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Treaty of Versailles
1.Lose Land
2.Lose Military
3.Pay back money to winners -
Hitler On Trial
Uses trial to give huge speech further blaming Jews for problems of Germany -
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Republic Government
The President was a popular war hero named hindenburg -
Beer Hall Putsch
Massive failurie -
Hitler is named Chancellor
Hitler gained support and worked his way up to Chancellor
-eliminate political rivals to be head of Nazis
-rising popularity of Nazis forces Hindenburg to give him some power. -
Hitler Blames communists for fire
Hitler sends people to burn the rastagburg -
Enabling Act
-Basically gives power of decision making to Hitler
-Within a few months, all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminated
-This allowed Hitler to get rid of all his rivals -
First Concentration camps set up, mostly for political prisoners
Early on, the camps were for imprisonment and hard labor , not for killing -
Nurmberg Laws
Nazis needed a way to identify Jews so they could discriminate them
Nurmberg Laws defined people with 3 or 4 Jewish Grandparents as "Jewish" and 1 or 2 as "Mixed Blood". -
Germany Army moves into Austria and Germany
to avoid war, other countries let them do it. -
Kristallnacht
in response to the murder of a German diplomat, orders are given to Nazi party members to riot against Jewish Businesses and homes....but make it look like a civilian uprising. -
Germany Invades Poland (which has 3 million Jews in its population).
WII Beings. -
Nazis establish Ghettos
Largest Ghettos were i cities like Warsaw or Lodz in Poland -
Euthanasia Program Begins
Euthanasia- Systemic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis deemed "unworthy of life " because of mental illness or physical disability
Eventually, 80,000 people with disabilities will be killed -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
-Residents smuggled weapons in
-Uprising lasted for about a month
-SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended -
Prisoners fought back at death camps..Treblinka Sobibor
After stealing weapons from guards prisoners tried to escape.Most were killed but few dozen made it out and survived the war. -
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Members of the Sonderkommando working in the Crematoium fought SS guards killing over 70 but all 250 as well as 200 others were killed in response. -
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 -
Nuremberg Trails
The International community put a number of Germans on trail for War crimes Against Peace and crimes against humanity