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Lisa Hyndman

Hitler Nazi Germany
Germany Post WWI -

Adolf Hitler -

served as a dispatch runner/soldier in WWI - sense of German nationalism
joined German Workers' Party(right-wing extreme nationalist party in Munich) --> National Socialist German Worker's Party(NSDAP or Nazi)
- Own police force - SA
March on Berlin to overthrow Weimer Republic - failure - sentenced to 5 years of prison
Mein Kampf - "My struggle"
- autobiographical account of his movement and its underlying ideaology(extreme german nationalism, irulent anti-semetism, and vicious anticommunism - Social Darwinism)
- Lebensraum - "living space", secure authoritarian leadership over the masses through expansion

Rise of the Nazi Party -

became largest party within the Reichstag
President Hindenburg allowed Hitler to become chancellor and to form a a new government

Nazi Germany - totalitarian state

Enabling Acts - Hitler no longer needed the Reichstag of President for legal actions - Hitler became a dictator appoined by the parliamentary body
concentration camps established, trade unions were dissolved, all political parties except the Nazis were abolished
Jews purged
"Germany Awake" - Nazi slogan, Nazis offered a national awakening
SA --> SS under Heinrich Himmler, controlled all of the regular and secret police
- two idealogies: terror(repression and murder) and ideology
Nuremburg Laws - stripped Jews of their rights and citizenship, prohibited marraige and sexual intercourse with anyone Jewish, Jewish was considered a race instead of religion
Kristallnact - night of shattered glass, burned down Jewish synagogues, Jewish businessed were destroyed, and Jews were killed or sent to concentration camps
- lead to more extreme acts - Jews barred from all public buildings and prohibited from owning, managing, or working in retail stores
Women - bearers of children, destined to be wives and mothers