1 / 7

Hitler’s Rise to Power

Hitler’s Rise to Power. Experiences in WWI A. Hitler was a soldier in WWI fighting on the side of Germany. B. He believed that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair to Germany. 1. Was angry about reparations and war guilt clause.

russ
Download Presentation

Hitler’s Rise to Power

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Hitler’s Rise to Power

  2. Experiences in WWI A. Hitler was a soldier in WWI fighting on the side of Germany. B. He believed that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair to Germany. 1. Was angry about reparations and war guilt clause. 2. Believed that Germany had been stabbed in the back by Jews and traitors.

  3. ABOVE: Adolf Hitler as a soldier during World War War, 1914. ABOVE: One of Hitler’s oil paintings. (Historians rate Hitler as a mediocre painter).

  4. II. Mein Kampf A. German word for “my struggle,” which was the title of Hitler’s book. B. In 1923, Hitler was jailed for “The Beer Hall Putsch,” in which he tried to incite a revolution against Germany’s weak Weimar Republic government. C. While in jail, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, in which he blamed Germany’s struggles on the Treaty of Versailles and Jews while using the stab in the back theory.

  5. III. View of Religion and Race A. Hitler did not like the teachings of Jesus because religion made God seem higher than Hitler. B. Hitler felt that creating a nation that was free of non-Aryan or “inferior races” was his god given mission. C. The goal of the eugenics movement was to produce “genetically perfect” children and to discourage “race mixing.”

More Related