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Impact of Hitler's Rise to Power on German Culture and Population

Learn about the powerful and lasting effects of Hitler's rise to power on German culture and population. Explore key events such as Kristallnacht and the Armenian Genocide, as well as the rise of modern anti-Semitism and the reaction to the Nazi government.

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Impact of Hitler's Rise to Power on German Culture and Population

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  1. 10th World Studies 4.25.17 Turn in: • Reading from last night… Take out : • Planner/Calendar • NOTES & NOTE-TAKING DEVICE Today’s Learning Objectives: • I can understand how Hitler’s rise to power impacted the culture of Germany and the population. Today’s Agenda: • Questions??? • Kristallnacht HW: • None

  2. Powerful & Continuing Nationalism • Disdain for Human Rights • Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats (as a Unifying Cause) • Supremacy of the Military • Rampant Sexism • Controlled Mass Media • Obsession with National Security

  3. Religion & Government are intertwined • Corporate Power is protected • Labor Power is suppressed • Disdain for Intellectuals & the Arts • Obsession with Crime & Punishment • Rampant Cronyism & Corruption • Fraudulent Elections

  4. News Update: Armenian Genocide • Telegram sent July 4, 1915. And the telegram says the following – • “are the Armenians who were deported from there being liquidated? Are the troublesome individuals whom you have reported as having been exiled and expelled been eliminated or merely sent off and deported? Please report honestly.”

  5. Modern Anti Semitism • Pogroms in Russia • “To wreak havoc, to demolish violently.” • Odessa, 1821—Anti-Jewish riots • 1881-84 following the assassination of Alexander II • 1917 Bolshevik Revolution (and into the Civil War) • WWII and post-war: parts of USSR and occupied eastern European areas

  6. Modern Anti Semitism June/July 1941—Lviv (Ukraine) What do you notice? About 6000 Polish Jews were massacred. Stanislawow—Oct. 12, 1941—10-12K Jews gathered and shot…

  7. Modern Anti Semitism • Zionism—the belief that the Jewish population should have their own separate state…World-Wide Movement! • Founded by Theodor Hertzl in 1897 as a political group • Many of the members believed antisemitism would be the best friend of this movement. • With the election of Hitler’s govt. the movement gained momentum

  8. Reaction to Nazi Government • Protests and boycotts • 40,000 people around Madison Square Garden • Boycotts around the world

  9. Judenrein “cleansed of Jews” “purity” • 1933 the Nazi’s organized a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany. Many local boycotts continued throughout much of the 1930’s

  10. Civil Service Law • April 7, 1933- Passed Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. Any government employee could be dismissed for any reason • Hitler could fire the Jews who worked for the government • Other laws banned Jews from schools, other professions and owning land soon followed

  11. May 10, 1933- Nazi party members, teachers, and others burned books written by Jews and political opponents of Nazis Book Burnings

  12. Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Disease • July 14, 1933- Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Disease • Mandates the forced sterilization of certain physically or mentally impaired individuals • Buck v Bell (1927) • "public welfare" outweighed the interest of individuals in their bodily integrity… • "Three generations of imbeciles are enough"

  13. Nuremberg Laws of 1935 • Nuremberg is where the Nazis had their party rallies • These laws withdrew citizenship from Jews • Now they were only subjects • Forbade marriages and sexual relations between Jews and Germans • Jews could not employ German women under 45 in their households • Identified who was Jewish by % Jewish blood • 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents • More organized persecution of Jews began

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  15. More Pressure on Jewish Population -April 26, 1938. -Decree passed that stated all Jewish people had to give the German government all their fortunes and property. The German government requires all Jews to register assets over 5,000 Reichsmarks, which then become available to Hermann Göring, the "Commissioner for the Four Year Plan," for use "in the interests of the German economy." -To encourage the emigration of Jewish people from Germany.

  16. June 23 , 1938. Berlin, Germany. On this night the propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels put a stamp of official approval of the new feeling of anti-Semitism, this caused a massive crowd of 120,000 people to scream out, “Out with Jews- Out with Jews”. This article also describes how recently all Jewish businesses were smeared with red paint so anyone to pass by was aware. He was also stated to have started open campaigns and riots against the Jewish people with his speeches. “If people say, ‘why, the Jews aren’t doing anything,’ I say why they are provoking us with their very presence.”

  17. Evian Conference • July 1938, FDR calls for and international conference to address the “refugee” problem. • 33 countries attended • 9 day meeting where countries expressed sympathy for the refugees, but offered little help • Only the Dominican Republic offered to take a large number of Jews

  18. Paris November 7, 1938 • Ernst vomRath • Diplomat to France • Shot by 19-year old  Herschel Grynszpan at the embassy • Hitler sent his best doctors to try to save his life • Hitler also promoted him hours before his death…Nov. 9, 1938 • Kristallnacht is enacted within hours

  19. Kristallnacht • The pogram was called Kristallnacht • Night of the Broken Glass • Gangs of Nazi youth broke windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burned synagogues, and looted • 101 synagogues burned • 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed • 26,000 Jews arrested and 91 died • The official German position was that they were spontaneous outbursts

  20. Kristallnacht— “spontaneous”?!?

  21. Kristallnacht • November 12th, Goering calls a meeting of top Nazi leadership to access damage and place responsibility for it. • It was decided that since Jews were to blame for these events, they be held legally and financially responsible for the damages

  22. Kristallnacht Damages • There were massive insurance claims from the damages of Kristallnacht • Jews themselves would be billed for the damage and that any insurance money due them would be confiscated by the State

  23. Kristallnacht • Of critical importance, at this meeting Goering announced, “I have received a letter written on the Fuhrer’s orders requesting that the Jewish question be now, once and for all, coordinated and solved one way or another.”

  24. Paris November 7, 1938 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtEkRpGpHE8 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y0uwd9QAYE

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