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vienna
went to the fine arts school and was rejected -
first world war
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hitler took into politics
In 1919, working for an army unit, he was assigned to spy on a political party of roughly 40 idealists called the German Workers Party. Instead, he joined it, swiftly rose to a position of dominance (he was chairman by 1921), and renamed it the Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). -
bavarian nationalists
In November 1923, Hitler organized Bavarian nationalists under a figurehead of General Ludendorff into a coup (or "putsch"). They declared their new government in a beer hall in Munich; a group of 3,000 marched through the streets, but they were met by police who opened fire, killing 16. -
hitler was arrested
Hitler was arrested in 1924 and used his trial to spread his name and his ideas widely. He was sentenced to just five years in prison, a sentence often described as a sign of tacit agreement with his views. -
business
Over time, he gained the interest of big business, the press, and the middle classes. Nazi votes jumped to 107 seats in the Reichstag in 1930. -
chancellor of Germany
hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933 -
olympics
moved forward with plans to turn the 1936 Summer and Winter Olympics into showcases for his regime. He ordered the construction of a massive new stadium in Berlin and channeled funds toward the completion of an airport to welcome international visitors. -
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leader of germany Adolf Hitler
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camps
in March 1933, the first concentration camp, Dachau, opened outside of Munich, Germany. It was used primarily for political prisoners and was the longest running camp in operation, until its liberation in April 1945. -
burning buildings and what was done to stop them
February 4, 1933. This decree placed constraints on the press and authorized the police to ban political meetings and marches, effectively hindering electoral campaigning. A temporary measure, it was followed by a more dramatic and permanent suspension of civil rights following the February 27 burning of the parliament building. -
burning buildings
On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down due to arson. The Nazi leadership and its German Nationalist coalition partners exploited the fire to persuade President Paul von Hindenburg that Communists were planning a violent uprising to derail Germany’s "national renewal -
book burning
german students formerly regarded as among the finest in the world and had gathered with ungerman books and this is were they burned books -
race laws
race laws were put in place -
Jesse Owens
tied the world record in the 100-yard dash while still in high school, and his performance at the 1935 Big Ten Championships, in which he established three world records and matched a fourth over a span of 45 minutes, remains one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in collegiate sports history -
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938
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concentration camps november 1938
concentration camps were started and people were put into them -
nazi camps
in March 1938, Austrian political prisoners came into the Nazi concentration camp system. Following the violent Kristallnacht in November 1938, Nazi officials conducted mass arrests of adult male Jews throughout the country, the first time Jews were arrested en masse precisely because they were Jews. -
girls
The Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls were the Nazis' primary tools for shaping the beliefs, thinking, and actions of German youth. While the development of a healthy body was emphasized through participation in sports, more typical activities for League of German Girls members were music, crafts, and various aspects of home economics such as sewing, childcare, and cooking. -
world war two
world war two begins -
ghetto
German occupation authorities established the first ghetto in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski in October 1939. -
holocaust
the holocaust was when they had sacrificed a killed jews by slaughtering them -
destroyed the ghettos.
beginning in late 1941, the Germans systematically destroyed the ghettos.