C9S3: Hitler and Nazi Germany Section Preview: Hitler’s totalitarian state was widely accepted, but German Jews and minorities were persecuted. What does it mean to be persecuted?

C9S3: Hitler and Nazi Germany Define: Nazi Reichstag Concentration camp Identify: Adolf Hitler Heinrich Himmler

C9S3: Hitler and Nazi Germany Hitler and his Views Born 4/20/1889 in Austria Rejected by Vienna fine arts academy Develops ideas: Racism Anti-Semitism Need for struggle

C9S3: Hitler and Nazi Germany Hitler and his Views Served 4 years in WWI Took control of German Workers Party in 1921 Created a militia called the SA, Storm Troops, or Brownshirts Wrote a book called Mein Kampf (My Struggle) while in prison

C9S3: Hitler and Nazi Germany Hitler and his Views Rise of Nazism Expanded his Nazi party to become the largest party in the Reichstag People all began to look to Hitler for leadership President Hindenburg made Hitler chancellor and let him create a new government

C9S3: Hitler and Nazi Germany Hitler and his Views Rise of Nazism Passed the Enabling Act to ignore the constitution Nazis took control of the country, purged Jews from offices Jews were sent to concentration camps 1934: Hindenburg died, Hitler became the Fuhrer or “Leader” of the nation

C9S3: Hitler and Nazi Germany The Nazi State: Explain how the Nazi state changed life for the following: Factors: Changes: Economics Women Jews