How were the aggression policies heightened in the year 1938? By: Lindsey Peterson & Keri Rogan

The Anschluss-German Annexation of Austria What did it mean for Austrian Jews? They became victims of anti-Semitism Didn’t have many options to help themselves Why was it successful? Most Austrians did not oppose the invasion Anti-Semitism within Austria was heightened Gave Austrian gentiles the opportunity to turn against their Jewish neighbors Many European and international powers did not try to stop Germany

The Sudetenland Crisis Why did Hitler target the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia? First target of his planned expansion Ethnic German minority used to generate a crisis What was the crisis? Nazis from Germany encouraged Ethnic Germans to express their discontent Hitler planned to rescue the ethnic Germans Czechs mobilized their forces and asked the British and French for help At the Munich Conference, it was decided that Czechoslovakia should cede the Sudetenland to Germany because it contained a substantial ethnic German population

The Sudetenland Crisis Did failure at Munich cause the second world war? A harder line from Chamberlain, an “appeaser”’,would have melted Nazi aggression? Hitler was set on war He felt cheated with a negotiated settlement giving Germany control of the Sudetenland In 1939, German troops entered the rest of Czechoslovakia and on Hitler’s demand the state was dismembered With the destruction of Czechoslovakia, Germany attained lands it never controlled before Hitler was not satisfied Ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland greeting Hitler as he crossed the border

Kristallnacht “The Night of Broken Glass” Where did this pogram get it’s name? Thousands of Jewish synagogues and homes were damaged or destroyed Windows of Jewish businesses were smashed What were the reasons? Herschel Grynszpan shot a German official-good excuse for assaulting the Jews To show their hatred of the Jews Nazis thought it would correct the economic injustices in Germany An essential step to prepare for a profitable war

Kristallnacht “The Night of Broken Glass” Germans response? Many civilians joined in Others disapproved it Some Germans thought the pogram was disruptive, and it made too big of a mess Jews response? Approximately three hundred thousand Jews left Germany and went to other countries (Poland, the Netherlands and France)

The Expansion of the Concentration Camp System How did Kristallnacht lead to the expansion of the camps? Nazi authorities sent 26 thousand men into concentration camps and killed another 100 The men from the Kristallnacht pogram were the first German Jews arrested only for being Jewish Buchenwald-Jews arrested at Kristallnacht line up for role call

Dachau concentration camp The Expansion of the Concentration Camp System How did the camps reflect the regime’s ideological goals? A place to put “troublemakers” and rejuvenation of law and order Centralization of power under the nazis did not lessen the pain and suffering of its targets Routinization-authorities were more aggressive/”gung ho” with their arrests Dachau concentration camp