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Fear and Hatred
Apathy and Indifference
World War I
The War to End All Wars
World War I
and the Treaty of Versailles
• 1918 Treaty of Versailles
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Returned land won by Germany
Pay war costs and damage
Limited military
Germany admit guilt
Demoralized Germany
• Fighting political parties
• Inflation
• Legend grew
– WW I not lost on the battlefield
– Germany “stabbed in the back by evil forces”
Rise of Hitler
• Hitler did not accept
Germany’s loss of the war
• Became a national speaker
• Leader of the National Socialist
German Workers’ Party = Nazi
• 1923: Attempt to take over
government failed
Hitler in Prison
• Wrote Mein Kampf (My
Struggle)
– Reunite people of the same
blood
– Aim to “eradicate this alien
race”
Great Depression
• 1929: World Wide Depression
– Stock market crashed
– Large-scaled unemployment
– Businesses close
Hitler’s Reign Begins
• January 10, 1933 - Chancellor of Germany
– Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in power
– Nazi slogan: One People, One Government
Reichstag Burnt
• German legislative building
burned
– Ordered by Goebbels, Hitler’s
propaganda minister
– Communists were blamed
• President Hindenburg declared
emergency decree that suspended
all civil rights
– Anyone suspicious now could be
arrested
Hitler Gains Control
• Abolishes all political parties
• Abolishes all trade unions
– Workers wages decrease
– business profits increase
• Total control over media
Nazi Party
• Demanded blind discipline
• Nazi party membership essential
– Nazi spy on every block
– Children main target because responded most
quickly
– Most children joined the “Hitler Youth” and
were essentially groomed to be military leaders
and ‘ideal’ German citizens
March 22, 1933 - Dachau
Concentration Camp opens
• Opened with 200 Communists
April l, 1933
• Boycott of all Jewish Businesses
May 10, 1933
• Burning of any democratic literature
A.K.A. book burning
1933
• Removed German citizenship from Jewish
immigrants
• “Law for the Prevention of Hereditary
Diseased Offspring
– Legalized sterilization
1935
Nuremberg Laws
Anti-Jewish racial laws enacted
• Jews no longer considered German citizens
• Jews could not marry Aryans
• Could not fly German flag
November 9, 1938
Kristallnacht
“Night of Broken Glass”
• Nazis soldiers in plain clothes looted
and destroyed Jewish homes,
businesses, and synagogues
 200 synagogues destroyed
 7,500 Jewish shops looted
 30,000 male Jews sent
concentration camps
•November 12, 1938
– All Jews transfer businesses to Aryan hands
• November 15, 1938
– All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools
• December 12, 1938
– German Jews fined one billion marks for the
destruction of property during Kristallnacht
September 1, 1939
• Germany invades Poland
• World War II begins
Hitler’s Plan
• To unit all German people
• To clean Europe of all undesirable people -the Final Solution
Why Were Jews the Target?
Global Beliefs
Eugenics
• A world-wide philosophy
• Survival of the fittest
• A nation of only the strong, healthy people
• Lead to the legislation ordering sterilization
and euthanasia of physically and mentally
disabled, and of racially inferior
Some Global Beliefs…
Antisemitism
• Definition: prejudice or hatred of Jews
• Historic pogroms of state sponsored violence
against the Jews
• “Christ Killers”
• Money changers
• Falsely accused of being disloyal citizens
• eg. Blamed for Germany’s loss of WW I
"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have
usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it
was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies
with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership
of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then
among other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was
uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing
on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: if the
international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in
plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not
be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the
annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!"
Adolf Hitler - January 30, 1939