Mein Kampf
My Struggle
Hate book...talks about aryan.
Hatred of Democracy...because of power to the people.
Undo the treaty of versilles...get all land germans lost
space in russia for german babies because germany is going to expand and there wont be enough room so they are going to go to russia.
"If, with the help of his Marxist creed, the Jew is victorious over the other peoples of the world, his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity and this planet will, as it did thousands of years ago, move through the either devoid of men."...means if we don't try to stop Jews or communist the world will go back to the dark ages.
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."...means god told him to.
"Here he stops at nothing, and in his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of teh devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew."...means the Jews are trying to dilute the Aryans
Nazi Propaganda
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it...Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."...Hitler
Can sway people...go after the poorer people or less smart...the rich/smarter people left the country
-Themes
Hilter
Some military people
Swastica- Nazi symbol
Anti-Jew
The Holocaust
6 million Jews died. (11-17 million people died)
Approx- two-thirds of population of nine million Jews, lived in europe before Holocaust
Also known as a Genocide- Holocaust main thing called
People Killed
Jews(6 mil)
Gypsies( 500,000 to 1.5 mil)
Soviet Slavs/ Pow's/Troops( 16.5 mil)
Poles(2.5 mil)
Homosexuals(5- 15 thousand)
Communists/ socialists(number not confirmed)
Dark skinned people- death and forced sterilizatons
Mixed races- " The mulatto children came about through rape of the white mother was a whore"-Hitler
Jehovah's Witnesses(2500-5000)
Ayran Race
misused term- so called master race
perfect aryan- blonde blue eyed tall and muscular
original term refers to people who speak with Indo-european dialect
Lebensborn- program aimed to promote superior Aryan Populations
provided excellent health care, living conditions, restricted to women and by restricting acess to those who deemed fit
Hitler's Jewish Question
What to do with the Jews?
1933- took away rights of Jews- job oppurtunity's and education
First concentration Camp Set up(Dachau)
1935- Nuremburg Laws
1. Took away citizenship - took away civil rights
2. Membership in Jewish race
considered any one with three to four grandparents
- eventually went to a least one Jewish grandparent
3. Jews could only marry Jews
4. No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews
1936- don't buy stuff from Jewish stores- drive them out business
1938- Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
destroying things
All Jewish Children expelled from schools
Nazis take control of Jewish owned businesses
1939- orders to murder mentally and physically disabled
Jews were required to wear armbands and Star of David( yellow star)
1940- begin to deporting German Jews to Poland
Jews forced into Ghettos
NAzis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland
1941- First mass massacre of Jews BAbi Yar 33,771 killed in two days
Death camps started showing up(Chelmno)
1942- Final Solution Announced
Death Camps showed up Majorly
( Auschwitl- Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec)
US, GB, SU- acknowledged the Germans were exterminating Jews
1943- Jews resist Nazis held out for nearly a month Nazis put down uprising
Russia/Soviet Union/USSR
Russia dropped out of WW I due to the Bolshevik Revolution
Economically, it was in terrible shape
Vladimir Ulyanov(Lenin)
Lenin emerged as the leader of the communists.
Lenin was a big Marxist supporter
-Marx never outlined how exactly to reach a classless society so Lenin and the government took control of the economy and farms with a promise to eventually give it back to the peasants.
Lenin organized the country into a federation of republics
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Lenin died in 1924
Power struggled ensued between Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin.
Stalin would win.
Josef Stalin
Wanted to focus on building up the Soviet Union’s economy
Eliminated political opponents in great purges(800,000)
Wanted nationalization and collectivization of the economy
-gov’t took control of industry(nationalization)
-abolished private ownership(upset Kulaks)
-forced peasants to merge their land into large collective farms(collectivization)
The Kulaks resisted and Stalin used the secret police to kill them
Stalin admitted that at least 10 million people died due to collectivization and famine
Five Year Plans
-Stalin’s idea of economic growth for industry and agriculture
-Goals were to be met in a five year time frame
-Wasn’t until the third 5 Year Plan did the economy start to improve
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