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  • Adolf Hitler

    Hitler dropped out of high school at age 16 and went to Vienna, where he strove to become an artist, but was refused twice by the Vienna Art Academy. Antisemitism played a major role in Adolf Hitler's thinking and in the Nazi ideology.Hitler was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in prison.Mein Kampf meaning my struggle was the book he wrote.
  • Liesel and Rudy’s Daily Life

    who was a frontline soldier from 1914 to 1918. Like many, Hitler believed Germany lost the war because of enemy propaganda, not defeat on the battlefield.physicians
  • Nazi Camps

    44,000 Most prisoners in the early camps were political prisoners German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats as well as Roma.The concentration camp refers to a camp where people are detained or confined, under harsh conditions without regard to legal norms of arrest/imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. Established primarily or exclusively for the assembly-line style murder of large numbers of people immediately upon arrival to the site
  • Book burning in Nazi Germany.

    They believed that the books were against nazi views.books by Einstein and Thomas mann and others were burned.
  • Holocaust History

    a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life/slaughter especially through fire Yes , it was a massive killing of Europeans and jews
  • The Nuremberg Race Laws

    deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. (An Aryan being a person with blond hair and blue eyes of Germanic heritage.)
  • Kristallnacht

    The Night of Broken Glass. On October 27.The attack came after Herschel Grynszpan, a 17 year old Jew living in Paris, shot and killed a member of the German Embassy staff there in retaliation for the poor treatment his father and his family suffered at the hands of the Nazis in Germany.
  • Ghettos

    Living conditions were miserable. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. The Germans established at least 1,143 ghettos in the occupied eastern territories.There were three types of ghettos: closed ghettos open ghettos destruction ghettos The largest ghetto in occupied Poland was the Warsaw ghetto. In Warsaw, more than 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles.
  • Adolf Hitler

    They thought he was a great leader and lead with personality World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3. The war between the U.S.S.R. and Germany began on June 22, 1941, with Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
  • Reichstag Fire

    Though the origins of the fire are still unclear, in a propaganda maneuver, the coalition government (Nazis and the German Nationalist People's Party) blamed the Communists.
  • Communism

    The government has control of everything you do and own.you can own a business or property and no matter how much you work you are given the same amount of money as others.
  • Jessie Owens

    He tied the world record in the 100-yard dash while still in high school, and his performance at the 1935 Big Ten Championships.