Transcript of Hitler's Rise to Power
- Hitlers Rise To Power Britt Parker
- Time Line 1933 January 30th Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of
Germany. March 12th First Concentration Camp opened at Oranienburg
outside Berlin. March 23rd Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial
power. April 1st Nazi Boycott of Jewish owned shops. May 10th Nazis
burn books in Germany. July 14th Nazi party declared only party in
Germany. October 14th Germany quits the League of Nations. 1934
June 30th The "Night of Long Knives. July 25th Nazis murder
Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss. August 2nd German President
Hindenburg dies. August 19th Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of
Germany. 1935 March 16th Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles by
introducing military conscription. September 15th German Jews
stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws. 1936 February 10th The
German Gestapo is placed above the Law. March 7th German troops
occupy the Rhineland. August 1st Olympic games begin in Berlin.
1937 June 11th Soviet leader Stalin begins a purge of Red Army
Generals. November 5th Hitler reveals War plans during Hossbach
Conference. 1938 March 12/13th Germany announces "Anschluss"
(Union) with Austria. August 12th German military mobilises.
September 30th British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler
at Munich. October 15th German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech
Government resigns. November 9th The Night of Broken Glass.
- 1939 January 30th Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag
speech. March 15/16th Nazis take Czechoslovakia. March 28th Spanish
Civil War ends. May 22nd Nazis sign "Pact of Steel" with Italy.
August 23rd Nazis and Soviets sign Pact. August 25th Britain and
Poland sign a mutual Assistance Treaty. August 31st British Fleet
mobilises; Civilian evacuations begin from London. September 1st
Nazis invade Poland. September3rd Britain, France, Austria and New
Zealand declare War on Germany. September 4th British Royal Air
Force attacks the German Navy. September 5th United States
proclaims neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in
Poland. September 10th Canada declares War on Germany; Battle of
the Atlantic begins. Time Line September 17th Soviets invade
Poland. September 27th Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard
Heydrich becomes leader of the new Reich Main Security office.
September 29th Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. In October Nazis
begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany. November 8th
Assassination attempt on Hitler fails. November 30th Soviets attack
Finland. December 14th Soviet Union expelled from the League of
Nations
- History
- Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 in a small town called
Braunau Am Inn, Austria. His dad was Customs official, Alois
Hitler. And his mom, Klara Hitler, was Aloiss third wife. Alois
changed his name from Schick Gruber to Hitler in 1876, because he
thought it would be easier for the people to say (Heil Schick
Gruber- Heil Hitler).
- Young Adolf attended church regularly, sang in the local choir
and spent hours playing cowboys and Indians. He grew up with a bad
name at school and left before completing his high school terms,
because he wanted to be an artist or an architect.
- During his lifetime, Hitler was very secretive about his
background. He never give his fathers real occupation. He said he
was a postal official. He didnt like his relatives to come near him
or visit.
- History
- Hitlers mom died of cancer when he was nineteen. Hitler loved
his mother so much. Her Jewish doctor said, I have never witnessed
a closer attachment. Hitler carried a picture of her down to his
last days in the bunker.
- Hitler had few intrests in the world so World War I was a big
welcome mat which gave him a purpose to live. Hitler went to
Munich, Germany and when World War I began in 1914, he volunteered
for service in the German army. Hitler was moved up in rank for
bravery twice, but only rose to the rank of corporal. When World
War I ended Hitler was in a hospital recovering from temporary
blindness possibly caused by a poison gas attack.
- The Treaty of Versailles that ended the war, stripped Germany
of much of its territory, forced the country to disarm, and ordered
Germany to pay huge reparations. When the army returned to Germany
the country was bankrupt and millions of people were
unemployed.
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- In 1920 Hitler became a Nazi. The Nazi party called for all
Germans, including those of other countries. They wanted to unite
into one nation. The Nazis also wanted to cancel they Treaty of
Versailles. Hitler then became leader of the Nazi party and built
up membership quickly (mostly because of his powerful speaking
ability).
- Adolf Hitler endorsed the fall of the Weimar Republic, and
declared at a public rally on October 30, 1923 that he was prepared
to march on Berlin to rid the government of the Communists and the
Jews. Hitler then held a rally at a Munich beer hall, and
proclaimed a revolution. The following day, he led 2,000 armed
"brown-shirts" in an attempt to take over the Berlin
government.
- This was resisted and put down by the police, after more than a
dozen were killed in the fighting. Hitler suffered a broken and
dislocated arm in battle, was arrested, and was imprisoned at
Landsberg. He received a five-year sentence. Hitler served nine
months of his five year term.
The Rise of Hitler
- Dictator
- In 1930, a worldwide depression hit Germany, and Hitler
promised to get rid of Jews and Communists in Germany. Plus he
promised to reunite the German speaking part of Europe. In July,
1932, the Nazis received about 40% of the vote and became the
strongest party in Germany. On January 30,1933, President Paul von
Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Once in this
position, Hitler moved quickly toward attaining a dictatorship.
When von Hindenburg died in 1934, Hitler already had control of
Germany.
