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Hitler's rule
A boy who wanted to originally be a painter wanted to seek power through subverting the Weimar gov system, and carefully rebuilt the NSDAP, or Nazi party. With the Nazi party on his side he spoke out against the Treaty of Versaille which blamed the world war on Germany and greatly punished them, and started the holocaust. He was also believed to have been the main reason why WWII started because he believed in German expansion -
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Nazi Camps
These camps were an integral part of Hitler's plan. There were 44,000 camps, filled with “Enemies of the state” Political prisoners—German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats—as well as Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and persons accused of "asocial" or socially deviant behavior. Concentration camps were also instated designed to work these people (mostly jews) to the point of death and them kill them through the gas chamber method. -
The Reichstag fire
the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising. They claimed that emergency legislation was needed to prevent this. The resulting act, commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship -
Book burning in Nazi germany
Hundreds of books were burned fueled by people with "unGerman Ideas". Thomas Mann and Jack London were among the authors targeted in this book burning -
The Nuremberg Race Laws
the purpose of the Nuremburg Race Laws was to protect German Blood and German Honor along with Reich Citizenship law. These laws were mainly aimed to make life for Jew's as miserable as possible. -
Kristallnacht
Hitler’s nazi storm troopers along with other nazi idealists beat and murdered Jews, broke into and wrecked Jewish homes and brutalized Jewish woman and children. This ended up resulting in thousands of jewish businesses being burned down, hundreds of synagogues being burned down, and 91 Jew’s being killed -
The Ghettos - Nazi Germany
During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of brutally separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. Jews were forced to move into the ghettos, where living conditions were miserable -
holocaust Nazi Germany
A mass slaughter of people & a sacrifice consumed by fire
The Jews were sacrificed for the “greater good” of Germany according to Nazi beliefs