1. 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?

2. Hitler & the Nazi’s

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

12. 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

14. What is propaganda?

15. 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

16. “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

17. Let’s take a look…