Hitler’s Germany

Hitler Creates a Totalitarian State By…

Terror Secret police: The Gestapo

Purges 1934: “Night of the Long Knives.”

Concentration camps Dachau: one of the earliest camps; est. 1933

Estimated Numbers In Concentration Camps Year Numbers Deaths 1933 50,000 6,250 1934 56,250 7,300 1935 65,850 7,900 1936 71,150 8,500 1937 76,850 9,200 1938 83,050 33,200 1939 132,900 66,450

Brainwashing the Youth

Hitler Youth Age Boys Girls 6-10 Pimpefen ( Little Fellows) 10-14 Deutsches Jungvolk (Young People) Jungmadel (Young Girls) 14-18 Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German Girls)

Membership Totals Year HJ DJ BDM JM Total 1932 55,365 28,691 19,244 4,656 107,956 1933 568,288 1,130,021 243,750 349,482 2,292,041 1934 786,000 1,457,304 471,944 862,317 3,577,565 1935 829,361 1,498,209 569,599 1,046,134 3,943,303 1936 1,168,734 1,785,424 873,127 1,610,316 5,437,601 1937 1,237,078 1,884,883 1,035,804 1,722,190 5,879,955 1938 1,663,305 2,604,538 1,448,264 1,855,119 7,031,226 1939 1,723,886 2,137,594 1,502,571 1,923,419 7,287,470

Education! “The chief purpose of the school is to train human beings to realize that the State is more important than the individual, that individuals must be willing and ready to sacrifice themselves for Nation and Fuhrer” - Berhard Rust, Nazi Education Minister

National Socialist Teachers’ League 1937: 97% teachers belong

“The Jewish Nose is Wide at the End and Looks like the Number Six”

Curriculum Altered… “A bomber aircraft on take-off carries 12 dozen bombs, each weighing 10 kilos. The aircraft takes off for Warsaw the international centre for Jewry. It bombs the town. On take-off with all bombs on board and a fuel tank containing 100 kilos of fuel, the aircraft weighed about 8 tons. When it returns from the crusade, there are still 230 kilos left. What is the weight of the aircraft when empty ?"

"To keep a mentally ill person costs approximately 4 marks a day "To keep a mentally ill person costs approximately 4 marks a day. There are 300,000 mentally ill people in care. How much do these people cost to keep in total? How many marriage loans of 1000 marks could be granted with this money?"

Propaganda! - Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda - Joseph Goebbels: Reichsminister for Propaganda and National Enlightenment Goebbels: “It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.”

Written Censorship Banning of books

Mein Kampf (1924) Hitler’s manifesto Outlines Hitler’s key ideas: Anti-Semitism Superiority of German Race Fuhrerprinzip Lebensraum

Der Sturmer Nazi newspaper published from @ 1923 Julius Streicher: publisher

SONG Horst Wessel Song The flag on high! The ranks tightly closed! The SA march with quiet, steady step. Comrades shot by the Red Front and reactionaries March in spirit within our ranks. Clear the streets for the brown battalions, Clear the streets for the storm division! Millions are looking upon the swastika full of hope, The day of freedom and of bread dawns! For the last time, the call to arms is sounded! For the fight, we all stand prepared! Already Hitler's banners fly over all streets. The time of bondage will last but a little while now! Soon Hitler's banners will fly over all streets. The time of bondage will last but a little while now. Comrades shot by the Red Front and reactionaries, SONG Horst Wessel Song

Film “Triumph of the Will” (1935)

“Hitler Youth Quex” (1933)

Art

“German soil” Werner Peiner

“The Fuhrer Speaks” Paul Mathias Padua

“In the Beginning there was the Word”

“Watersport” Albert Janesch, 1936

“Der Bannertrager” Hubert Lanzinger, 1938

Rebuild Berlin Into “Germania”

People’s Hall Would hold 180,000 dome alone: 300 m high, 250 m in diameter

Cult of Personality

“Germany is free!”

“Be true to the Fuhrer” “One people, one Reich, one Fuhrer”