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Leading the German Nazi party and instigating World War II
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The October Revolution in Russia set the conditions for the rise to state power of Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks, which was the first time any avowedly communist party reached that position. -
Over the course of the 1930s, the Nazi state abolished all other youth groups in Germany.
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In March 1933, the first concentration camp, Dachau, opened outside of Munich, Germany. -
Persecution and murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi German
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The Nazis burned the books with "unGerman" ideas in them. -
They wanted to made Jews legally different from their non-Jewish neighbors -
It was a massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich. -
Germany, leaded by Hitler, invaded Poland -
Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. -
In 1939, more than 82% of eligible youth belonged to the Hitler Youth or its female equivalent, the League of German Girls.