While in prison he wrote his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
- Outlined Hitler’s ideas:
- Aryans were the superior race
- Germans, Dutch, Belgians, Scandinavians and English
- No interbreeding
- Anti-Semitic beliefs
- Hated Jews, inferior race
- Hitler associated them with the Weimer Republic and Communism
- Hated democracy
- Believed one person had to have the power to keep order and Discipline
- Undo the Treaty of Versailles
- Re-unite German speaking people
- Austria, Sudetenland, Danzig, Poland
- Lebensraum
- “Living space” in Russia for the German People
- Aryans were the superior race
- Hitler also learned that he would have to come to power legally
- January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany
- Within 18 months Hitler had total power and created “The Third Reich”
- In Gernamy you would see hitler every where, posters of "monster jews", he was on posters, tv, newspaper; Propaganda of him, made him look like a god, he was pictured with kids to make him look like he cared
- The holocaust
- The genocide of approximatly 6 million european jews during WWII
- a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by nazi germany throughout nazi-occupied territory
- approximatlely 2/3 of the pop. of 9 million jews were killed
- Total: between 11 and 17 million people died
- who was all killed?
- Jews (6 million)
- Gypsies ( 500,000 to 1.5 million)
- Mentally/physically handicapped people (75,000 to 250,000)
- Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops (16.5 million)
- Poles (2.6 million)
- Homos (5-15 thousand)
- Communists/sociaalists (a lot but no # exact)
- Dark skinned people (no #)
- Mixed races (no #)
- Jehovah's Witmesses (2,500-5,000) - religious group
- Aryan Race
- misused by the Nazis to mean so-called master race that originated around germany
- perfect Aryan was blonde haired, blue-eyed, tall and muscular
- original term refers to a people speaking a Indo-European dialect
- some countries hitler believed that they should be from: Germany, denmark, norway, sweden, luxenburg
- Lebensborn-Fount of Life
- the program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan pop. by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women and by restricting access to those deemed "fit"
- houses were set up throughtout Germany and many occupied territories
- Many Lebensborn children were born to unwed mothers which helped lead to many rumors to rape
- women were not forced to do this
- Hitler's Jewish Question 1933
- Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933-Never restored
- The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachu in 1933. The first inmates were 200 communists
- Jews are prohibited from working as civil servents, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools. All but fes Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges
- Nuremburg Laws 1935
- took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights
- established membership in the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had 3 or 4 Jewish grandparent. People with 1 or 2 Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed race
- eventually anyone with at least one jewish grandparent was at risk in nazi Germany
- Jews could only marry Jews
- No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
- 1936
- Navis boycott Jewish-owned businesses
- 1938-Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass)
- On the nights of nov. 9 and 10 gangs of nazi youth roamed through jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting
- in all 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 jewish business destrooyed, 26,000 were arested and sent to concentration camp
- all jewish children are expelled for public schools in Gemany and Austria
- 1939
- Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically dicabled in Germany and Austria
- Jews are required to wear armbands or yellow star
- 1940
- nazis began deporting German Jews to Poland
- Jews are forced into ghettos
- nazzis begin the 1st mass murder of jews
- 1941
- jews throughout Eatern Europe are forced into ghettos
- 2 days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar
- 1942
- Nazi officals announce "Final solution"-plan to kill all European Jews
- 5 death camps set up- Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
- US, GB, SU find out about the final solution
- 1943
- Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist ar the Mazis begin new rounds of deportations. These Jews hold out for mearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising
- 1944
- Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auscheitz
- 1945
- Hitler is defeated and WWII ends in europe
- the holocaust in over and the death camps are emptied
- Many survivors are place in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept
- 1947
- The Untied Mation establishes a Jewish homeland in British- controlled Palestine which becaomes the State of Israel in 1948
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