1. Hitler's Rise to Power

2. Why were German’s so eager to follow and believe Hitler? 1. The Treaty of Versailles 2. Germany’s Economic Problems: Inflation 3. Depression and Unemployment 4. Political Instability

3. ‘ Believe me, our misery will increase! The government itself is the biggest swindler and crook. People are starving on millions of marks! We will no longer submit! We want a dictatorship!’

4. As conditions in Germany worsened, people were willing to listen to extremist voices of the Nazi’s Government should be run by the military and the wealthy Industry should be privately owned Democratic government should be outlawed Activities of foreigners and Jews should be severely restricted (due to the belief that they were the cause of economic problems)

5. Once in power, Hitler: Banned Jews from government jobs, banking jobs, broadcasting, news and entertainment. Jews were banned from stores and had their homes and property taken away. 1935: Nuremberg Laws passed. Laws took away the citizenship and civil rights of all Jews in Germany Illegal for Jews to marry non-Jews Could not go to school, own public land, associate with non Jews, or go to public German areas. (Libraries, bank, park, museums) Many Jews tried to escape Germany at this time.

6. Albert Einstein escapes Nazi Germany

7. Hitler rounded up Jews and put them in Ghetto’s and concentration camps. Concentration camps were prison camps where Jews and all other political prisoners were forced into slave labour The German SS (secret police) were able to watch the Jews and make sure they weren’t mingling with the German population. Blacks, homosexuals, people with mental disabilities were also among others placed in concentration camps.

8. Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) 1938 young Polish Jew shot German official 7000 Jewish shops were looted by Germans 20 000 Jews were arrested The men were also ordered to arrest as many Jews as the local jails would hold Expulsion of Polish Jews More than 12,000 Polish-born Jews were expelled from Germany on Hitler's orders. They were ordered to leave their homes in a single night, and were only allowed one suitcase per person to store their belongings. As the Jews were taken away, their remaining possessions were seized by both the Nazi authorities and by their neighbors.

9. Jewish people being captured by the SS

14. MAUS: A Survivors Tail -Biography presented as a graphic novel -Recounts the struggle of Spiegelman's father to survive the Holocaust as a Polish Jew and draws largely on his recollections of his experiences. -All people are presented as anthropomorphic animals.