Formation of Hitler’s Mind1. World War I experience

2.Hitler surrounded himself with alliesa. Rudolph Hess –

Nazi Party

Secretary

b. Max Aman – Press

Chief

c. Hermann Goering –

Nazi Air Ministerd. Joseph Goebbels –

Propaganda Minister

e. Heinrich Himmler –

Leader of SS

(Schutzstaffel)

f. Ernst Rohm –

Leader of SA

g. Konstantin von

Neurath – Foreign

Minister

replaced in 1937 by

Joachim von

Ribbentrop

h. Adolf Eichmann –

final solution to the

Jewish question

i. Rudolph Hoess –

Commander of

Auschwitz

Mein Kampf – My Struggle

1. Hitler wrote the book while in prison

2. It contains 4 main points

a. Gross Deutschland

b. Anschluss – Union with Austria

c. The Aryan Race

is the superior

race

-Aryans have

blond hair and

blue eyes

d. Use violence to achieve your goals

Implementing the Nazi Program

1. Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany in the

elections of January 1933

Hitler with Otto Von Bismark

Hitler with President Hindenburg

2. Germany is restricted by Versailles and

the Locarno Pact

Assignment: Election to Reichstag

1. Complete the worksheet

The 1933 Elections

1. Calls for new

elections to the

Reichstag

a. February 27, 1933

fire destroys the

German Parliament

b. Communists are

blamed

b. February 28, 1933, Hitler issues the

Emergency Decrees

1. rescinds the following:

a. expression and opinion

b. assembly and association

c. privacy of mail and telephone

2. increases the scope of the death

penalty to include treason

c. all communists are arrested – he now

has a majority in the Reichstag

d. March 23, 1933, Hitler passes the

Enabling Laws

1. transfers power from the Reichstag

to Hitler for the next 4 years

2. he gets this passed by a 2/3 majority

vote

3. Secret Police (Gestapo) terrorize

Germany

4. By July 1, 1933, the Nazi Party is the only

legal political party in Germany

Night of the Long Knives1. June 30, 1934,

Hitler turns on the

SA

2. Rohm and 5,000

SA members were

slaughtered by the

SS

a. Himmler convinced

Hitler to do this

Nuremberg Laws1. This law was passed on September 15,

1935

a. Deprives Jews and people of Jewish

blood their German Citizenship

b. Prohibits marriage and sexual

relationships between Jews and non-

Jews

c. Bands Aryans from employing Jewish

women

d. Jews are forced to wear the Star of

David

e. Name changes for men and women –

Sarah and Israel

Nuremberg Laws1. This law was passed on September 15, 1935

a. Deprives Jews and people of Jewish blood

their German Citizenship

b. Prohibits marriage and sexual relationships

between Jews and non-Jews

c. Bands Aryans from employing Jewish

women

d. Jews are forced to wear the Star of David

e. Name changes for men and women – Sarah

and Israel

Assignment: Kristallnacht

1. Read pages 696-697

2. Summarize

3. Complete “Voices from the Past”

page 697

Synagogues destroyed

Hitler marches through Europe1. Marches into the Rhineland on March 10,

1936

2. Hitler calls for Anschluss and invades Austria

a. invades in November 1937

b. Anschluss is a reality on March 14, 1938

Munich Conference1. September 29, 1938

2. Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain (Gr. Br.),

Daladier (France), Mackenzie King (Can)

3. They give Hitler the Sudetenland

4. On March 16, 1939, Adolf Hitler invades

all of Czechoslovakia

5. In the Summer of 1939, Hitler signs the

Nazi-Soviet Pact

a. Stalin and Hitler

b. Stalin gets Eastern Poland and Baltics

c. Hitler gets western Poland

d. Stalin stays neutral if war breaks out