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Germany & Adolf Hitler
September 13, 2010
• WWI: “War to End All Wars”…Yeah
Right
– 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
• Fascist
– Italy
– Private property OK
– All efforts/ resources to glorify country
– If country great/ people are great
• Nazi
– Like fascism, but ONE DIFFERENCE
• RACE
• Military Dictatorship
– Japan
– Group of military dictators make rules
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After WWI…
• Germany a democracy
– Economic troubles
– HIGH inflation
– Then…Great Depression
•
Anti-Democratic Parties
– 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 (extremely anti-semetic)
• Blueprint of his hatreds & plans for
world domination
1. Unemployment
2. Homelessness
3. Hunger
RISE IN NAZI PARTY
• By 1933: NAZI Party VERY powerful
– President makes Hitler Chancellor of Germany
• 1935: Hitler makes self Chancellor & President of Germany
– Ruled WITHOUT Reichstag (Parliament)
• Hitler promises Germans that Germany will be GREAT AGAIN
• Hitler immediately
– Rearms & expand Germany
• Against League of Nations
– Rebuilds Infrastructure (Roads/ Highways/ etc.)
– ENDS DEPRESSION
• Germans LOVE Hitler
– Jobs, $$$, cars
– 1936: Olympics in Berlin
• Jesse Owens crushes Aryan myth
– Brainwashed/ Propaganda
• Control press/ Hitler Youth
– Terrify into Silence/ Secret Police
• 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)