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
- 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
- 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”
-Furer is his title.
Propaganda- needed to be easy to understand because stupid people can uderstand it.
-Had Hitler, Swasntica, Anti- Jews, Army/ Military graphics
-Wanted people to join the military and be nationistic
-Joesph Goebbels- incharge of propaganda
The Holocaust
- Genocide- killing of people because of race.
- 6 million European Jews 2/3 of the Jews in Europe.
- 11-17 million people died total.
Who was killed?
- Jews- being rich/ controled banks
- Gypsies- travelers
- Mental/Physically handicapped people
- Soviet Slaves/POW's/Troops
- Poles- people from Polland
- Homosexuals
- Communists and Socailist
- Dark skinned people
- Mixed races- didnt want Germans being with others
- Jehovah's Witnesses
Aryan
- Misuesed by the Nazis to be called Master Race.
- Blond hair, blue eyed, tall, and muscular
- Lebensborn- growth of the Ayan race. Hitler wanted to have Aryan babies. Women volenteered because of health treatments and treated like royalty.
Holocuast
- 1933 "Temporarily" suspend rights for all citizens
- First consentration camps- 200 communists
- Took away rights and schooling and jobs
- 1935 Nuremburg Laws- took away German citizenship from Jews- second class citizens-
- 1-2 grandparents are jewish
- Jews could only marry Jew- no mixing
- 1936- Jewish owned buisness could not sell to Germans
- 1938- Kristallnacht- night of broken glass destroyed Jewish way of life. Killed 91 people
- Jewish children were kick out of school.
- Natis controlled Jewish buisnesses
- 1939- killing started metally/physicly hndicaped
- Jews required to wear yellow star arm bands or patches
- 1940- killing of the jews, Jews moved to ghettos, moved to Polland
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