1. Bell Work:
Using your phone or a dictionary define the following terms:
Totalitarian
Dictator
Propaganda
Anit-seminitism

2. Totalitarian
controlling the people of a country in a very strict way with complete power that cannot be opposed

3. Dictator
a person who rules a country with total authority and often in a cruel or brutal way

4. Propaganda
ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.

5. Anti-semintism
hatred of Jewish people

6. Adolf Hitler b. April 20, 1889 d. April 30, 1945 Braunau, Austria
Parents: Alois and Klara

7. Adolf Hitler Close with his mom, didn’t get along with his dad
Trouble at school, expelled for constant skipping, only liked art
Wanted to be an artist, his dad wanted him to be a civil servant
Vienna Academy of Art
Interview, portfolio

8. Adolf Hitler
Great landscapes and technical drawings, but lacked the ability to draw the human figure well.
Hitler is encouraged to apply for architecture school, but rejected from the academy.

11. Hitler
Probably already anti-Semitic, but this may have been a turning point (majority of people on committee were Jews)
Flop house, street painter
Mother gets sick, dies from cancer before he can get home (mother’s dr was a Jew)

12. Hitler WWI breaks out; joins German army
Hitler was a runner; very dangerous
Wounded in a poison gas attack
Hospitalized; shocked to find out Germany has lost
Blamed Communists for Germany’s defeat --- Karl Marx – a German Jew

13. Hitler as a dispatch runner in WWI

14. Hitler’s Rise to Power
1919 – Hitler joins and becomes leader of the NAZI party – National Socialist German Workers
1923- Hitler announces the NAZIs will take over the government, arrested for treason
Sentenced to 7 years, but only serves 9 months
Writes Mein Kampf – My Struggle

16. Hitler named Chancellor
President Hindenberg names Hitler Chancellor in 1933 – pressured by NAZIs
Hindenberg dies in 1934
The Reichstag (Congress) turns over legislative power to Hitler.
Once in power, Hitler now creates a totalitarian state. Germany - dictatorship

17. The Third Reich
Hitler – popular, promised economic recovery and delivered. Massive public works program gave people jobs.
SS – Schutzstaffel- elite black-uniformed troops
Gestapo – secret police

18. The Holocaust Begins…
1933
23 March – Dachau opens – first concentration camp (and the largest) {Image shows Dachau being liberated by US troops.}

19. 1933
14 July – Law to Prevent Offspring with Hereditary Defects (T-2 Program)
Mental/physical handicaps
Milder cases – sterilized
More severe – euthanized
Propaganda – “life without existence”
Protests by mothers/women caused Hitler to mostly stop this program
All political parties outlawed except Nazi party

20. Nuremberg Laws - 1935 Jews are declared non-Germans; prohibited from:
Marrying/procreating with Germans
Attending/teaching at German schools
Holding govt. jobs
Practicing law or medicine
Publishing books
Many Jews fled (Albert Einstein)

21. Physical Traits of Aryans v. Jews
Ideal Aryan traits
Blue eyes, blond hair, light complexion, tall and athletic, angular features
Blue eyes were most important
Jewish traits
Brown eyes, dark hair, large forehead, rounded face, dark complexion

22. 1936
Jehovah’s Witnesses were rounded up (wouldn’t swear allegiance to Hitler)
1938
7 Nov – Grynszpan kills von Rath in Paris
Herschel Grynszpan (17 yrs old); in school in France
German Jew – found out that his family was being deported to Poland. Shoots the German ambassador to France – von Rath.
This event triggers worst violence yet back in Germany.

23. 1938 9-10 Nov – Kristallnacht – “night of broken glass”
Reaction to the killing of von Rath
Nazis attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in Germany
Jewish business owners had to pay for repairs; police looked the other way
Resistant Jews were sent to Dachau
Emigration increased, but most countries denied Jewish refugees.

25. 1939 1940 1 Sept – WWII begins when Germany invades Poland
27 April – Auschwitz opened
Highest # of deaths
Selection process; healthiest were chosen for work; the weak were gassed

26. 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union (USSR) Einsatzgruppen
Mobile killing units
Babi Yar – natural ravine
Lined victims up, shot them, and let them fall in
Probably killed over 30,000 here

28. Questions….. Comments………. Quiz – 20 Formative Assessment Points
Return of library research from Wednesday
Summative Assessment will be a combination of study on Holocaust, Crusades, and Spanish Inquistion