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Germany 1918-1945. *April 20 th 1889 in Austria † April 30th 1945 in Berlin Chancellor and dictator (Führer) Leader of Nazi-Party (NSDAP) Just Austrian citizen until 1932. Adolf Hitler. 1918 announcement of republic 1919 first elections chancellor: Philipp Scheidemann
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*April 20th 1889 in Austria † April 30th 1945 in Berlin Chancelloranddictator (Führer) Leader of Nazi-Party (NSDAP) Just Austrian citizen until 1932 Adolf Hitler
1918 announcement of republic 1919 first elections chancellor: Philipp Scheidemann president: Friedrich Ebert Weimar Republic
Equality Religious liberty School attendance Social rights Weimar Constitution
information, ideas, or rumors spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. What is Propaganda?
1919: joined the DAP 1920: Change of name 1921: Propagated as savior of the German nation Attempted coup: wanted to take over cabinet Embargo of Nazi-Party Hitler in jail DAP to NSDAP – His illegal try
1925: reestablishment of NSDAP Legal way Dispositions everywhere –> 100 per day January 1933: NSDAP takes over power chancellor: Adolf Hitler president since 1925: Paul von Hindenburg His legal “try”
Art. 48 Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State or Reichstag FireDecree constitutionalamendment Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich Beginning of the German Reich
No worker unions Law against the reestablishment of parties Preparing for the war Decrease of unemployment Saving of German nation Credits and public work Changes
Hitlerjugend (HJ) Hitler Youth Bund deutscherMädel (BDM) League of German Girls Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) Reich Labor Service Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) German Labor Front Schutzstaffel (SS) Sturmabteilung (SA) Storm Troopers Organization
“Work and Bread” (The Great Depression) Party chaos Treaty of Versailles (Defeat in WW1) Anticommunism “people’s community” Anti-Semitism Führer and nation Why was Hitler so successful?Why did the Germans vote for him? Why did the Germans follow him? One Nation One Reich One Führer
Darwin’s theory of natural selection in the evolution of animal species Related to human races Social Darwinism
Conspiracy theory Crucifixion of Jesus Christ First too successful bankers and employers, later they were the reasons for the Great Depression Stab-in-the-back legend Reasons for Anti-Semitism Scapegoat for everything
Social democrats Communists Handicapped Homosexual Hitler’s opponents Other Victims
April 1933: Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service Nuremberg Laws: The Laws for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor How was the persecution of Jews even possible?
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,Über alles in der Welt,Wenn es stets zu(m) Schutz und TrutzeBrüderlich zusammenhält,Von der Maas bis an die Memel,Von der Etsch bis an den Belt|: Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,Über alles in der Welt! :| Germany, Germany above everything,Above everything in the world,When it always for protection and defence,Brotherly stands together.From the Meuse to the Neman,From the Adige to the Belt,|: Germany, Germany above everything,Above everything in the world. :| National Enhyme
“Germans! Don’t go in Jewish stores. The Jews are our bad luck. Avoid Jewish doctors. Don’t go to Jewish lawyers!”
Highest priority of secrecy The most written documents got destroyed after job execution Everybody just knew enough to do it Code language: “Final solution’’, “resettlement”, “special treatment”, “evacuation” Concentration Camps were in the East Screening against unwanted insights Nobody was allowed to tell rumors about mass murders Concentration CampsHow was it possible that the majority did not know about it? Controlled incorrect information
Critique of allied no help for emmigration 1941: The allied started to know about the mass murders no specific procedure When the first message arrived in the US, the State Department tried to stop the publishment Why did nobody really react?
You do not help country to be better when you take everything away what it has Human rights What can we learn out of it?