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Adolf Hitler
- born in 1889 in Austria
- dropped out of school at 16
- wanted to be and artist and architect
- failed to get into art school
- moved to Germany in 1913
- joined German Army when WWI broke out
- was wounded twice (once by gas)
- won numerous medals
- accepted the “stab in the back” theory- Weimer Republic accecpted Treaty of Versailles.
- hated Weimer Republic
- joined the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi) after WWI
- voted Fuhrer (Leader) of the Nazi Party in 1921
- Nazi party attracted the following groups of people:
1. Manual laborers- jobs and maybe better pay.
2. Former soldiers- militaristic talk Hitler had
3. Adventurers and misfits- Nazi welcomed them and gave them power, a voice, and they felt like they belonged.
- The Nazi Party:
1. was violently nationalistic- love country so much that you will kill people who aren't of your country
2. was anti-Semitic (anti-Jew)
3. Hated the democratic Weimer Republic- blamed them for signing Treaty.
4. talked of the Volk (German common people) superiority- ayran race, came out of forest and were enlightened.
Beer Hall Putsch (1923)- Hitler got a lot of followers through beer halls by talking politics- tried to over through Weimer Republic, got put in jail. Sentenced to 5 years, only served 5 months, Hitler told people what they wanted to hear.
- Hitler and the Nazis tried to take over the German Gov’t
- Failed miserably
- Hitler was arrested for treason
- Got five years but only served 9 months
- While in prison he wrote his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
- Outlined Hitler’s ideas:
1. Aryans were the superior race
- Germans, Dutch, Belgians, Scandinavians and English
- No interbreeding
2. Anti-Semitic beliefs
- Hated Jews, inferior race- believed they wanted to take over the world and dilute the aryan race
- Hitler associated them with the Weimer Republic and communism
3. Hated democracy
- Believed one person had to have the power to keep order and discipline
4. Undo the Treaty of Versailles
5. Re-unite German speaking peoples
- Austria, Sudetenland, Danzig, Poland
6. Lebensraum
- “Living space” in Russia for the German People
long term goal- beleif that Germany's population would increase, wanted to move into Russia.
- Hitler also learned that he would have to come to power legally
Loses to Paul Hindenburg, then the depression set in, Hitler makes big promises and Nazis become popular.
- January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany
Propaganda- Hitler, anti Jew, Swastica, and military.
SS- secret military of Germany, ran concentration camps.
Joesph Gubbles- highest of Nazis, control propaganda.
- Within 18 months Hitler had total power and created “The Third Reich”
Holocaust- genocide of about 6 millions European Jews, genocide- organized way of killing and it is aimed at a certain race or belief.
*holocaust: who was killin in the holocaust
- 6 millon dead Jew's
- Gypsies (500,000 to 1.5 millon
- mentally handicaped
-soviet slaves(POW)/ troops- 16.5 millon
poles- 2.5 million
-homosexuals 5-15 thousand
-dark skinned people
-mixed race
Aryan race
-misused by the nazis to mean a so-called master race that orignated around germany
blonde- blue eyed- tall -musclur
lebensborn-fount of life
houses throught out germany, woman blonde hair blue eyed would get with germeny, that they would have kids blueeyes - blonde hair.. people would say rape but girls really wanted to do it because there kid would be taken good care of and so would they
hitler jewish
- nazis temporarily suspend civil liberrites for all citzens- 1933 never restored
- set up the first concentrartion camp at dachau in 1933 the first inmates are 200 communists
- jews are prohibited from working civil servants, doctors in the national health service and teacher in public high schools. all but few hewish students are banned in publi
nureburd laws 1935
- took away german citizenship from jews thus making jews second class citzenship bu removing their basic civil rights
- membership in the jewish race are being anyone who either considered themselves jewish or had three or four jewish grandparents. people with one or two jewish grandparents concitered mixed race
- jews could only marry jews
- no sexual relations between non -jewish germans and jews
1936
- naxis boycott jewish- owned businesses
kristallnacht-1938
on the night of nov 9 and 10 1938 gangs of nazi youth roamed throug jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of jews bussiness and homes buring churches
1938 cont
- all jew childeren are expelled from public schools in germany and austia
1939
hitler orders the systatic muders of mentally and physicall disabled in germany and austia
-jews are required to wear aremanded and yeallow stars
1940
- nazis begain deporting germ to jews ro poland
- jews are forced into gettons
- nazis begin the first mass murder of jeews in poland
1941
Jews throughout eastern europe are forced into gettos
-in two days germans units shoot 33,771 ukriaiian jews - largest sign massacre of holocaust
-death camp at chelmno in poland beings murdingin jews
1942
- nazi offcials annocounce final soulution plan to kill all europe jews
five death camps begin preration polan, majdanek, sobibor, trebilka, belzec and ausxhwits
- gettos of eatern
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