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Treaty of Versailles
- lost LOTS land
- lose military
- pay back money to winners
- unfair to Germany
- blamed their loss on the Jews
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Price of Bread
Cost of a 2lbs loaf of bread December 1920- 3.37 marks
December 1921- 3.90 marks
December 1922- 163.15 marks
January 1923- 474 marks
July 1923- 3,465 marks
August 1923- 69,000 marks
September 1923- 1.512 million marks
October 1923- 1.743 billion marks
November 1923- 201 billion marks
December 1923- 399 billion marks -
Hyper Inflation
- prices rise too fast
- gets out of control
- beyond government control
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Beerhall Putsch
- Hitler tries to overthrow the German government
- did NOT work
- Hitler was arrest
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Hitler on Trial
- admits he tried to overthrow government
- spins it into something good for him
- newspaper prints what he says
- gains lots of fans
- only gets 9 months in jail
- fancy time in jail
- got to talk to people and stigmatize
- wrote a book "My fight/ struggle"
- book was just his thoughts
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Republic style of Government
-vote for people who make decisions
- Example: america
- have president -
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Republic Style Government
- people vote for people to represent us
- Like USA
- had that while Hitler was rising to power
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Great Depression
- stock market crashes
- Hitlers popularity kicked off
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Anne Frank is born
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Became Chancellor
- Hitler became the leader of Germany
- Was nonviolent at this point
- He took Germany because they were sad because of loosing a war and were venerable
- was in 3rd power place
- Hitler has power but not too much
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Reichstag Fire
- blames communists for fire
- reichstag = white house/ capital
- nazi did it
- blamed it on communist
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Enabling Act
- gives Hittler power to make decisions
- within a few months all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminated
- allowed Hitler to get rid of all his rivals
- Bumped him from #3 to #1
- supposed to only be "temporary"
- we see OFFICIAL BOYCOTT OF JEWISH BUSINESSES
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HOLOCAUST
Mass killing of 11 million people by the Nazis and Hitler, the dictator of Germany. -
Nuremburg Law
- Jewish people had their rights taken away
- Example: forced to live in ghetto, had to wear badges, etc.
- decided who's Jewish and who is not
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Impact of Nuremburg Laws
- denied citizenship
- forbade Jews from marrying non Jews (cant marry)
- punishments ~ fines. imprisonment, hard work
- can not wave their national flag
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Smuggling/ Ghetto
- take something somewhere where its not to supposed to be
- EX: taking candy into the movies under coat or in pocket
- In Ghetto ~ removing bricks from center of wall ~ jump the walls ~ kids are #1 smugglers in ghettos because they're small, fast, and innocent
- 400,00 for every 1.3 square mile area
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Kristallnacht
- Day of broken glass burned Jewish churches
- arrested every Jewish male on the street
- smashed windows
- was first sign of violence
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Germany Invades Poland
- starting of the war
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WWII
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Ghettos
- places where the Jews had to live
- filled with diseases and bad things
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Euthanasia Program
-systematically killing those deemed "unworthy of life" due to physical disability/ mental illness - 80,000 people - -
WWII #2
- Germany invades Poland
- told their countries he just wanted some of his land back and then later breaks his promise and invaded Poland
- 3 million more Jews come into Nazi power from Poland
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WWII #3
- Nazis put Jews into Ghettos
- Ghetto~ bad part of town, more crime, more disease, "the hood"
- moved Jews in there to keep an eye on them
- walled them in there
- not allowed to leave
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Camp
-taken forcibly
-played mind games with them ¨work will set you free¨
-packed into trains
-no light, air, or breaks
-many died on the way
-everything was taken from them
-Gas chamber and labor
-Killed people in gas chamber who were pregnant, too young, too old, sick, disabled etc.
-after dead hair was shaved and teeth were taken out
-all living people had jobs
- worked till they died
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Zyklon B
- first death camp
- the gas used to kill people
- didn't have to waste bullets anymore
- made gas chambers
- kill lots of people in a short amount of time
- discover how dangerous it can be
- first test it in 1941
- easiest method to kill
- used for mass extermination
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Wannsee Conference
- "final solution"
- Nazi gathered in fancy hotel
- exterminate ALL Jews
- all people approved
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Einsatzgrupen
- mobile killing squads
- men killing Jewish people
- gather them all up and kill them
- 33,000 people out of a town
- 700 people an hour
- normally shooting them down in rows of about 15 people at once
- waste lots of bullets
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Anne's Family Goes into hiding
- They were jews
- Hitler hated jews
- wanted to kill off all the jewish people
- they were in serious danger
- Nazis were going to kill them or send them to concentration camps
- went into hiding
- went with the Van Dan family
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- residents smuggled weapons in to the ghetto
- Uprising lasted for about a month
- SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended
- SS are Germans in charge of the ghettos
- "go out guns a blazing"
- hand guns and a few explosives
- weak weapons at first them more powerful weapons at the end
- killing German soldiers and taking their weapons
- first few shot were from buildings while they're walking around
- "went down without a fight"
- raises their spirits
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Camp Rebellion
- beat guards with fists
- took their weapons
- armed they went into the weapon storage
- blew up crematorium
- Nazi send messages to kill other random people
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Death Marches
- allies moved toward death camps
- Nazis evacuate prisoners
- march them into Germany to avoid capture
- brutal treatment and harsh along the way
- shot the slow and sick people who could not move the pace they wanted
- some prisoners move to several death marches
- killed people along the way
- some froze over night because it was mostly during winter
- had to keep up at fast pace or else killed
- leaving cause camps are being liberated
- have to get out of the camps and go somewhere else
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Defeated
Allies defeated the Nazis and Hitler. They went to camps and saved all the people who were left. Many people still do NOT know what happened to their family. -
D.P. Camps
- Displaced person camps
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Nuremberg Trials
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Liberation
- camps throughout Europe are liberated by Allied forces
- can not do death marches because not enough camps left
- leaving prisoners behind and Nazi leave
- this is a good ting
- Allies are fighting against them
- liberated means to be freed
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Death of Hitler
- Hitler commits suicide
- he kills himself rather than face capture by the Soviet Red Army
- wife drinks poison
- he shoots himself
- told them to burn their bodies so the Soviet Red Army couldn't even take their bodies
- Germany surrenders within a week
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Mr. Frank returns to the annex
- finds annes diary
- weak from concentration camp
- upset and very sad
