Formation of Hitler’s Mind1. World War I experience
2.Hitler surrounded himself with alliesa. Rudolph Hess –
Nazi Party
Secretary
b. Max Aman – Press
Chief
c. Hermann Goering –
Nazi Air Ministerd. Joseph Goebbels –
Propaganda Minister
e. Heinrich Himmler –
Leader of SS
(Schutzstaffel)
f. Ernst Rohm –
Leader of SA
g. Konstantin von
Neurath – Foreign
Minister
replaced in 1937 by
Joachim von
Ribbentrop
h. Adolf Eichmann –
final solution to the
Jewish question
i. Rudolph Hoess –
Commander of
Auschwitz
Mein Kampf – My Struggle
1. Hitler wrote the book while in prison
2. It contains 4 main points
a. Gross Deutschland
b. Anschluss – Union with Austria
c. The Aryan Race
is the superior
race
-Aryans have
blond hair and
blue eyes
d. Use violence to achieve your goals
Implementing the Nazi Program
1. Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany in the
elections of January 1933
Hitler with Otto Von Bismark
Hitler with President Hindenburg
2. Germany is restricted by Versailles and
the Locarno Pact
Assignment: Election to Reichstag
1. Complete the worksheet
The 1933 Elections
1. Calls for new
elections to the
Reichstag
a. February 27, 1933
fire destroys the
German Parliament
b. Communists are
blamed
b. February 28, 1933, Hitler issues the
Emergency Decrees
1. rescinds the following:
a. expression and opinion
b. assembly and association
c. privacy of mail and telephone
2. increases the scope of the death
penalty to include treason
c. all communists are arrested – he now
has a majority in the Reichstag
d. March 23, 1933, Hitler passes the
Enabling Laws
1. transfers power from the Reichstag
to Hitler for the next 4 years
2. he gets this passed by a 2/3 majority
vote
3. Secret Police (Gestapo) terrorize
Germany
4. By July 1, 1933, the Nazi Party is the only
legal political party in Germany
Night of the Long Knives1. June 30, 1934,
Hitler turns on the
SA
2. Rohm and 5,000
SA members were
slaughtered by the
SS
a. Himmler convinced
Hitler to do this
Nuremberg Laws1. This law was passed on September 15,
1935
a. Deprives Jews and people of Jewish
blood their German Citizenship
b. Prohibits marriage and sexual
relationships between Jews and non-
Jews
c. Bands Aryans from employing Jewish
women
d. Jews are forced to wear the Star of
David
e. Name changes for men and women –
Sarah and Israel
Nuremberg Laws1. This law was passed on September 15, 1935
a. Deprives Jews and people of Jewish blood
their German Citizenship
b. Prohibits marriage and sexual relationships
between Jews and non-Jews
c. Bands Aryans from employing Jewish
women
d. Jews are forced to wear the Star of David
e. Name changes for men and women – Sarah
and Israel
Assignment: Kristallnacht
1. Read pages 696-697
2. Summarize
3. Complete “Voices from the Past”
page 697
Synagogues destroyed
Hitler marches through Europe1. Marches into the Rhineland on March 10,
1936
2. Hitler calls for Anschluss and invades Austria
a. invades in November 1937
b. Anschluss is a reality on March 14, 1938
Munich Conference1. September 29, 1938
2. Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain (Gr. Br.),
Daladier (France), Mackenzie King (Can)
3. They give Hitler the Sudetenland
4. On March 16, 1939, Adolf Hitler invades
all of Czechoslovakia
5. In the Summer of 1939, Hitler signs the
Nazi-Soviet Pact
a. Stalin and Hitler
b. Stalin gets Eastern Poland and Baltics
c. Hitler gets western Poland
d. Stalin stays neutral if war breaks out