- Now with Hitler in power, war with the Jews was now a bit
stronger. In April 1933, Jews were banished from government jobs, a
quota was established banning Jews from university, and a boycott
of Jewish shops was made. Everyday more and more Jews were
harassed. Stores were destroyed, synagogues were burned, and twenty
thousand Jews were arrested. The riots came to be known as
Kristallnacht - the Night of Glass, for all the broken glass in the
Stores owned by Jews.
- Beginning of the Holocaust
- All his life Adolf Hitler was known by an obsession with the
Jews, and he had always been straightforward about his plans. His
dream of a "pure" empire would tolerate no Jews, and he announced
at many occasions the "annihilation of the Jews" living in the
territory under his control.
- Hitlers very first political statement reads ".. we have no
intention of being emotional anti-Semites who want to create the
atmosphere of a pogrom. Instead, our hearts are filled with an
inexorable determination to attack the evil at its roots and to
extirpate it root and branch. In order to reach our goal every
means will be justified, even if we have to make a pact with the
devil."
- Hitler was fully responsible for the mass executions in Poland
in 1939 and 1940. He was also actively took place in setting up
plans for a Jewish reservation in Poland. He was continually
preoccupied with further deportations and deportation plans.
- Concentration Camps
- In Germany, concentration camps were set up after 1933 to hold
the Jews, Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others. During
world war II extermination, or death, camps were established for
the sole purpose of killing men, women, and children brutally.
- In the most well known camps - Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor
and Majdanek in Poland, Buchenwald and Dachau in Germany,more than
6 million people, mostly Jews and Polish, were killed in gas
chambers. Millions of others were also interned during the war, and
a large proportion died of gross mistreatment, malnutrition, and
disease.
- In Dachau, one of the largest camps in Germany proper
crematoria were constructed for disposing the corpses. There was
also gas c hambers constructed at Dachau, however, there is no
evidence to th is point that they were ever used for extermination.
Possibly, the cre matoria were us ed for disposing of the corpses
of those who perishe d from other causes. There were other
execution devices at Dachau, such as a gallows many think prisoners
were executed or disposed there.
- Hitlers Suicide
- With Germany lying in ruins after six devastating years at war,
and with defeat approaching, the Nazi dictator decided to take his
own life. But before doing so, he wanted to thank the one who'd
remained completely loyal to him until the very end. Early on the
morning on April 29, 1945, in a civil ceremony in his bunker,
Hitler married his mistress of many years, Eva Braun.
- The next day at a little after 3:30 p.m., they bit into thin
glass vials of cyanide. As he did so, Hitler also shot himself in
the head with a 7.65 mm Walther pistol.
- The Hitlers were both sitting on a small sofa, Eva on the left,
Adolf to her right. Eva's body slumped away from Adolf's. Hitler
appeared to have shot himself in the right temple. The blood
dripping from Adolf's head and chin had made a large stain on the
right arm of the sofa and was making a puddle carpet. Eva had no
visible physical wounds, they assumed she had poisoned herself
also.
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- Adolf Hitler, murderer of millions, or known as master of
destruction and organized insanity. Hitler was seized by an
obsession with the Jews all his life. The Nazi Fhrer had always
been straightforward about his plans - his dream of a racially
"pure" empire would tolerate no Jews. He announced at many
occasions the "annihilation of the Jews" living in the territory
under his control.
Hitlers Destruction of Jews
- In Hitler's mind, murdering millions of Jews could only be
accomplished under the confusion of war, from the beginning he was
planning a war.
- The European Jews were the primary victims of Adolf Hitler.In
1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that
would be occupied by Germany during the war. By 1945 two out of
every three European Jews had been killed.
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- This is the map of concentration camp locations. It was used my
the Nazi party to move prisoners from camp to camp called death
marches. Hundreds of Jews died in these death marches. Many Nazis
were also killed by being trampled by the Jews or Communist.
- The largest death marches took place in the winter of
1944-1945. About one in four Jews died on the way.
- The Nazis often killed large groups of prisoners before,
during, or after marches. During one march, 7,000 Jewish prisoners,
were moved from camps in the Danzig region. On the ten-day march,
700 were murdered. Those still alive when the marchers reached the
shores of the sea were driven into the water and shot.
Map of Nearby Concentration Camps
- After Effects of the War
- Germany had to pay for the reparations that Hitler caused, most
of the reparations included Germany giving up their land.
- Technology advanced so much after World War II.
- Hitler caused the deaths of thousands and thousands of Jews,
Communists, and many other innocent lives.
- Hitler set up awful, deadly concentration camps that was the
main cause of these deaths.
- If Hitler was not dictator there would be no Holocaust, and
those innocent peoples lives would be spared.
- Random Facts
- Hitler's 3rd grade teacher commented that Hitler was...bad
tempered and fancied himself as a leader.
- Adolf Hitler had an obsession for hands.
- His hero was Alexander the Great.
- The New York phone book had 22 listings of Hitler before World
War II and 0 after.
- Hitlers middle name was Elizabeth.
- Hitlers first love was to a Jewish girl.
- Hitler had Parkinson's disease in his left hand.
- Hitler fell in love with his niece Geli.
- And ordered her around to a point of her shooting herself
through the heart.
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