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Adolf Hitler
Hitler was just like any other moody kid and wanted to be a painter, but as he got older he was heavily influenced hate on Jews by Karl Lueger, the mayor. After he gained his hate for Jews he wanted to help take over, so he re-built NSDAP which helped him gain votes for office. But he was imprisoned for 5 years for an act of arson, while he wrote a book called Mein Kampf, My Struggle, he only had to be in there for 9 months. What really started WWII was when Germany invaded Poland -
Hitler Youth
Nazi leaders used propaganda to reel in more Germans and Europeans. They influenced biased information to shape the public's opinion and behavior. Hitler Youth was eventually created to influence more women to join the strike. The whole point was to break up church youth groups, spy on religious classes and Bible studies, and interfere with church attendance. These women were trained to be a wife, mother, and homemaker. -
Communism
Communism in simple terms is a classless society in which companies are all publicly controlled. There was no government to interfere with it and everything was shared equally throughout the civilians. Hitler would not like communism because of his selfishness. Hitler was a very selfish guy who wanted to control everything and wanted everything to himself. -
Meaning of Holocaust
The Holocaust really means destruction through fire or the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II. But I think its called the Holocaust because it was an act of mass genocide. -
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The Reichstag Fire
The german parliament building burned down due to arson. 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. This was called the Reichstag Fire Decree, they abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship. -
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Nazi Camps
Nazi camps were established to put Jews so they weren't out runnin around Germany. The five were called, Concentration camps, Forced Labor camps, Transit camps, Prisoner of war camps, and killing centers. The only people that went in these camps were jews who were good at work prisoners of war, and jews who were about to be killed. The most common the concentration camp was for the detention of civilians seen as real or perceived “enemies of the Reich.” -
Book Burning
German students from universities came together in Berlin and other big cities to burn books with "unGerman" ideas. They targeted Einstein, Thomas Mann and others.
Its ironic that 100 years earlier Heinrich Heine stated that "Where books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too." This is ironic because the Nazis are going after jews, and Heinrich was jewish. He is also saying they will get what they deserve for burning books. -
Nuremberg Race Laws
The laws were created to basically take away Jewish Germans rights and citizenship. These laws would not allow Jews to marry and designated Jews as "subjects". -
Jessie Owens
Jessie Owens was an african american man back in the 1936 olympics that he participated in. He was able to win 4 gold medals in track and field, but despite him winning back at home he was still an african american man in the great depression. He did influence other african american athletes to shine though. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht occurred on November 9 1938 and was a massive coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich. Kristallnacht also means the the night of broken glass -
German Ghettos
These Ghettos were enclosed districts that isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. The 3 types of Ghettos were open, closed, and destruction. The largest was the Warsaw Ghetto and that was the place where the largest revolt occurred.