Transcript Adolf Hitler Der Fuhrer: Real genius, or deranged madman

Caleb Floyd
Capstone 499
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Hitler’s Rise to Power
Hitler’s Political Power over Germany
Hitler’s Strategy
Hitler as a Military Leader
Hitler’s Military mistakes
Hitler’s Stature in History
Hitler’s Death
1930 Hitler makes an
alliance with Nationalist
Alfred Hugenberg
The alliance allowed Hitler
to seek support from
businesses and
industries who
controlled political funds
needed for his conquest
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1933 Hitler is offered the
chancellorship of
Germany
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1934 Hitler assumes
position of President as
well as Chancellor of
Germany
One man ruling a
nation
 Hitler was a great
Orator gaining the
people’s support
through political
speeches
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“His speeches were an
instrument of political
intoxication that inspired a
degree of fervor in his listeners
that seems to defy definition
and explanation. Hitler was a
master at the use of the spoken
word and a genius at the art of
manipulating mass propaganda
for his political ends. His
uncanny ability to appeal to the
subconscious and irrational
needs of his audience and to
solicit the desired response
made him a formidable political
figure.”
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Dismantling of the
Treaty of Versailles
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Hitler’s non-aggression
pact with Poland (1935)
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March 1935 Hitler no
longer honors the
Treaty of Versailles
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Believed Germany
needed to take its
place as a
“superpower” in the
world
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Began his first
conquest of
Lebensraum within
Germany
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March 1936 Hitler
deploys a small
German Army into the
Rhineland
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France and Great
Britain do nothing
giving Hitler a Political
Victory
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Czechoslovakia ( 1938)
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Poland (1939)
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Non-Aggression Pact
with Stalin (1939)
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Hitler saw himself as a
“Military Genius”
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Hitler’s “super mind”
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Technical expert
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Hitler’s “vision” of the
Germany fighting
machine
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Strong will
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Political
“manipulation”
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Hitler’s “super mind”
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Hitler’s lack of trust
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Hitler’s
“micromanagement”
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Hitler’s
“overconfidence”
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Hitler’s Strong will
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Hitler’s
“procrastination”
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Hitler’s strive for more
power led him to a
crucial decision
declaring war on
Russia
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front and Western
front was extremely
demanding for
Germany
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May 1940 Hitler issued
a “stop” order
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Allowing over 400,000
British and French
troops to retreat
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Why issue the order
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October 1942 Hitler
issued a “no retreat”
policy
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Holding Stalingrad at
all cost proved to be
detrimental
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Thousands of Germans
soldiers lost
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Extermination of the
Jews
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Over 6 million killed
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Auschwitz
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Einsatzgruppen
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Solely responsible for
WWII
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Responsible for the
Holocaust
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Responsible for the rise
of Germany in the early
1900’s
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United Germany by himself
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Made Germany the most
powerful and feared nation
by 1938
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Achieved many significant
victories for Germany
without firing a shot
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During the final days of
WWII Hitler committed
suicide; he fired a
bullet into his head
while concurrently
biting a cyanide
capsule
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Hitler’s Rise to Power
Hitler’s Political Power over Germany
Hitler’s Strategy
Hitler as a Military Leader
Hitler’s Military mistakes
Hitler’s Stature in History
Hitler’s Death
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