National Socialism

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National socialism

National socialism

Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Wille, Ein Führer

Ein Volk

* One 'race' -> Aryans

* Blond hair and blue eyes

* Not be weakend by mixing with 'lower races'

* Racism and anti-semitism -> hatred of jews

Ein Reich

* 1 empire for all German Aryans

* Lebensraum in the East

* Offensive war

* Glorified military life -> Militarism

Ein Wille

* Totalitarian state

= Think and do what the government wants

* Gestapo (secret police) and SA (knokploeg)

* Indoctrination -> Brainwash

Indoctrination -> totalitarian state

* Censorship

* Schoolbooks

* Hitlerjugend

- Preperation to be a soldier

* Bund Deutscher Mädel

- Preperation housewife

Ein Führer

* One leader

* One unity

* Absolut power

Make the assignments of paragraph 3.1

Assignment 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and13

Background information

* Angry about Treaty of Versailles

* Crisis due to the reparations payments

* Little confidence in the democracy -> difficult to deal with the problems

Adolf Hitler

* 1889-1945

*  Painter, soldier and party leader

* NSDAP

NSDAP 

* National socialist German Workers Party

- End the crisis

- unemployment

- propaganda

* 1932 largest party

*  1933 Hitler prime minister

The Reichstag fire

* Hitler blamed the communists

* Maart 1933

*New Law:  Enablin Act

- Rule without a parliament

- Hitler absolute power

* Threatening and imprisoning members of parliament

Live in Nazi Germany

* Concentration camps

* Political opponents

* Violence (gestapo en SA)

Pleased with Hitler?

* Improved the economy

- stopping war reparations payments

* Expanding the army

- Unimployment fell fast due to war industry