One Man

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One Mans Patriot is Another Mans Terrorist.
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Young Adolf

• Austria
• Poor student
• Artist
• Rejected twice from The Viennese School of Art

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The Great War

• Corporal
• Escaped Death at Ypres
• Dispatch Runner
• Sketched/Painted WWI scenes

• Wounded in leg at the Somme
• Temporarily blinded by chlorine gas at Ypres

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Appalled at German Apathy and Anti-War Sentiment

• Sight-seeing in Munich while recovering
• Blamed Jews
• Anti-war conspiracy involving Jews became
  obsession
• invisible foes of the German people
• stabbed in the back

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Weimar Republic

• Weak fledgling democracy
• Signed Treaty of Versailles
• Run-Away Inflation
• Devaluation of Mark

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Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)Remember, It Is Just
a Piece of Paper
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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

• Nazi
• Romanticism, Idealism, Fascism
• Nietzsches concepts of breeding upwards
  Social Darwinism
• Nationalism (Fichte Bismarck)
• Upper Middle Class support
• Swastika
• Storm Troopers/Brownshirts

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Putsch! (1923)
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Mein Kampf
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Great Depression
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Impact of the Great Depression
Nazi Party Election Results Nazi Party Election Results Nazi Party Election Results Nazi Party Election Results Nazi Party Election Results
Date Votes Percentage Seats in Reichstag Background
May '24 1,918,300 6.5 32 Hitler in prison
Dec '24 907,300 3 14 Hitler is released from prison
May '28 810,100 2.6 12  
Sept '30 6,409,600 18.3 107 After the financial crisis. NAZIs become 2nd largest in Reichstag
July '32 13,745,800 37.4 230 After Hitlers failed candidacy for the presidency
Nov '32 11,737,000 33.1 196  
Mar '33 17,277,000 43.9 288 During Hitler's term as Chancellor of Germany
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Germanys Path to Totalitarianism

• Paul van Hindenburg nominated Hitler Chancellor
  (1/30/33)
• Hitler, a puppet? A good joke!

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General Erich Ludendorfs Prediction (2/1/33)

• By naming Hitler as Reichschancellor, you have
  delivered up our holy Fatherland to one of the
  greatest rabblerousers of all time. I solemnly
  predict that this accursed man will plunge our
  Reich into the abyss and bring our nation into
  inconceivable misery.

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Reichstag FireWho Did It? Hmmm
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Enabling Act(3/23/33)
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Hindenburg Dies

• Appointed Fuhrer, Chancellor and Commander in
  Chief Busy Guy!
• Does this remind you of history repeating itself?

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Governments New Role

• Supervise labor business
• National Labor Front organization for workers
  employers
• Unemployment
• German Culture censorship
• Wagner, atheism/pantheism, Hitlers Youth
• Nationalism propaganda

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Nuremberg Laws (1935)
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Nuremburg Laws

• Racial Identification
• 4 grandparents German Blood
• ¾ grandparents Jewish Jewish
• Others Jewish

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Kristallnacht (11/9/38)
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Today Germany, Tomorrow the World!

• WWII Nazi Occupation of Europe

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The Versailles Treaty
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The League Of Nations Will Save the World!
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The League Looks Effective
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Rhineland (3.7.36)

• The forty-eight hours after the march into the
  Rhineland were the most nerve-wracking in my
  life.
• If the French had then marched into the
  Rhineland, we would have had to withdraw.

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Axis Powers (Oct. 1936) The Pact of Steel!
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Axis Test Their Strength(July 1936)

• Spanish Civil War
• Francisco Franco the Nationalists

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The Spanish Civil War
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Guernica Pablo Picasso

• Technique of Cubism

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AnschlussMarch 1938
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Sudetenland the Munich Conference (9/29/38)

• How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that
  we should be digging trencheshere because of a
  quarrel in a faraway country between people of
  whom we know nothing. Neville Chamberlain

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It is peace for our time! by Neville
Chamberlain
Appeasement
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Can I Just Have Czechoslovakia?I just need to
expand the Reich
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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression PactAug. 1939
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Danzig The Polish Corridor
Danzig and the Polish Corridor
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The Phony RaidAug. 31, 1939

• Disguised as Polish Soldiers
• Seized German Radio Station
• Hmmm why would Hitler create this plot?

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Blitzkrieg!(9/1/39)
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Tripartite Pact What the hecklets add Japan?
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Holocaust

• Germany and its allies during the War
• A German New Order
• Treatment of Occupied Peoples
• -- Mongrelized peoples
• --Treatment of Slavs
• The importance of orderly reproduction or
  scientific breeding

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Anti-Semitism

• Nuremburg Laws
• Warsaw Ghetto 10/40
• Einsatzgruppen

• Work Camps v. Death Camps
• Final Solution Eichmann

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Dachau
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Arrival at Auschwitz
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Empty Cans of Zyklon B
Mounds of Shoes Clothes
Condemned to the Showers
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 4/1943