1. Aim: Why didn’t the German people stop Hitler?
Do Now: Take out your circle maps from yesterday and complete add to the democratic map.

2. How did life in Nazi Germany differ from life in a democracy?
Democratic Country

3. Life under Nazi Party rule
Totalitarian Rule
1 – Nuremberg Laws – laws that stripped German Jews of their rights to freedom, property & life.
2 – Mandatory military service for all males, children were forced to join Hitler Youth so they could be brainwashed.
3 – Government controls all media. All Anti-Nazi ideas were illegal & punishable by law.
4 – Important members of German society were forced to join the Nazi Party & contribute money.
Secret Police
1 – Gestapo – the German secret police; used thousands of informers to intimidate Nazi opponents into silence.
2 – Used the Gestapo to arrest & execute political opponents.
Social Pressure
1 – tremendous desire for people to “fit in” with their fellow citizens. Many Germans were unwilling to risk their lives going against the government.

4. good people must remain uninvolved.”
F.S.Q. – in your notebooks
“For evil to succeed;
good people must remain uninvolved.”
Why is this quote true in the case of the Nazis and the Jewish people?