Anschluss
With Adolf Hitler's ascendancy to the chancellery, the Nazi Party quickly consolidated power Hitler has managed to maintain a posture of legality throughout the Nazification process.
Domestically, over the next six years, Hitler completely transformed Germany into a police state regularly Germany began rearming its military forces in violation of the Versailles Treaty of 1919 Internationally, Hitler committed a diplomatic revolution skillfully negotiating with other European countries and publicly expressing his strong desire for peace.
From 1938, Hitler began his aggressive quest for Lebensraum, or living space over Britain, France and Russia would not enter the war and their collective diplomatic position was to appease the aggressor Germany without engaging in the war, Germany was able to annex neighboring Austria and dismember Czechoslovakia finally, a reluctant Britain and France have threatened war if Germany and targeted Poland or Romania.
In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Britain France had no choice but to declare war on Germany World War had begun.
On January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor.
On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag building was in flames Nazis immediately claimed that this was the beginning of a communist revolution This fact led many historians to believe that the Nazis actually set or help set fire Others believe that a Dutch communist deranged set fire problem has never been solved This incident prompted Hitler to persuade Hindenburg to issue a decree for the protection of people and the state which granted the Nazis sweeping authority to confront the emergency is called This has laid the foundations of a police state.
This site deals with the appointment of Hitler as chancellor and political infighting that preceded this event.
The Reichstag fire and the emergency decree that followed restricting personal freedoms are discussed.
A few months after Hitler's appointment as chancellor, the Dachau concentration camp was established, the Nazis began arresting Communists, socialists and union leaders Dachau became a training center for guards of the concentration camp Commanders and later learned that terror tactics to dehumanize prisoners of parliamentary democracy ended with the passage of the Reichstag the Enabling Act, which allowed the government to enact laws without the Reichstag.
As part of an internal policy coordination, the Nazis set up special courts to punish political dissent in a parallel movement from April to October, the regime passed civil laws that prevented the Jews from holding positions in public service in the legal and medical professions, and teaching and academic positions the Nazis encouraged boycotts of Jewish stores and businesses and began book burnings of writings by Jews and others are not approved by the Reich.
The Burning of books in Nazi Germany, 1933 US response by Guy Stern.
Nazi anti-Semitic legislation and propaganda against non-Aryans was a thinly disguised attack against all those who had parents or grandparents Jews Jews felt increasingly isolated from the rest of German society.
Fifteen Nazi pictures of indoctrination youth record of Germany.
SA Sturmabteilung helped Hitler's rise to power in early 1934, there were 2 5 million SA men compared to 100,000 men in the regular army Hitler knew that the army opposed the SA becoming its core Fearing the power of the army to force him from office, Hitler curried their favor by attacking the leadership of the SA in the night of the long knives Hitler stopped Ernst R hm and dozens of other SA leaders and fired by the SS who rose in importance.
This site recounts the events of the night of the long knives, bloody action against Hitler's SA.
On August 2, 1934, President Hindenburg died Hitler combined the offices of Reich Chancellor and President, expressing F Führer and Reich Chancellor or Chief Reichsf Reich.
Hitler announced the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, these laws stripped Jews of their civil rights as German citizens and separated them from Germans legally, socially, and politically were also defined Jews as a distinct breed under the Act the protection of German blood and honor of being Jewish was now determined by descent; and the Germans used race, not religious beliefs or practices, to define the Jewish people This law prohibited marriage or sexual relations between Jews and Germans Hitler warned darkly that if this law did not solve the problem, would turn to the Nazi party for a final solution.
More than 120 laws, decrees and ordinances were adopted after the Nuremberg laws and before the start of World War II, further weakening the rights of German Jews Many thousands of Germans who had not previously considered themselves Jews found defined as non-Aryan.
This discussion includes 1932-1935 Hitler's rise to power, the instruments of terror, and the Nuremberg Laws.
