Warm-Up (Today we will not share our answers, but you will need to write down a response) Have you ever done something to be accepted by others, even if you knew that it wasn’t the right think to do? Has your mind ever been changed because someone persuaded you to think differently?

Hitler & the Nazi’s

Review… Why was post World War I Germany so angry? How was it the right environment for someone like Adolf Hitler to rise to power?

Adolf Hitler Born in Austria in 1889 Dropped out of school at an early age to pursue a career in the fine arts Was described as an angry child and was a strong believer in German nationalism early on

Unsuccessful and living in homeless shelters, he joined the German army during WWI Was shocked and angry when Germany surrendered and thought the Treaty of Versailles was degrading Stays in Germany and joins the German Workers Party

The German Worker’s Party Founder Anton Drexler was anti- Semitic and a German nationalist and greatly influenced Hitler Hitler designed the party banner Replaced Drexel only after 2 years Announcing revolution against a German official, Hitler was arrested and served 9 months in prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf

What did the Nazi party believe? A Strong Germany Lebensraum Fuhrer Social Darwinism Autarky Communists & Jews must be destroyed

Hitler is elected as chancellor in 1933 Soon after being elected he suspends the legislative body’s rights and gives all powers to himself He then intimidated all other political parties to disband

1935- introduced the Nuremberg Laws which defined a "Jew" as anyone with three or four grandparents who were Jewish, regardless of whether the person considered themselves Jewish or observed the religion

Hitler also targeted handicapped children and adults Homosexuals- if in the camps, they were forced to wear a pink triangle to announce that they were ‘diseased’, according to the Nazi’s Jews were required to carry identity cards and were outcast from all parts of German society

Kristallnacht- “The Night of Broken Glass” November 1938, the Nazi party wiped out Jewish homes, synagogues, schools, and businesses 100 were murdered 30,000 Jews were captured and sent to concentration camps- The Holocaust had started

What is propaganda?

Hitler created a branch of government that focused on creating Nazi propaganda and eliminating anything “un- German” Joseph Goebbels is put in charge of Nazi propaganda

“The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.” ~Mein KaMpf

Let’s take a look…