Diverting Germans

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Diverting Germans Attention from Domestic
Problems Foreign Policy
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Hitlers Foreign Policy Aims

• Re-arm Germany
• So that Germany can defend itself
• Tear up the Treaty of Versailles
• Restore Germany to its old borders
• Create a Greater Germany!
• Fit for the Master Race

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Revising the Treaty of Versailles?What areas did
Hitler want to return to Germany?
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Timeline of building a Greater Germany

• 1935
• Saar Plebiscite
• Great success for Hitler as 90 of Saar
  voluntarily elect to rejoin booming Germany
• 1936
• Remilitarisation of Rhineland
• German Army is ordered back into the Rhineland
  (against the Treaty of Versailles)
• They are ordered to withdraw if Allies oppose
  them
• What was the effect on Hitlers Popularity in
  Germany after these 2 events?

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Timeline of building a Greater Germany

• 1936
• Spanish Civil War
• Germany helps Franco win power in Spain. He uses
  the war as an excuse to test Blitzkrieg out.
• 1938
• Austrian Anschluss
• Hitler creates an excuse to invade Austria. Most
  Austrians are delighted to be reunited with a
  Greater, booming Germany.
• What was the effect on Hitlers Popularity in
  Germany after these 2 events?

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Timeline of building a Greater Germany

• 1938
• Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
• Hitler uses Sudeten Germans as an excuse to take
  the border regions of Czechoslovakia. He promises
  to Britain and France that this is his final
  demand.
• 1938
• Invades Czechoslovakia
• He takes the rest of undefendable and very
  wealthy Czechoslovakia. They are NOT German
• What was the effect on Hitlers Popularity in
  Germany after these 2 events?

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Timeline of building a Greater Germany

• 1939
• Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Hitler and Stalin stun the world by agreeing an
  alliance with each other.
• 1939
• Invasion of Poland
• Hitler confidently expects that Britain and
  France can do little especially after the deal
  with the USSR. He is surprised that World War 2
  breaks out.
• What was the effect on Hitlers Popularity in
  Germany after these 2 events???

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World War 2

• 1940
• Fall of France, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and
  mighty Luxembourg
• Battle of Britain
• 1941
• Fall of Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania
• Advances in Desert
• Invasion of Russia
• To outskirts of Moscow
• What was the effect on Hitlers Popularity in
  Germany after these events???

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The Tide Turns

• 1942
• Stalingrad
• El Alamein
• American Forces start to arrive
• 1943
• Sustained bombings of German cities
• Italy knocked out of war
• 1944
• D-Day
• Russians enter Poland
• German Army tries to assassinate Hitler at the
  Wolfs Lair
• 1945
• Fall of Berlin
• Germans are forced to see the Concentration Camps
  by Allies
• What was the effect on Hitlers Popularity in
  Germany after these events?

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Questions

• Explain why opponents of Hitler had a hard time
  in the 1930s convincing Germans that Hitler was a
  loser.
• How come there does not seem to be a lot of
  criticism of Hitler and the Nazis when things
  start to go wrong in 1942?
• What was Total War? Why didnt Hitler force Total
  war onto the Germans.
• Why did some German officers try to assassinate
  Hitler in 1944?
• How do you think a regular German soldier would
  feel about serving in the Wehrmacht between 1935
  and 1941.
• Write a yearly diary explaining your feelings
  building a Greater Germany and then a new German
  Empire (Third Reich)

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Opposition Groups
Group Grievances Opposition group names Evidence or examples of Anti-Nazi Resistance Punishments received
Youth Groups
The Wehrmacht
The Left
The Churches
Jews
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Germany Overview

• 1918 1933 (A)
• How did the Weimar Republic Fail
• How did the Nazis take advantage
• 1919 1923 The Putsch
• 1929 1933 The Legal Assault
• 1933 1945 (B)
• How did the Nazis stay in power
• Night of the long knives
• Propaganda
• Education
• Persecution

• Groups (C)
• How did they live with the Nazis
• Political Opponents
• Trade Unionists
• Women
• The Armed Forces
• Youth Groups
• Jews

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• Grade F
• Simplistic answer that identifies one key point
• Grade C
• Shows a variety of valid factors in a logical
  order
• Grade A
• Shows complicated interrelationship of a
  multitude of factors

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