The Start of the end.
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It all started started on January 30 of 1933 with Hitler becoming chancellor of Germany. The Nazis didn't begin their murder program immediately they first spread their ideology of their views on other people who weren't like them and mostly on Jews. They started having boycotts and restrictions of the Jews from society and political for isolation, but at first it wasn't looked at as a big deal or anything that would potentially become what it did.
Authorities also targeted other groups, Gypsies, the disabled,some of the Slavic peoples. Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, homosexuals. Hitler established a Reich Ministry of Public. The point was to ensure that the Nazi message was successfully communicated through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press. There were several audiences for Nazi propaganda. Germans were reminded of the struggle against foreign enemies and Jewish subversion. Propaganda campaigns created an atmosphere tolerant of violence against Jews, |
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“What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
What did it mean to be a Nazi?
Nazi- a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.
Many people supported Nazis without knowing. People went to work everyday without knowing that simply working at a factory they had been working at for years was helping the Nazis and all that they were doing to the Jews. Kids who as smart and grown up as they think they might be were brain washed everyday by teachers, random people they met and even their parents. Of course as a child anything that people tell you, you believe is true.
Although there were a lot of people who blindly supported the Nazis there were also many people who full heartedly supported the Nazis. Hitler not only had enough support among the German people to take power and hold it for twelve years while effecting massive change in all levels of society, but he retained this support for several years during a war which began to go very wrong. The Germans fought until even Hitler had conceded the end and killed himself, whereas just a generation earlier they had expelled their Kaiser and changed their government without any enemy troops on German soil. Hitler was able to present an image of himself as a superhuman, even god like figure. He wasn’t portrayed as a politician, as Germany had had enough of them, instead he was seen as above politics. He was all things to a lot of people – although a set of minorities soon found that Hitler didn’t just not care about their support, but wanted to persecute, even exterminate them instead – and by changing his message to suit different audiences, but stressing himself as the leader at the top, he began to bind the support of disparate groups together, building enough to rule, modify and then doom Germany.
What did it mean to be a Nazi?
Nazi- a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.
Many people supported Nazis without knowing. People went to work everyday without knowing that simply working at a factory they had been working at for years was helping the Nazis and all that they were doing to the Jews. Kids who as smart and grown up as they think they might be were brain washed everyday by teachers, random people they met and even their parents. Of course as a child anything that people tell you, you believe is true.
Although there were a lot of people who blindly supported the Nazis there were also many people who full heartedly supported the Nazis. Hitler not only had enough support among the German people to take power and hold it for twelve years while effecting massive change in all levels of society, but he retained this support for several years during a war which began to go very wrong. The Germans fought until even Hitler had conceded the end and killed himself, whereas just a generation earlier they had expelled their Kaiser and changed their government without any enemy troops on German soil. Hitler was able to present an image of himself as a superhuman, even god like figure. He wasn’t portrayed as a politician, as Germany had had enough of them, instead he was seen as above politics. He was all things to a lot of people – although a set of minorities soon found that Hitler didn’t just not care about their support, but wanted to persecute, even exterminate them instead – and by changing his message to suit different audiences, but stressing himself as the leader at the top, he began to bind the support of disparate groups together, building enough to rule, modify and then doom Germany.
Questions-
(after looking through the information you should be able to answer these questions)
1. Who were the Nazis mainly trying to eliminate?
2. Who was the leader of the Nazis?
3. When did Hitler become chancellor of Germany?
4. What were the first measures taken by the Nazis against the Jews?
5. How many people died in World War II (aprox.)
6. What were the anti-Jew party called?
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