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Jan 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed
Chancellor of Germany a nation with a
Jewish population of 566,000.
Feb 27, 1933 - Nazis burn Reichstag
building to create crisis atmosphere.
Feb 28, 1933 - Emergency powers
granted to Hitler as a result of the
Reichstag fire.
March 22, 1933 - Nazis open Dachau
concentration camp near Munich.
March 24, 1933 - German Parliament
passes Enabling Act giving Hitler
dictatorial powers.
April 1, 1933 - Nazis stage boycott of
Jewish shops and businesses.
April 11, 1933 - Nazis issue a decree
defining a non-Aryan as "anyone
descended from non-Aryan, especially
Jewish, parents or grandparents.
July 14, 1933 - Nazi Party is declared
the only legal party in Germany
June 30, 1934 - The Night of Long
Knives occurs as Hitler, Göring and
Himmler conduct a purge of the SA
(storm trooper) leadership.
Aug 2, 1934 - German President von
Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
June 26, 1935 - Nazis pass law allowing
forced abortions on women to prevent
them from passing on hereditary
diseases.
Sept 15, 1935 - Nuremberg Race Laws
against Jews decreed.
Aug 1, 1936 - Olympic games begin in
Berlin. Hitler and top Nazis seek to gain
legitimacy through favorable public
opinion from foreign visitors and thus
temporarily refrain from actions against
Jews.
March 12/13, 1938 - Hitler announces
Anschluss (union) with Austria.
Nov 9/10 - Kristallnacht - The Night of
Broken Glass.
Sept 3, 1939 - England and France
declare war on Germany.
June 22, 1940 - France signs an
armistice with Hitler.
In Jan - Mass killings of Jews using
Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau
April 30, 1945 - Hitler commits suicide
in his Berlin bunker.
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…I was 13 when I was picked, one of five
out of 50 kids in my school, to attend a
Nazi development camp for the Future
Little Elite. One kid brought a condom.
He blew it up to make it a balloon. We
opened the window and threw it out. A
Nazi youth leader found it. He knew our
room was where it came from. He lined
us up and grilled each of us really hard.
But we showed solidarity; we did not
reveal who did it. They really liked that.
That’s what they wanted. They weren’t
interested in morality or social
behavior. They wanted us to show
solidarity about this rogue act. The
message was, “You can do what you
want, you can let your teenage violent
impulses out, it doesn’t matter, as long
as you do it for us.”…
Frederic C. Tubach from
German Voices: Memories of Life
During Hitler’s Third Reich
Stürmer"-newspaper on display in
most German cities after 1933.
Large headline: "With the Stürmer
against Jews", smaller headline
"The Jews are our disaster".
“It was many, many such stories synagogues burned, Jews beaten with
no reason, whole towns pushing out all
Jews - each story worse than the
other.”
- Art Spiegelman from Maus: A
Survivor's Tale
…” I realized that this cat-mouse
metaphor of oppression could actually
apply to my more immediate
experience. This development took me
by surprise—my own childhood was
not a subject for me.”…
- Art Spiegelman from The New York
Review of Books)
1936
Suspendiss
e potenti.
The Berliners are almost unconditionally in
love with their leader: the country is again
opening military factories, the unemployed
decreased. Propaganda of healthy life style and
sport is everywhere. Almost every day there are
competitions, parades and demonstrations
together with modern aircraft of the Luftwaffe
shows in the sky.
“Such optimism was not misplaced. In the
spring of 1939 Hitler’s Germany was at the
very peak of its power.[…] Greater
Germany, therefore, was a reality and –
crucially for the German public – it was at
peace.” (Roger Moorhouse, ‘Berlin at war’)
“At headquarters, where everyone lived
under the tremendous pressure of
responsibility, probably nothing was more
welcome than a dictate from above. That
meant being freed of a decision and
simultaneously being provided with an
excuse for failure.”
― Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich
“Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!”
The truth behind everyday life in Germany was the the fear of
the Gestapo, the fear of getting into the concentration camps,
the fear of speech, the fear of self expression and having
opinion, the fear of being a Jew.
At first the Nazi terror was supported by the majority of
Germans although at that point they were already victims of
intimidation and harassment. In some ways, the Nazi regime
Hitler’s Youth
Was there a moment when you realized what was really
happening in Germany?
“I was 15 years of age, so you don’t think that much about
it. I think my parents knew what was happening. But
everyone was afraid to say something. It’s just like laws
were so strict. If you would have been in the German army
and you wife sent you a package of cigarettes or a
package of cookies and I had been the mail carrier and I
stole it, well the penalty was death. And it wasn’t six
months or six years from now it was the next day. You
were gone. And there’s nothing else. Everyone was afraid
to say anything. Also you didn’t know if your neighbor
was against Hitler or for Hitler. You didn’t know
that. You could not listen to foreign broadcasts. A
neighbor got caught, a good friend of ours, you know it’s
a small village. And he got caught listening to foreign
broadcasts. And they took him and he was gone for six
months and he never would tell my dad what happened,
really. It was that strict.”- Interview with Hans Neumann
(http://kbia.org/post/hans-neumann-recalls-days-hitler-youth#stream/0)
“A ‘Hitler myth’ was cultivated
which built on people’s desire
for strong leadership, and
presented Hitler as an almost
God-like figure. Hitler’s image
was laboured over in a manner
not dissimilar to that of pop stars
today. What he wore, what he
said, what postures he adopted
during speeches were all worked
out carefully… Many people
began to separate Hitler from the
Nazi Party, enabling Hitler’s
popularity to remain high whilst
the popularity of the Nazi Party
fell.”
Alison Kitson, historian