Great Depression Photos

Flapper – iconic 1920’s photos

Huge rallies were staged and broadcast via radio Hitler ordered all but the official Nazi radio transmission to be cancelled. There was no television, computer, cell phone or other electronic visual technology in the home. “We are yours” is depicted in the stadium. Huge rallies were staged and broadcast via radio

** “The Law for the protection of German blood and German honor” Nuremberg Laws (1935) ** Summarize from book and video ** “The Law for the protection of German blood and German honor” Kristallnacht. A synagogue burns in Siegen, Germany. - Nov. 9 – 10, 1938 ** Summarize from book and video

Forced Labor Camps Starting in 1938, private German citizens & the German government began exploiting Jewish citizens. Forced Labor!! More than 1 million Jewish men & women

1939 German soldiers brutalizing a Jew in the street.

** Why did the U.S. and other countries not allow more Jewish immigrants? St. Louis Affair, May 27, 1939

** Why did the U.S. and other countries not allow more Jewish immigrants? - Quotas - Denied anybody “likely to be a public charge …” - High unemployment rates - Existing anti-Semitism St. Louis Affair, May 27, 1939

German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact Molotov –Ribbentrop Pact Aug. 23, 1939 U.S.S.R. & Germany avoid war Hitler avoids two fronts Gives Stalin time to mobilize Russia & Germany divide Eastern Europe

Invasion of Poland Sept. 17 – Soviet Union attacks. Blitzkrieg … - September 1, 1939: called by Hitler the “1939 Defensive War” because “Germans in Poland are persecuted with a bloody terror … border violations … Poles no longer are willing to respect the German frontier.” Sept. 17 – Soviet Union attacks. Blitzkrieg … Consequence: official declarations of war.

“Generalplan Ost” - (1) Based upon the policy of Lebensraum … - (2) Extermination of Jews and Slavic peoples … - (3) And Hitler’s belief in “autarky,” a nation had to be complete self-sufficient …

“Generalplan Ost” Or “Master Plan East”

Ghettos - Beginning in 1939, Jewish quarters of cities where inhabitants were forced to live in close confines. - Miserable conditions … - Starting in 1943 the Ghettos were destroyed.

Operation Barbarossa Largest military operation, land invasion, and number of casualties in the history of warfare. (22 June – 5 December 1941) 4 million German soldiers invade Consequence: Opens up the Eastern Front

German Expansion Through Western Europe March, 1938 – Occupation of Austria Oct., 1938 – Occupation of Sudetenland March., 1939 – Occupation of rest of Czechoslovakia Sept. 1, 1939 – Invasion of Poland April 9, 1940 – Invasion of Denmark & Norway May, 1940 – Invasion of “Low Countries” June, 1940 – Invasion of France July-Oct., 1940 – Battle of Britain

(1) What caused the German people to trust and support Hitler? Video: “THE PATH TO NAZI GENOCIDE” (15:00 – 37:25) (1) What caused the German people to trust and support Hitler?    (2) Summarize the progression of Nazi persecution and murder towards Jewish peoples? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRcNq4OYTyE 26:00 to the end …

Humiliation, brutality, then murder… “You are ordered to kill Jews.”

Einsatzgruppen Four special military units that executed massacres …

March, 1941

A mass execution of Jews in Nazi occupied Soviet Union. [Einsatzgruppen detail]

Main entrance to Auschwitz “Work makes one free.” ** What was the purpose behind the “Final Solution?” - Nazi leadership were worried about the emotional turmoil mass shootings were having German soldiers - More “systematic way.” Main entrance to Auschwitz “Work makes one free.”