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Life in Nazi Germany
What was life like in Nazi Germany?
Hitler Consolidates Power
• President Hindenberg dies in 1934 – Hitler names himself President
• Hitler takes the title Fuhrer (Supreme Leader)
• Hitler bans all other political parties – has his opponent arrested
• Hitler forms the SS an elite black-uniformed unit that eliminated Hitler’s
enemies. The SS was led by Heinrich Himmler
•A branch of the SS was a secret police force
known as the Gestapo
•Gestapo terrorized & shocked people into
obedience
Ministry of Propaganda
•1933: Hitler appoints Joseph Goebbels as
Minister of Propaganda
•Goebbels orders the burning of books
written by Jews or anti-Nazi authors
•Children joined the Hitler Youth or League of
German Girls
•Propaganda is used against the Jews & other
perceived enemies of the Reich
Nazi Propaganda #1
A German children’s book titled:
The Poisonous Mushroom
1. Describe cover of the book and
the Jewish person in the book.
2.
What is the author of this book
trying to teach German
children?
Nazi Propaganda #2
Translation: The Jewish worm
makes his move
1. Describe the worm, what are
in his eyes?
2. What is the poster trying to
say?
The Nuremberg Laws
• 1935: two sets of laws were passed in Germany defining race & citizenship
• 1) Protection of German Blood & Honor – 1935
• Racial categories established: German, Mischling (grade 1 & 2) and Jews
•The laws would forbid the
marriage of Jews to non-Jews
•They also forbid the marriage of
Mischlings
•Jews also couldn’t display the Reich
or National Flag
2) Reich Citizenship Law - 1935
• Article 1 – German citizens have
obligations to the Reich
• Article 2 – Only citizens of the
Reich have complete rights
Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass”
• 1938: a 17-year old Jewish man avenges his father’s deportation to Poland
by shooting a German diplomat
• Nazi leaders respond by launching an attack against all Jews
• Goebbels authorizes the attacks, Himmler & SS carry out the attacks
• The SS attack Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues
• Homes are burned and thousands of Jews are arrested
• Nazis want to eliminate Jews from Germany
• Nazis begin to experiment with poison gas, first on disabled citizens and
eventually on Jews
Nazi Racial Purity – Film Clips: Amen directed by Costa-Gavras
1.
Why do you think Stephan Lux kills himself at a
League of Nations meeting?
2.
What were the Nazis doing to people with disabilities
in Germany?
3. What is the response of the Catholic Church to the
Nazi plan to eliminate “unproductive” citizens of the
Reich?
4.
How does the reaction of Captain Gerstein differ from
the rest of the SS officers?
5.
What do you think a “unit” is? Why do Hess & the
Nazis use that term unit?
6. What are conditions like on the trains?