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Totalitarianism and World War II

Totalitarianism and World War II. Hitler’s Long Range Plans. Hitler’s view of history. All history is about _____________... Volksgemeinschaft Overturning Versailles Solving the “Jewish Question” Finding Lebensraum in the east for the German people. . 1933-1936.

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Totalitarianism and World War II

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  1. Totalitarianism and World War II

  2. Hitler’s Long Range Plans • Hitler’s view of history. All history is about _____________... • Volksgemeinschaft • Overturning Versailles • Solving the “Jewish Question” • Finding Lebensraum in the east for the German people.

  3. 1933-1936 • 1933- Withdrawal from the the League of Nations • 1935- Begin rearmament and universal conscription • Aid to Spanish fascists, Remilitarize the Rhineland, Rome-Berlin Axis

  4. 1937-1939 • Spring 38-Anschluss with Austria • Fall 38-Sudetenland crisis and Munich Conference • Spring 39-Invasion of Czechoslovakia, agitation against Poland • Allies guarantee Polish security

  5. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

  6. September 1, 1939

  7. Division of Poland between USSR and Germany

  8. Blitzkrieg on Norway and Denmark (April 1940):Paratroopers

  9. The Blitzkrieg: Stuka (Sturzkampfflugzeuge)

  10. Blitzkrieg: “Panzer” is short for Panzerkampfwagen (armored fighting-wagon).

  11. These may take some time to load Attack on French (May, 1940) Note the tanks and Stukas in the last few minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkG0KqlMnJI&feature=related Air attack on Crete (May, 1941) Paratroopers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIyRk33pf30

  12. Cauldron Battles: How they work…

  13. Blitzkrieg on Holland, Belgium, and France (May 10 1940) Creating a “Cauldron” of French and British Troops at Dunkirk

  14. German soldiers in Holland (May 1940)

  15. 1940

  16. Battle of Britain

  17. Hitler invades “the center of Judeo-Bolshevism” in June, 1941

  18. More Cauldron Battles…

  19. The German blitz…

  20. “General Winter” stops the Germans

  21. Even the oil and grease for the tanks has frozen

  22. 1942: Hitler tries again

  23. Fighting for oil in the south of Russia

  24. 1942: Stalin’s Order 227 “Not One Step Back!” • NKVD (Secret Communist Police)

  25. Video Clip—Blocking UnitsStalin’s “Not One Step Back” order (#227)

  26. Battle of Stalingrad

  27. Fighting for the Factories

  28. 1942 and today: The Factories are still monuments

  29. Resistance by Germans against the Nazis

  30. Racism in propaganda: Anti-Japanese

  31. Anti-Americanism

  32. Anti-Semitism and Anti-Black racism

  33. The Logical result of Racism: Genocide and the Holocaust

  34. Japanese belief in Racial superiority Executing Allied POWs Rape of Nanjing

  35. American mistreatment of Japanese, on the battlefield and off

  36. Einsatzgruppen(Operation-Groups)in Russia June 1941

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