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Treaty of Versailles
*Germany had to lose land, lose money, and pay back the winners *military was bad
*after world war 1 -
Hyper Inflation
*Prices raise too high, too fast, and too early -
Beerhall Putsch
*Hitler attempts to overthrow the German Government
*very big hall, where everyone goes and sits on these big and long benches and tables to drink beers. -
Hitler on Trial
*goes on trial for doing bad things for their own country
*he uses the trial to blame the Jews for their problems
*they all believed him
*he used it to get on the trial to get in the newspaper
*his jail time was not harsh at all -
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Weimar Republic
*they had a republic style government
*The president was a popular war hero named Hindenburg
*but his health began to fail him in the early 1930's
*when the government is runes by representatives -
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Holocaust
*Hitler
*about 1.5 million Jews died
*about 5 million non Jews died
*in Germany
*more people died in the Holocaust than 911
*kids were sent to concentration camps
*Germany was in need of help
*Hitler used Germany
*Hitler was a patient man
*over a span of 10 years
*Hitler killed those by the way they looked or what they believed in -
Reichstag Fire (Parliament Fire)
*Hitler blames communists for fire -
Enabling Act
*Hitler gets power to make decision making
*in a few months, all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminate
*this allowed Hitler to get rid of all his rivals
*Official boycott of Jewish businesses as well -
Nuremberg Laws
*If you weren't Jewish, then you couldn't shop at Jewish stores.
Nazis needed a way to identify Jews so they could discriminate them
*f you had 3 or 4 Jewish Grandparents as "Jewish" and 1 or 2 as "mixed blood" -
Kristallnacht
*also known as "Night Of Broken Glass"
*Program against Jews throughout Nazi Germany -
Ghettos
Nazis begin rounding up millions of Jews and confining them to Ghettos.
*Largest Ghettos were in cities like Warsaw or Lodz in Poland. -
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World War 2
*World War 2 started -
Euthanasia Program Begins
*Euthanasia~systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis deemed "unworthy of life" because of mental illness or physical disability
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Germany Invades Poland
*Germany invades Poland which has 3 million Jews in its population.
*a world war will result in the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe. -
First Death Camp
*death camp opens at Chelmno in central Poland
*vans with gas chambers in the rear are used -
Wannsee Conference
*Nazi Leaders approve the "Final Solution" or plan to exterminate the Jews. -
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Einsatzgruppen
*Mobile killing squads or "Action Kommandos" -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
*residents smuggled weapons in
*uprising lasted for about a month
*SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended -
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Camp Rebellions
*Prisoners fought back at death camps
*Prisoners try to escape
*members of the Sonderkommando working in the Crematorium fought SS guards killing over 70 -
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Death Marches
*Allies advancing toward death camps
*Nazis evacuate prisoners, march them into Germany to avoid capture
*Brutal treatment and harsh conditions along the way -
Liberation
*camps throughout Europe are liberated by allied forces -
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Survivers
*areas former prisoners to stay while searching for family and a permanent place to live. -
Suicide
*Hitler commits suicide rather than face capture by the Soviet Red Army
*Germany surrenders within a week -
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Nuremberg Trials
*The allies and the International Community put a number of Germans on trial for War crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
*all of them were found guilty, and some got the death penalty, and some got put to a long time sentence in prison.