1. PHASES IN THE HISTORY OF THE THIRD REICH Spring-Autumn 1933: The “National Revolution” crushes all opposition, largely through SA violence. 1934-36: Consolidation: Hitler works closely with conservative elites to promote rearmament and economic recovery. 1937-39: Radicalization: Hitler promotes distinctively Nazi objectives in racial and foreign policy, purging all conservatives who refuse to go along. 1939-42: Blitzkrieg, i.e., “lightning war,” leads to a spectacular string of victories. 1943-45: Total War.

2. “None shall go hungry! None shall freeze! Winter Aid of the German People, 1934/35”

3. Unemployed youth were required to join the “National Labor Service” to drain swamps or build the Autobahn

4. “A Simple Stew, Even for the Reich Chancellor” (1935)

5. “Help Hitler build: Buy German goods” (mid-1930s)

6. “Strength through Joy: Now you too can travel!” “Strength through Joy Car”

7. “Merry Christmas” (postcard from December 1934) “A Child’s Gaze” (postcard from 1937/38)

8. “Youth serves the Führer. All ten- year-olds into the Hitler Youth”

9. “National Sports Day, League of German Girls, 23 September 1934” “Build youth hostels and homes” (1938/39)

10. A proud bearer of the “Mother’s Cross,” introduced in 1938

11. “This congenitally ill person costs the National Community 60,000 marks to support him for life. Racial comrades, that is your money too.” (1937)

12. The Nordic ideal of beauty, painted by Oskar Just and Wolfgang Willrich.

13. Subgroups of the Aryan race (Hitler was “Alpine-Dinaric”)

14. Map of the arms race (1934)

15. Germany restored universal conscription in March 1935 New draftees report in 1935 How they looked a few months later

16. New Luftwaffe bombers and Wehrmacht tanks on display for the Nazi Party “Congress of Freedom,” Nuremberg, September 1935. Rearmament helped Germany to achieve full employment by 1936…

17. The Nuremberg Laws, Sep. 1935

18. Hitler at the height of his popularity, Berlin, January 1936