Transcript One Man`s Patriot is Another Man`s Terrorist.

One Man’s
Patriot is
Another Man’s
Terrorist.
Young Adolf
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Austria
Poor student
Artist
Rejected twice from The
Viennese School of Art
The Great War
• Corporal
• Escaped Death at
Ypres
• Dispatch Runner
• Sketched/Painted
WWI scenes
• Wounded in leg at the
Somme
• Temporarily blinded
by chlorine gas at
Ypres
Appalled at German Apathy and
Anti-War Sentiment
• Sight-seeing in Munich while recovering
• Blamed Jews
• Anti-war conspiracy involving Jews
became obsession
• “…invisible foes of the German people”
• “stabbed in the back”
Weimar Republic
• Weak fledgling
democracy
• Signed Treaty of
Versailles
• Run-Away Inflation
• Devaluation of Mark
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928):
Remember, It Is Just a Piece of Paper
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
Arbeiterpartei
• Nazi
• Romanticism, Idealism, Fascism
• Nietzsche’s concepts of “breeding
upwards” & Social Darwinism
• Nationalism (Fichte & Bismarck)
• Upper & Middle Class support
• Swastika
• Storm Troopers/Brownshirts
Putsch! (1923)
Mein Kampf
Great Depression
Impact of the Great Depression
Nazi Party Election Results
Date
May '24
Dec '24
May '28
Sept
'30
Votes
Percentage
Seats
in Reichstag
Background
1,918,300
6.5
32
Hitler in prison
907,300
3
14
Hitler is released from prison
810,100
2.6
12
6,409,600
18.3
107
After the financial crisis. NAZI’s
nd
become 2 largest in Reichstag
37.4
230
After Hitler’s failed candidacy for the
presidency
July '32
13,745,800
Nov '32
11,737,000
33.1
196
Mar '33
17,277,000
43.9
288
During Hitler's term as Chancellor of
Germany
Germany’s Path to Totalitarianism
• Paul van Hindenburg nominated Hitler
Chancellor (1/30/33)
• Hitler, a puppet? A good joke!
General Erich Ludendorf’s
Prediction (2/1/33)
By naming Hitler as Reichschancellor, you
have delivered up our holy Fatherland to
one of the greatest [rabblerousers] of all
time. I solemnly [predict] that this
accursed man will plunge our Reich into
the abyss and bring our nation into
inconceivable misery.
Reichstag Fire
Who Did It? Hmmm…
Enabling Act
(3/23/33)
Hindenburg Dies
• Appointed Fuhrer, Chancellor and
Commander in Chief… Busy Guy!
• Does this remind you of history repeating
itself?
Government’s New Role
• Supervise labor & business
– National Labor Front: organization for
workers & employers
• Unemployment
• German Culture & censorship
– Wagner, atheism/pantheism, Hitler’s Youth
• Nationalism & propaganda
Summer
Olympics ‘36
Nuremberg Laws (1935)
Nuremburg Laws
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Racial Identification
4 grandparents = German Blood
¾ grandparents Jewish = Jewish
Others = Jewish
Kristallnacht (11/9/38)
“Today Germany, Tomorrow the
World!”
• WWII Nazi Occupation of Europe
The Versailles Treaty
The League Of Nations Will Save
the World!
The League Looks Effective…
Rhineland (3.7.36)
• “The forty-eight hours after the march into
the Rhineland were the most nervewracking in my life.”
• “If the French had then marched into the
Rhineland, we would have had to
withdraw.”
Axis Powers (Oct. 1936)
The Pact of Steel!
Axis Test Their
Strength
(July 1936)
• Spanish Civil War
• Francisco Franco & the Nationalists
The Spanish Civil War
Guernica & Pablo Picasso
• Technique of Cubism
Anschluss
March 1938
Sudetenland
& the
Munich
Conference
(9/29/38)
• “How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that
we should be digging trenches…here
because of a quarrel in a faraway country
between people of whom we know
nothing.” ~Neville Chamberlain
“It is peace for our time!”
by Neville Chamberlain
Appeasement
Can I Just Have Czechoslovakia?
I just need to expand the Reich…
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Aug. 1939
Danzig: The Polish Corridor
Danzig and the Polish Corridor
The Phony Raid
Aug. 31, 1939
• Disguised as Polish Soldiers
• Seized German Radio Station
• Hmmm… why would Hitler create this
plot?
Blitzkrieg!
(9/1/39)
Tripartite Pact
What the heck…let’s add Japan
Holocaust
• Germany and its “allies”
during the War
• A German “New Order”
• Treatment of Occupied
Peoples
-- “Mongrelized peoples”
--Treatment of Slavs
• The importance of
“orderly reproduction” or
scientific breeding
Anti-Semitism
• Nuremburg Laws
• Warsaw Ghetto 10/40
• Einsatzgruppen
• Work Camps v. Death
Camps
• Final Solution &
Eichmann
Dachau
Arrival at Auschwitz
Empty Cans of Zyklon
B
Mounds of Shoes &
Clothes
Condemned to the
Showers
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 4/1943