Totalitarianism and World War II
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Totalitarianism and World War II
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Totalitarianism and World War II. Hitler’s Long Range Plans. Hitler’s view of history. All history is about _____________... Volksgemeinschaft Overturning Versailles Solving the “Jewish Question” Finding Lebensraum in the east for the German people. . 1933-1936. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Totalitarianism and World War II
Hitler’s Long Range Plans
• Hitler’s view of history. All history is about _____________...
• Volksgemeinschaft• Overturning Versailles• Solving the “Jewish Question”• Finding Lebensraum in the east for
the German people.
1933-1936
• 1933- Withdrawal from the the League of Nations
• 1935- Begin rearmament and universal conscription
• Aid to Spanish fascists, Remilitarize the Rhineland, Rome-Berlin Axis
1937-1939
• Spring 38-Anschluss with Austria• Fall 38-Sudetenland crisis and
Munich Conference• Spring 39-Invasion of
Czechoslovakia, agitation against Poland
• Allies guarantee Polish security
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
September 1, 1939
Division of Poland between USSR and Germany
Blitzkrieg on Norway and Denmark (April 1940):
Paratroopers
The Blitzkrieg: Stuka (Sturzkampfflugzeuge)
Blitzkrieg: “Panzer” is short for Panzerkampfwagen
(armored fighting-wagon).
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Attack on French (May, 1940) Note the tanks and Stukas in the last few minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkG0KqlMnJI&feature=related
Air attack on Crete (May, 1941) Paratroopers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIyRk33pf30
Cauldron Battles: How they work…
Blitzkrieg on Holland, Belgium, and France (May 10 1940)
Creating a “Cauldron” of French and British Troops at Dunkirk
German soldiers in Holland (May 1940)
1940
Battle of Britain
Hitler invades “the center of Judeo-Bolshevism” in June, 1941
More Cauldron Battles…
“General Winter” stops the Germans
Fighting for oil in the south of Russia
1942: Stalin’s Order 227 “Not One Step Back!”
• NKVD (Secret Communist Police)
Video Clip—Blocking Units
Stalin’s “Not One Step Back” order (#227)
Battle of Stalingrad
Fighting for the Factories
1942 and today: The Factories are still monuments
Resistance by Germans against the Nazis
Racism in propaganda:
Anti-Japanese
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Black racism
The Logical result of Racism: Genocide and the Holocaust
Japanese belief in Racial superiority
Rape of Nanjing Executing Allied POWs
American mistreatment of Japanese, on the battlefield and off
Einsatzgruppen(Operation-Groups)in Russia June 1941
Babi Yar September 1941
Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942
Crematorium ‘42
D-Day June 6 1944
Nazi fanatics defending Normandy
Surrender
The Soviet “Steamroller” in 1944
1945: Nazis defend Germany with old men…
…and middle-schoolers
Propaganda encourages Germans to “Stand and Fight”
Die Deutsche Wochenschau (German newsreel from March,
1945.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEU5xVxz94o&feature=related
April 30, 1945 Hitler Commits Suicide
Victory over the Fascists!
The End
