4.4 one people, one nation, one leader

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4.4 One people, one nation, one leader

Part 2

At the end of this lesson...

• You will be able to explain what the Nazis thought about the Jews and what the consequences of this were.  
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What is a totalitarian state?

1. A state where you totally think for yourself
2. The state controls the way you behave and think.
3. A different word for a democratic state.

Who is this man?

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Heinrich Himmler
3. Ernst Röhm
4. Joseph Goebbels

New Subject Matter

Make notes!

Antisemitism

• The Nazis see people with blue eyes and blonde hair as the best kind of race: the Aryan race (Ubermenschen)
• Most other races and people are inferior to them: Untermenschen. They see Jews as the worst of them. 
• They are antisemetic, but they are not the first.

Excerpt from Mein Kampf

There are people who are able to penetrate other nations. They are like bees, biting at petals to gain entrance to flowers. These people have no place of their own but are able to create their own state, by doing this. There is one type of people and they are like a parasite. They cause each and every honest human to suffer: Jews.

Laws

• After years of being degraded and being attacked in the streets, the Jews have now become second class citizens thanks to the Nuremberg Laws (1935)
• They gave information about how much ''Jewish blood'' someone had running through their veins. 
• Jewish people lost  a lot of their rights and were not allowed to marry people who were not Jewish. 

Night of  Broken Glass

• In 1938 17 year old Herschel Grynszpan schot a Nazi diplomat out of protest. 
• The Nazi's use this excuse to start the Night of Broken Glass (kristallnacht). 

What were the consequences of the rise of the NSDAP for the Jews?

National succes

• Even with all the terror and oppression, Hitler's popularity rises during the 1930s.
• The economic crisis is kept at bay and unemployment reduces. 
• Building ''autobahnen'', Reich labour service, military conscription.