed to see any
  fighting.
• After the war, he became an agricultural student
  and briefly a poultry farmer in Bavaria before
  joining the NSDAP in 1923. He dreamt of a master
  race - an Aryan Herrenvolk personified by the
  early recruits of the SS.
• 1923 took part in the failed Munich Putsch.
• 1925 Joined SS Schutzstaffel. 120 men of
  absolute loyalty and obedience to Hitler. In
  1929, Himmler becomes commander of SS or
  Reichsführer-SS , but still a relatively small
  organisation with only 300 members.

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Growth of SS

• In 1930, Himmler appointed a young naval
  lieutenant, Reinhard Heydrich as head of a new
  intelligence unit of the SS, known as the SD.
• Heydrich was to become an important architect of
  he Holocaust he has been described as the
  blond beast, a young evil god of death and
  der Hanker (the hangman).
• Heydrich was intelligent, ruthlessly ambitious
  and in many respects the brains behind the later
  development of the SS.
• By 1931, the SS had grown into an organisation of
  10,000 men and by 1933 52,000 men.

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The SS-Gestapo

• March 1933 Himmler became President of Police in
  Munich and established a model camp in Dachau. He
  appointed Theodore Eicke to be the first
  commandant of the model camp. Later Eicke was to
  supervise the multiplying network of terror camps
  across Germany and Eastern Europe.

April 1933 Himmler became police commander for
the whole of Bavaria, the second largest German
state. April 1934 Himmler successfully exploited
a turf war between Goering, the effective head of
Prussia, and William Frick, Minister of the
Interior for the whole of Germany, to become head
of the Prussian Gestapo (Secret State Police).
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Heinrich Himmler1900-1945

• A man often seen as the very personification of
  evil. Heinrich Himmler was not only head of
  Hitler's SS police, but was also in charge of the
  death camps in the East.
• Although Adolf Hitler held the ultimate
  responsibility for what became the Holocaust, it
  was Heinrich Himmler who essentially laid the
  plans and devised the schemes that led to the
  killings of six million Jews.

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SS and SA

• The SS remained officially under control of the
  SA. Its absolute loyalty to the Fuhrer made it
  the natural choice to carry out the Night of the
  Long Knives. Himmler himself was a key figure in
  the Night of the Long Knives.
• He said later
• On 30th June 1934 we did not hesitate to do the
  duty laid down for us and put guilty friends up
  against the wall and shoot themwe didnt talk
  about it among ourselvesEach of us found it
  appalling yet we are all sure that if such orders
  were necessary again, we would carry them out as
  we did then.

In reward for its loyalty and brutal efficiency,
the SS became an independent organisation within
the party Himmer was in charge Reichfuhrer-SS
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The SS State

• In 1936 all police powers were unified under
  Himmlers control as Chief of German Police.
• Himmler was therefore in charge of a huge
  police-terror network.

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Reinhard Heydrich

• Reinhard Heydrich was one of Hitler's most
  ruthless Nazis and second in importance only to
  Heinrich Himmler in the Nazi SS organization and
  the principle planner of the Final Solution.
  There was even talk of his one day succeeding
  Adolf Hitler.

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