Transcript Dictatorship and Genocide in Germanyx

Adolf Hitler was a veteran of the
First World War.
He hated the Treaty of Versailles.
He hated the Weimar Republic.
Hitler wanted a Third Reich; a
third, great German Empire.
By 1921, Hitler became the leader
of the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party or the NSDAP.
The Nazi Party was nationalistic,
militaristic, and anti-Semitic.
After an attempted uprising in Munich,
Hitler was imprisoned in 1923. In
prison, he wrote “Mein Kampf” or
“My Struggle”.
But as Germany sank further into
economic depression, Hitler’s promise
of a return to greatness increasingly
appealed to the German people.
By 1933, Hitler became the
chancellor of Germany. Within
weeks, Hitler was dictator of
Germany.
Immediately, Hitler set about
remaking Germany. He instituted
a series of anti-Jewish laws.
The Nazi assault on the Jewish people
culminated in Hitler’s “Final Solution”.
The Nazis stripped Jews of their
citizenship rights and deported
Jews to concentration camps or
death camps.
Hitler and the Nazis
blamed the
Jews for all of
Germany’s problems.
Hitler and the Nazis
wanted to
exterminate every Jew;
every Jewish man,
woman, and
child.
The Holocaust or the mass murder
of Jews under the Nazi regime from
1941 to 1945 decimated the Jewish
population of Europe.
The Nazis also sought a complete
domination of Europe and the
world.
While the British and French were
tired of war and willing to
initially appease the Nazis, the Nazi
invasion of Poland in 1939 led to
the start of the Second World War.
Nazi actions greatly harmed the
people of Europe. Death and
destruction lay in their wake.