1. How were the aggression policies heightened in the year 1938?
By: Lindsey Peterson & Keri Rogan

2. The Anschluss-German Annexation of Austria
What did it mean for Austrian Jews?
They became victims of anti-Semitism
Didn’t have many options to help themselves
Why was it successful?
Most Austrians did not oppose the invasion
Anti-Semitism within Austria was heightened
Gave Austrian gentiles the opportunity to turn against their Jewish neighbors
Many European and international powers did not try to stop Germany

3. The Sudetenland Crisis
Why did Hitler target the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia?
First target of his planned expansion
Ethnic German minority used to generate a crisis
What was the crisis?
Nazis from Germany encouraged Ethnic Germans to express their discontent
Hitler planned to rescue the ethnic Germans
Czechs mobilized their forces and asked the British and French for help
At the Munich Conference, it was decided that Czechoslovakia should cede the Sudetenland to Germany because it contained a substantial ethnic German population

4. The Sudetenland Crisis
Did failure at Munich cause the second world war?
A harder line from Chamberlain, an “appeaser”’,would have melted Nazi aggression?
Hitler was set on war
He felt cheated with a negotiated settlement giving Germany control of the Sudetenland
In 1939, German troops entered the rest of Czechoslovakia and on Hitler’s demand the state was dismembered
With the destruction of Czechoslovakia, Germany attained lands it never controlled before
Hitler was not satisfied
Ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland greeting Hitler as he crossed the border

5. Kristallnacht “The Night of Broken Glass”
Where did this pogram get it’s name?
Thousands of Jewish synagogues and homes were damaged or destroyed
Windows of Jewish businesses were smashed
What were the reasons?
Herschel Grynszpan shot a German official-good excuse for assaulting the Jews
To show their hatred of the Jews
Nazis thought it would correct the economic injustices in Germany
An essential step to prepare for a profitable war

6. Kristallnacht “The Night of Broken Glass”
Germans response?
Many civilians joined in
Others disapproved it
Some Germans thought the pogram was disruptive, and it made too big of a mess
Jews response?
Approximately three hundred thousand Jews left Germany and went to other countries (Poland, the Netherlands and France)

7. The Expansion of the Concentration Camp System
How did Kristallnacht lead to the expansion of the camps?
Nazi authorities sent 26 thousand men into concentration camps and killed another 100
The men from the Kristallnacht pogram were the first German Jews arrested only for being Jewish
Buchenwald-Jews arrested at
Kristallnacht line up for role call

8. Dachau concentration camp
The Expansion of the
Concentration Camp
System
How did the camps reflect the regime’s ideological goals?
A place to put “troublemakers” and rejuvenation of law and order
Centralization of power under the nazis did not lessen the pain and suffering of its targets
Routinization-authorities were more aggressive/”gung ho” with their arrests
Dachau concentration camp