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Germany & Adolf Hitler
October 5, 2009
“War to End All Wars”…Yeah Right
• Recap
– 1918: WWI ends
– 1919: Treaty of Versailles
(Ver-sigh)
• Britain, France, & U.S. decide
EVERYTHING
– Germany
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Admit total guilt
Pay for war
No military
Lose land
– Italy & Japan (allies)
• Thought they’d get more land
– “War to End all Wars” left
bitterness, anger, & revenge
• WWI + Great Depression =
– Dictatorships in Germany, Italy,
Japan, & Russia
• Totalitarian State
– Gov’t in which one party/ leader
controls EVERYTHING
– Strong, charismatic leader often at
head of gov’t
– Gov’t controls economy
– Police, spies, & terror to enforce
– Gov’t controls media/ propaganda
– Use of schools/ youth
organizations to spread ideology
to chilren
– Censor intellectuals/ political rivals
Communist…Fascist…Nazi…
What’s the Difference???
• Communist
– Russia
– Classless society (No rich/ No poor)
– Gov’t owns EVERYTHING
• Military Dictatorship
– Japan
– Group of military dictators make rules
• Fascist
– Italy
– All efforts/ resources to glorify country
– If country great/ people are great
• Nazi
– Like fascism, but ONE DIFFERENCE
• RACE
PRIVATE
PROPERTY
OK
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After WWI
– Germany a democracy
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Economic troubles
HIGH inflation
Great Depression
– Anti-Democratic Parties
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National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI)
– Not socialist
– Opposed socialism/ communism
1. All about promoting GERMANY
– Nothing more important than the country
2. Supreme Race - Aryan
• Leader of the NAZI Party - Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler Bio
• Born in Austria
• Dropped out of high school at age
16
• Rejected TWICE from Academy of
Art school
• Lived on streets
• Painted post cards
• GREAT speaker
– Speeches against Jews in male
homeless shelters
• Moved to Munich right before WWI
– Joined German Army
– Won Iron Cross
• WWI ends
– Hitler bitter/ angry
• Head of NAZI Party
• Rebellion to overthrow gov’t
– Arrested
– Writes Mein Kampf (My
Struggle)
• Explanations for problems of
Germany
• Anti-Semetic - prejudice against
Jewish
• Blueprint of his hatreds & plans
for world domination
• Unemployment
• Homelessness
• Hunger
RISE IN NAZI PARTY
• 1933: NAZI Party Powerful
• President makes Hitler Chancellor of Germany
• 1935: Hitler makes self President & Chancellor
• Ruled without Parliament (Reichstag)
• HITLER promises Germany will RISE AGAIN
• Immediately
– Rearms & expand Germany
• Against League of Nations
– Rebuild Infrastructure (Roads/
Highways/ etc.)
– ENDS DEPRESSION
• Germans LOVE Hitler
– Jobs
– $$$
– 1936: Olympics in Berlin
• Jesse Owens crushes Aryan myth
– Brainwashed/ Propaganda
– Terrify into Silence
• Germany is a well oiled machine
– Secret Police crushed all opposition
– State controlled press
• Praised accomplishments
– State controlled education system
• Nazi Youth Organizations
• Hitler on war
– “Victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the
truth or not…It is not RIGHT that matters, but
VICTORY”
– “Eighty million Germans must obtain what is THEIR
right. Their existence must be made secure. The
STRONGER man is right” (1939)