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Hyperinflation and The Great Depression (1/2)
In Germany, after the first World War, people were suffering an extreme economic loss after the country's government signed a peace treaty, ending the war while bringing down the country economically. This, paired with the Great Depression, a global economic downfall, created a hyperinflation in the German Dollar. According to Hyperinflation and The Great Depression by Facing History and Ourselves, the German Dollar increased from 4.2 Marks per USD in 1918 to 4200,000,000,000 Marks per USD 1923. -
Hyperinflation and The Great Depression (2/2)
Because of this intensive economic strain, Germans were angered and started riots and protests to tackle the issue of the Treaty of Versailles and the hyperinflation that followed. It was these acts of violence that served as a catalyst for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's propulsion to popularity amongst political factions vying for power. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany (1/2)
In Germany, multiple political factions were vying for spots in Germany's government, the Reichstag, to bring about a change in the hyperinflation and civil unrest in Germany. According to The Rise of Hitler by Facing History and Ourselves, in 1932, the president of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, was elected for a new term, in which he appointed a new Chancellor, the chief executive of the federal cabinet, and he failed to bring a change in Germany, as his kind of politicians were losing traction -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (2/2)
...losing traction, as the people of Germany did not relate and believe in their ideals. And so, with Hitler being in the highest position to take place in government, paired with the fact that the country-wide depression was still raging on, the German Government made an uneasy alliance with Hitler to resolve the economic crisis, along with a few other problems. On January 30th, 1933, he was sworn in as Chancellor. This was an action taken by the government that would lead to the Holocaust. -
Nazi Brainwashing of Youth in Deutcheland (Quote is from 'Nazi Political Party - Activity 2'
In Germany, after Hitler's elected chancellor, he worked his way through the political ranks until he became the Fuhrer, or dictator, of Germany. One of his first decrees as Fuhrer was the permission to play certain Reich-approved videos to schools in Germany. These videos were made to target and harass a few minorities in Germany, but none more than the Jewish Semitic people. In some of old provisions Hitler proposed, he claims that, "Only those of German blood...May be members of the nation" -
Herschel Grynzspan assassinates Ernst von Rath (1/2)
During the exploitation of German law against the Jewish people, one teenage Jew, a boy who lost his parents to Gestapo mistreatment, assassinates Ernst von Rath, a Nazi Diplomat in the German Embassy. The boy's name was Herschel Grynzspan. He was 17 at the time. According to the French police account in the Embassy, Grynzspan said right before drawing his gun, "You're a filthy boche! In the name of 12,000 persecuted Jews, here is the document!" This choice of Grynzspan was not only the sole... -
Herschel Grynzspan assassinates Ernst von Rath (2/2)
...reason for Kristallnacht, a local persecution of 91 jews, but also a massive contributing factor to Hitler's final solution, the Holocaust. -
Kristallnacht (2/3)
...power to phone police stations and fire departments to only assist pure blooded or Aryan Germans, and leave the Jewish Germans alone. There would be attacks on Jewish households, with bricks and fire coming through, followed by cheering and protest. These Germans, who were once loving neighbours and possibly friends of the Jews, were now assaulting their very home as if they were a mortal enemy. One survivor of Kristallnacht, Elsbeth Lewin, describes the night of broken glass in sad words... -
Kristallnacht (1/3)
After the assassination of Ernst von Rath, Adolf Hitler decided to use Grynzspan as a catalyst of destruction against the Jewish people. On the evening of November 9th into the morning of November 10th, he proposed a pogrom, an organised killing of a minority group or otherwise, on the Jewish people living in multiple locations, but mainly Nazi Germany titled Kristallnacht. This event was an organised attempt at increasing the abuse of Jews from systemic to physical, and abused the government... -
Kristallnacht (3/3)
"I know that Jews had to go and clean up the mess that other people had made of their homes and of their stores, and then were fined in addition to that. That was the law, the Nazi law.". This is what Elsbeth Lewin had to say about the Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht. In this event, the choices of the German Government, the choices of the German civilians who attacked their neighbours, and the choices of the Jews who stayed and suffered prompted the excessive genocide of Jews, the Holocaust