 *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

 1918 announcement of republic  1919 first elections   chancellor: Philipp Scheidemann   president: Friedrich Ebert

 Equality  Religious liberty  School attendance  Social rights

 information, ideas, or rumors spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

 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

 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

 Art. 48 Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State or Reichstag Fire Decree   constitutional amendment   Law to Remedy the Distress of People and 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 YearUnemployment (Mio) 19210, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,1

 Hitlerjugend (HJ)  Hitler Youth  Bund deutscher Mädel (BDM)  League of German Girls  Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD)  Reich Labor Service  Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF)  German Labor Front  Schutzstaffel (SS)  Sturmabteilung (SA)  Storm Troopers

 “Work and Bread” (The Great Depression)  Party chaos  Treaty of Versailles (Defeat in WW1)  Anticommunism  “people’s community”  Anti-Semitism  Führer and nation One Nation One Reich One Führer

 Darwin’s theory of natural selection in the evolution of animal species  Related to human races

 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 Scapegoat for everything

 Social democrats  Communists  Handicapped  Homosexual  Hitler’s opponents

 April 1933: Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service  Nuremberg Laws: The Laws for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor

 Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt, Wenn es stets zu(m) Schutz und Trutze Brüderlich 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. :|

“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  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 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

 You do not help country to be better when you take everything away what it has  Human rights