Read about the Hitler Youth, a Nazi organization which included 60 young people from Germany among its members in 1935.
Go to the resources section to see photos of the Third Reich from 1933 to 1939, including burnings, Hitler and Hitler Youth.
In 1936, Berlin hosted the Olympics Hitler saw this as an ideal opportunity to promote a favorable image of Nazism Monumental stadiums in the world and other Olympic facilities were built as showpieces Nazis Leni Riefenstahl was commissioned to create a film, Olympia, to Nazi propaganda Some have called his previous film in 1935, Triumph of the will, one of the great pieces of propaganda of the century, she portrayed Hitler as a god.
International political unrest preceded the games was asked if the Nazi regime could really accept the terms of the Olympic Charter to free participation in class, creed or race, there were calls for a US boycott of the games Guaranteed Nazis that they allow German Jews to join the boycott did not happen.
While the two Germans with Jewish ancestry were invited to be on the German Olympic team, the German Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann, one of the most accomplished jumpers in the world, was not.
The great irony of the Olympic Games is that in the country of Aryan superiority, it was Jesse Owens, the star of the African-American track, which was the undisputed hero of the games.
The resources section offers pictures of the Berlin Olympics in 1936 showing the decorations of the street, the arrival of the US team and the Olympic Stadium.
This gallery is made up of resources from recent photos showing the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Last photos of sculptures on the grounds of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
The Holocaust Memorial Museum in the US offers a Web tour of his exhibition Olympic Games.
In March 1938, as part of the search for Hitler to unite all German-speaking peoples and Lebensraum, Germany took over Austria bloodless The Anschluss was held with the overwhelming approval of the Austrian people no country protested against this violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
In September 1938, Hitler regarded the northwest region of Czechoslovakia called Sudetenland, which had three million German citizens Hitler did not want to walk in the Sudetenland until it is certain that France and Britain n 'intervene first, he met British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and threatened to go to war if he did not receive the territory Then at the Munich Conference, Hitler prevailed in Britain, France and Italy to accept the surrender of the Sudetenland Western powers chose appeasement rather than military confrontation in occupied Germany Sudetenland October 15, 1938.
These photographs show the German annexation of the Sudetenland in Germany open anti-Semitism has become increasingly accepted, climaxing in the night of Kristallnacht Broken Glass November 9, 1938 Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels launched this without all against Jews, in which nearly 1,000 synagogues were burned and 76 were destroyed over 7,000 Jewish businesses and homes were looted, hundreds of Jews were killed and less than 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps to be tortured, many for months in a few days, the Nazis forced Jews to transfer their businesses to Aryan hands and expelled all Jewish public school students with shameless arrogance still persecuted Nazi Jews by forcing them to Kristallnacht pay damages.
This Nazi order instigated the Kristallnacht measures.
This gallery shows the desecration of synagogues, some of which were damaged during Kristallnacht.
Video clip documenting the violence of Kristallnacht.
An extensive article on Kristallnacht includes an introduction, record information, personal profiles, documents, eyewitnesses, and an epilogue.
On 1 September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, officially starting World War Two days later, Britain and France, now obliged by treaty to assist Poland, declared war on the armies of Hitler Germany used the tactics of Blitzkrieg or lightning war, a combination of armored attack accompanied air assault Before British rule and the french could be brought to bear, in less than four weeks, Poland, he has collapsed military conquest Germany able to establish the new order, a level of abuse and eliminate so-called Jews, including undesirables and Slavs.
These photographs document the invasion of Poland and the Nazi mistreatment of Polish Jews.
This discussion of Nazi Germany 1936-1939 covers euthanasia, Aryanization and Kristallnacht.
The lesson plans, discussion questions, topics term paper, reproducible documents and other resources for the teaching of the denazification of Germany are available here.
A teacher's guide Holocaust Produced by the Florida Center for Educational Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida in 2005.
Chronology of the Holocaust The denazification of Germany, Holocaust denazification, Germany.