1. Instructions:
In your group, read through the powerpoint slides and fill in your note sheets
When completed answer the 5 questions on the last slide on the back side of your notes
When completed ask Ms. Saggio for an extra credit opportunity!

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The Rise of Hitler

3. Remember Fascism? Anti-Semitism
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“Nazism is Fascism, only with an Anti-Semitic twist
Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitic, or Anti-Semitism:
suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic or racial group

4. Germany in the 1920’s High unemployment rate & Hyper-Inflation
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High unemployment rate & Hyper-Inflation
1918 Germany was a republic known as Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic was not popular with the German people
It was hated because it signed the Treaty of Versailles
People saw the Weimar Republic as traitors

5. Hitler, Leader of the Nazi Party
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Joined the National Socialist German Workers’ Party: (Nazi Party)
Copied many ideas of the Fascist Party
1921 Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party

6. Hitler, Leader of the Nazi Party
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Adopt the swastika to tie his ideas to the past and the occult
Established the SA or Brown Shirts
Nazis that supported Hitler

7. Coup d’etat: A revolution to try and take over the government
Beer Hall Putsch of 1923
In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état in Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch.
Hitler sent to prison
There he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle).
Hitler
Coup d’etat: A revolution to try and take over the government

8. Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
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Book that set forth Hitler’s beliefs and goals:
Racial Purity
Aryans = “master race” those of Germanic decent, blond hair and blue eyes
Non-Aryans = “inferior or subhuman races,” Jews, Slavs and Gypsies

9. Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
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Denouncement of the Treaty of Versailles
Lebensraum:
“living space” Hitler called for an invasion of Russia to allow the German race to grow
The twin evils:
Communism and Judaism, his aim was to eradicate both from the face of the earth

10. Hitler’s Rise to Power
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1933, To increase the number of Nazis serving in the Parliament, Hitler calls a new election.
Six days before the elections the Reichstag (House of Parliament) is set on fire

11. Hitler’s Rise to Power
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The Nazis blame the communists and win a slim majority in Parliament
Enabling Act 1933
With a majority, Hitler asks to be given total control of the legislative power for 4 years only

12. Hitler’s policies
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Banned opposition parties and arrested opposition leaders
Created the SS (Hitler’s guards) led by Heinrich Himmler, who arrested and murdered hundreds

13. Hitler’s Politics Night of the Long Knives
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Hitler’s Politics
Night of the Long Knives
Hitler ordered the killing of many Brown Shirts leaders in order to keep the SA in line
Gestapo: secret police that used brutality and terror to keep everyone in line

14. Hitler’s Economics Banned Strikes and dissolved labor unions
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Banned Strikes and dissolved labor unions
Government took control over businesses
Started many government jobs that put millions to work building public works

15. Hitler’s Social Rules
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Propaganda: found in the Press, Radio, Literature, Paintings and Films
Book Burning, great classics were burned because they did not agree with Hitler’s ideas

16. Hitler’s Social Rules Hitler Youth (boys) and League of German Girls
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Hitler Youth (boys) and League of German Girls
Taught violence and struggle as part of life (Social Darwinism)

17. Hitler’s Youth By 1938, military training was routine
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Hitler’s Youth
By 1938, military training was routine
Girls were in the female division, known as the League of German Girls
Had uniforms
Also camped and hiked
Taught domestic skills
Women were expected to be faithful wives and dutiful mothers

18. Blame the Jew! Nuremberg Laws, 1933
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Blamed Jews for all of Germany’s problems
Jews made up 1% of Pop. in Germany
Nuremberg Laws, 1933
Denied Jews the right to vote
Ban against mixed marriages
Kicked out of professional jobs

19. Blame the Jew! Kristallnacht: Boycott of all Jewish business
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Kristallnacht: Boycott of all Jewish business
Nov , Night of the Broken Glass,
Nazi mobs destroy thousands of Jewish homes and shops

20. QUESTIONS TO ANSWER What is the Mein Kampf and the Gestapo?
Why was the Weimar Republic unpopular with the German people
Describe Hitler's social rules for the youth, both girls and boys.
Explain some of Hitler’s economic ideas.
What were the Nuremberg Laws?

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Quick Write: Please read the quotes and guess whether it was Hitler that said it, or Kanye West
When a man is starving in the streets, he's not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne.“
"I stand here as a revolutionary. It is as a revolutionary against the revolution."
"I might have to go back to war. I just might have to."
"Nothing in life is promised except death."
"I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade. That I will be the loudest voice."
"Who says I am not under the special protection of God?"
"I could design something for Obama to go to the club in."
Hitler said it
Hitler said it
Kanye said it
Kanye said it
Kanye said it
Hitler said it
Hitler said it