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National Socialist German Worker’s Party
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, this party ended when world war 2 ended in 1945. -
Hitler as an artist
At the age of 18, he moved to Vienna with money inherited after his father's death in 1903, in order to pursue a career in art, as this was his best subject at school. However his applications for both the Vienna Academy of Art and the School of Architecture were rejected. But hitter continued to paint during ww1 and ww2 even though he never got accepted to school for it. -
(Mien Kampf By adolf hitler) sources: Author: History.com Staff, Title: Mien Kampf is published
While imprisoned for treason adolf hitter wrote Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”) in prison. mein Kampf was the basic book of Nazi goals and ideology ( hitter wrote 2 volumes) The first part of Mein Kampf, subtitled “A Reckoning,”on the problems besetting Germany,the French, who wished to dismember Germany; the lack of lebesraum, “living space,”and the need to expand east into Russia; and the baleful infof “mongrel” races. Which means the need fo pure blood. Second volume focused on national socialism -
Chancellor Heinrich Bruning
Heinrich Brüning was the chancellor and foreign minister for Germany just before Hitler came to power. On March 28, 1930, he was called to create a new, more conservative ministry. During the Great Depression, Brüning created high tariffs on foreign products, cutbacks in salaries, he increased taxation, reduced government spending, and continued paying for the reparations by the Treaty of Versailles. Source: Britannica -
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The Holocost
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews, deemed “inferior,” were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. -
Concentration camps
Adolf hitter and his political party wanted a pure Aryan race for Germany. which led to the creation of the concentration camp. Which was to get rid of any none pure bloods like the Jews,gypsies,gays and people who opposed him or were against him were also put into the concentration camps. were so many of them where tortured, experimented on and put to death in horrible Inhumane ways. -
Hitlers suicide
Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol. At his side were Eva Braun, whom he married only two days before their double suicide, and his dog, an Alsatian named Blondi.Warned by officers that the Russians were only a day or so from overtaking the chancellery and urged to escape to Berchtesgarden, a small town in the Bavarian Alps where Hitler owned a home, the dictator instead chose suicide -
Reichstag Fire Decree
On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag building on Berlin was set fire. A day later on February 28, Hitler began his dictatorship with a decree "for the protection of the people and the state." Source: Britannica -
Gleichschaltung “coordination”
According to merriam-webster.com, gleichschaltung means "the act, process, or policy of achieving rigid and total coordination and uniformity (as in politics, culture, communication) by forcibly repressing or eliminating independence and freedom of thought, action, or expression." Basically this was a euphemism that the Nazis used that referred to the total destruction of their enemies. Source: Merriam Webster -
Dachau Concentration Camp
The Dachau Concentration camp (1933) was one of the first concentration camps established in Nazi Germany. It held many political prisoners.The Dachau Concentration camp (1933) was one of the first concentration camps established in Nazi Germany. It held many political prisoners.During the camps first year, it help over 4,800 prisoners. After the war, an estimated 10,000 Jewish men were interned there. -
Gestapo
Gestapo (1933) was a term the Germans used when they referred to Nazi Germany's Secret Police. Gestapo operated without mercy. They tortured anyone whom they believed was an "inferior race.Gestapo (1933) was a term the Germans used when they referred to Nazi Germany's Secret Police. Gestapo operated without mercy. They tortured anyone whom they believed was an "inferior race. -
Invasion of Rhineland
(1936) Hitler went against the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles by sending German forces into the demilitarized Rhineland.1936) Hitler went against the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles by sending German forces into the demilitarized Rhineland. Two years later, Germany broke out of its territory, overtaking Austria and Czechoslovakia. -
Occupation of Austria and Sudetenland
March 12, 1938. Adolf Hitler sent Nazi troops to take over Austria.March 12, 1938. Austrian Nazis planned to seize Austria for the second time. Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg tried to negotiate with Adolf Hitler but was forced to resign. Later Hitler mobilized his troops and seized Austria. -
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbles (1897-1945)was a very strategic propagandist for the Nazi party during WWIIJoseph Goebbles (1897-1945) was a very strategic propagandist for the Nazi party during WWII. He created Der Angriff ("The Attack") and created the Fürher myth around Hitler. After Hitler died, Goebbles became Germany's chancellor for only one day. That same day his wife and six children poisoned themselves and died.
