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What is a bully?. Question 1- What words would you use to describe bullying behavior? Question 2- Why do you think other people follow this sort of behavior? . Guiding Questions- Hitler letter on Treaty of Versailles. As you fill out Document Analysis Form keep these questions in mind.
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What is a bully? • Question 1- What words would you use to describe bullying behavior? • Question 2- Why do you think other people follow this sort of behavior?
Guiding Questions- Hitler letter on Treaty of Versailles • As you fill out Document Analysis Form keep these questions in mind. • Be aware of date. • What words help you to describe Hitler’s tone. • What message do you think Hitler is sending to the world?
Hitler’s rise to power How was it possible?
Essential Question • How was Adolf Hitler able to rise to power and gain German support that would defend his Nazi ideology, at the expense of millions?? • What occurred prior to World War 11 for German citizens to be so susceptible to such evil power?
Nazi ideology • Adolf Hitler’s NAZI party encouraged national pride, militarism, and a commitment to a racially "pure" Germany. • fueled anti-Semitism by calling for expulsion of Jewish people. • identified with lower middle classes. • rural and small town areas
Terms of Treaty of Versailles • Several territories belonging to Germany taken and given mostly to France, Belgium • All oversea territory lost • Germany’s army reduced to 100,000 men; no tanks, no air force • Reduced navy- no submarines • “War Guilt Clause“- Germany responsible for starting war- pay reparations- £6,600 million EFFECT- ignites Nazi party – 27,000 members by 1925
Guiding Questions: Germany’s letter to Great Britain 1939 • Keep this is mind as you fill out second box in Document Analysis form. • What is Hitler’s tone in this letter? How is it different then letter in 1923?
Great Depression of 1929 • plunged Germany further into economic catastrophe. • Stock Market Crash in 1929 one cause Nazi party rise to 108,000 • Germany relied on foreign funds and trade. • Loans called in • Unemployment • inflation • Weimar Republic blamed
Rhetoric “He used simple, straightforward language that ordinary people could understand, short sentences, powerful, emotive slogans... There were no qualifications in what he said; everything was absolute, uncompromising, irrevocable, undeviating, unalterable, final. He seemed... to speak straight from the heart, and to express their own deepest fear and desires... “
Persuasive Speeches • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-6H4xOUrs&skipcontrinter=1 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hEzs7x5aEM&skipcontrinter=1
Guiding Questions: Letters from Nazi soldiers • Was the young boy proud at time, to be part of Hitler’s youth? • How does he view Germany? • Does he appear to justify reason for following Hitler? • Compare stories of German soldiers. How was life on the battlefield contrary to Nazi beliefs?