Activity 6: The Holocaust

1.      When six million Jews in Germany and other parts of Europe were systematically exterminated in an act of genocide.

2.      They blamed them for the many economic problems that Germany was experiencing.

3.      They first boycotted Jewish shops and businesses they had prejudicial laws placed against them, they had firing squads kill many Jews and they had many of them gassed in concentration camps like Auschwitz.

4.      During the war they did not have the opportunity or man power to free the Jews from these camps and end the oppressive regime because they could not break through the German lines. After the war they had many of the Nazis tried and then executed and the freed all of the Jews out of the concentration camps.

Nazi Germany

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Date	Events
11 November 1918	Germany signs an armistice with the Allies to end  World War I, which Hitler came to regard as treachery against Germany
September 1919	Adolf Hitler joins the German Worker's Party, which later became the Nazi Party
October1920	The Sturm Abteilung (SA) is formed which later brought the Nazi ideologies to the streets and the beer halls
20 December 1924	Adolf Hitler leaves Landsburg Prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf
December 1924	The Nazi Party wins 24 seats in the Reichstag (parliament) for the first time
June 1925	The Schutz Staffeinel (SS), that is the secret police, is formed of ‘racially pure’ men
July 1925	The first volume of Mein Kampf is published
July 1927	The Nazi Party holds its first Nuremberg Rally.
20 May 1928	The Nazi Party loses support in the election, and  wins only 14 seats in the Reichstag.
November 1928	Joseph Goebbels, head of the influential German film industry, is appointed by Hitler to be the Nazi Party’s propagandist
December 1928	The second volume of Mein Kampf is published
September 1930	The Nazi Party now wins 107 seats in the Reichstag
December 1930	Unemployment in Germany reaches nearly 4 million due to the Great Depression
January 1931	Ernst Roehm is appointed Sturm Abteilung chief of staff, although he was later axed by Hitler because of his ambitious to lead the German army
13 March 1932	Paul von Hindenburg defeats Adolf Hitler in presidential elections.
24 April 1932	In Prussia the Nazi Party becomes the largest single party in the state parliament
31 July 1932	The Nazi Party wins 230 seats in the Reichstag
13 August, 1932	Adolf Hitler refuses to serve under Franz von Papen as vice chancellor of Germany
17 November 1932	Franz von Papen resigns as chancellor of Germany.
4 December 1932	Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany.
30 January 1933	Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
27 February 1933	The Reichstag catches fire and Hitler blames the Communists for this
5 March 1933	The Nazi Party fails to win an overall majority in the Reichstag
20 March 1933	The first Nazi concentration camp is formed at Dachau
31 March 1933	Hitler uses the Enabling Bill to exclude Communists from local government eight days after the Bill was passed by the Reichstag
26 April 1933	Herman Goering forms the Gestapo from the former Prussian police
2 June 1933	Adolf Hitler increases the number of Nazis in his government.
4 April 1934	Heinrich Himmler is appointed assistant chief of the Gestapo
29 June 1934	On the Night of the Long Knives the leadership of the SA was purged and the SS became more powerful
2 August 1934	Paul von Hindenburg dies and  Hitler becomes president as well as chancellor

2.       To get people to support them. They did this by promising “Arbeit, Freiheit und Brot” which means Work, Freedom and Bread.

3.       Blonde hair, blue eyes, thin nose and of German or Austrian descent.

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5.       Hitler and other members of the Nazi party made strong speeches to the German people. Also they made films portraying how the Jews were starting wars and keeping them going. In these films there were often battles portraying how brave and strong the German soldiers were. Another medium of propaganda was radio in which they played German music and broadcasted political speeches. Pamphlets handed out in the street also spread their ideologies. Youth camps designed for children and teenagers also helped to spread the Nazi cause.

Bibliography

http://www.polishforums.com/genealogy-ancestry-6/polish-arent-white-32892/3/

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_imglist.cfm?startrow=11&sub_id=195&section_id=13

http://www.nowthatsnifty.com/2010/06/16-wwii-nazi-propaganda-posters.html

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