Transcript Mein Kampf - Tanque Verde Unified School District

Adolf Hitler
World History Notes
I. Adolf Hitler
A. 1919 joined German Worker’s Party
B. 1921 became the leader of the party
because of his oratorical skills,
1. Demagogue: a person who gains power and
popularity by arousing the emotions, passions,
and prejudices of the people.
C. 1921 changed the name to the National
Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP)
Nazi Party
D. 1923 Nazis failed to overthrow the government,
Hitler thrown in jail for 8 months
1. Mein Kampf (1923)- My Struggle
a. Written in prison
b. Germans were the “master race” (Aryans)
c. His views of Jews made very clear
i. Compared to animals: wolves,
beasts, horses, rats, apes
ii. Made statements that Jews would
destroy the Aryan people and culture
and/or take it over and make them
slaves
iii. “If the Jews were alone in this
world, they would stifle in filth and
offal; they would try to get ahead
of one another in hate-filled
struggle and exterminate one
another”
iv. “wherever he [a Jew] appears,
the host people dies out after a
shorter or longer period.”
II. Nazi platform
A. Racism: a belief that one’s own racial or national
group is superior to others
1. Hitler and the Nazis believed Arayns were
biologically superior
B. Nationalism: the belief that your national culture
and interests are superior to any other
C. lebensraum: living space for the superior Aryan
race, the right to take land from others to create
that living space
D. Totalitarianism: one absolute leader of Germany
(Hitler called der fuhrer)
E. Antisemitism: discrimination against or prejudice
or hostility toward Jews
III. Rise in Power
A. 1929-1933 Nazis use propaganda and
Hitler’s oration ability to rise in power,
appeal to the common people and gain
popularity
B. 1932 Hitler runs for president
C. 1933 Hitler appointed Chancellor of
Germany
D. Terror, Legislation, and Propaganda
1. people were afraid to go against the Nazis and
were punished if they did
2. legislation: laws
a. laws were enacted to make Jews not
citizens and to give the Nazi officers the
power to punish people
3. propaganda: information, ideas, or rumors
deliberately spread widely to help or harm a
person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
a. Hitler’s youth programs
b. posters and speeches
c. censorship