Recognize this kid?
Jan 15, 2016
Recognize this kid?
Adolf Hitler
The rise of Nazi Germany
Objectives:• The objective of this presentation is to give
students an understanding of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.
• Students will also become familiar with how the Nazi party gained power
Overall Purpose:
The overall purpose of this presentation is to explain how this little boy on the
left became the man on the right who was ultimately
responsible for the death of about 50 million people all
over the world!!
(a bit of background) Weimar Republic
• Kaiser abdicates after the war
• Parliamentary govt. after WWI
• Led by a chancellor
• Widely viewed as weak
• Horrific inflation, some recovery but then the depression hit…
QWHow does presenting Hitler this way
soften his image?
Birth• Adolf Hitler was
born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau, Austria.
Parents
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Military ServiceThis is a picture of Hitler listening to an enlistment speech.
World War I• Excited to fight for
Germany.• Was awarded the Iron
Cross twice. (5 medals overall)
• Hitler was devastated when he heard the news of the German surrender.
German Worker’s Party• Despised the Weimar
govt. which he saw as weak
• 1919 Joins a group of right wing extremists
NAZI Party is Formed• Within a year he was
undisputed leader of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party or the NAZIS
Beer Hall Putsch• October 30, 1923• Hitler held a rally in
Munich beer hall and declared revolution
• Led 2000 men in take over the Bavarian Government
• It failed and Hitler was imprisoned
15th Anniversary Of Beer Hall Putsch
Mein Kampf/My Struggle• Written while in jail• Extreme nationalism• Racism• Anti-Semitism –
Blamed Jews for nearly everything
• Master Race - Aryans
Legal Rise to Power• Used popularity from
failed revolution and book to seize power legally
• Spoke to mass audiences about making Germany a great nation again
• Hitler becomes Chancellor in 1933
Appeal of Hitler• Germany was in the midst of an economic
depression with hyper-inflation• Hitler was a WW I hero who talked about bringing
glory back to the “Fatherland”• He promised the rich industrialists that he would
end any communist threat in Germany• Used the Jews as a scapegoat• Promised to rearm Germany• Hitler was a dramatic public speaker.
•"I was carried on the wave of the enthusiasm which ... bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence,“
chief Nazi architect, Albert Speer, recalled of one Nazi rally.
"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one“ AH
Link 1:05 Link rally in color 1:33
QW
• Based on the video clips what kinds of things do we need to watch for to avoid being influenced by someone who is a fanatic?
Strong Arm Tactics• The “Brownshirts” or SA
(Stormtroopers)
• SA was used to put down opposition parties
• Threatened and beat up Jews and ant-Nazi voters
• Numbered almost 400,000 by 1932
Dictator• “Reichstag fire” gives
Hitler total power• In 1933, all parties
were outlawed except the Nazi party
• People’s civil rights were suspended
Absolute Power• German economy was
improving, people were happy
• Hitler had no political opposition
• 1st concentration camp opened in 1933
• Began rearming German Army for expansion of the Reich
"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.“ AH
"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
QW
• What are the warning signs someone is a bad politician?
Hitler Highlights• Nuremberg Laws: 1935, Deprived Jews of
citizenship. Could not marry non-Jews, teach at German schools, hold govt. Jobs, be doctors lawyers, or publishers
• Kristalnacht (Night of Broken Glass) : Nov. 1938, Hitler orders a night of violence against Jews. 1000’s of businesses and homes and synagogues attacked.
• Night of the Long Knives: On this night, Hitler removed his political enemies.
First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jewsand I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak outbecause I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak outbecause I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for meand there was no one left
to speak out for me.Pastor Martin Niemöller
THEEND
.......................Until the start of World War II