Hitler and Nazi Germany: Chapter 21, Lesson 3

When did the Nuremberg Laws strip German Jews of the German citizenship?

1935.

Who is Adolf Hitler?

A Communist leader of Germany in the 1920s-1930s who led the Nazi's and persecuted genocides.

Where were anyone who opposed Hitler's ideas sent?

A concentration camp.

After Hitler's prison term, what did he set out to do?

To make the Nazis the most powerful political party in Germany.

What did Hitler promise?

To stop the payment of reparations, security from a communist takeover, end to the depression, rebuild the German military, and create a new empire.

What did the propaganda say?

To support the Third Reich.

What did Hitler create?

A dictatorship.

What is a concentration camp?

A type of prison camp.

What did the Germans begin calling him?

Der Fuhrer, or the leader.

By 1929, how much had the Nazi's membership expand?

From 27,000 to 178,000.

What did Hitler discourage women to do?

From working outside the home.

What persecution followed after Kristallnacht?

German Jews could not ride public transportation, attend or teach in German schools, and they could not work in stores or hospitals.

What did Hitler do to rid Germany of Jews?

He began by driving them all out of the country, but eventually turned to mass genocide.

Why did Hitler hate Jews so much?

He believed that Germans were descended from a pure Aryan race, and that the Jews in Germany endangered this race, and caused problems in all of Germany.

What did Hitler do differently then Stalin, but similar to Mussolini?

He did not do away with private industry, but did control business and labor.

What did Hitler have the Parliament do once in power and why?

He had them suspend the constitution because he no longer needed the legislature to make laws for he decided what the law was. This was to cement his power quickly.

During the Night of the Broken Glass, what happened?

Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were destroyed, Jews were beaten on the streets, and afterwards over 30,000 German Jewish men were sent to concentration camps.

What was the Third Reich?

Hitler's name for the new German empire.

How bad was inflation in Germany?

Horrible, they used money to light a stove and Ernest Hemingway go 670 marks for 10 francs. Marks were 800 to a dollar.

What did Hitler ban?

Labor unions.

After the war, what happened in Germany?

Many nationalist political parties were formed.

What did the government set up to employ people?

Massive public work projects and provided funding to private industries to create jobs.

What is a genocide?

Murder of all members of an ethnic group.

Why was the president of the German Republic forced to make Hitler chancellor?

Nazis won majority of seats in the German Parliament.

How were thousands of jobs created?

People to help build and equip the military.

What is an anti-Semite?

Someone who hated Jews.

What did Hitler use to maintain control and achieve his policies?

Terror and Propaganda.

What was Hitler's secret police that spied on possible enemies called?

The Gestapo.

What was the only political party allowed in Germany by 1934?

The Nazi Party

What was "Kristallnacht?"

The Night of the Broken Glass- a young Jew had shot a German diplomat in Paris as revenge for the horrors that were happening to his parents in Germany. The Nazis used this as an excuse to attack Jews, and over 100 Jews were murdered.

What happened when the German Jews were stripped of their citizenship?

The could not marry non-Jewish Germans and they had to wear a yellow Star of David wherever they went to distinguish themselves as a Jew.

Why was Germany angry?

Their treatment by the Allies at the Paris Peace Conference, they wanted land taken from the Treaty of Versailles, suffering worldwide depression and Allies still insisted they pay the huge reparations.

Hitler appealed to who like Mussolini?

The nationalists, business leaders, and large landowners.

What is the Nazi Party?

The new name for National Socialist German Workers' Party. This was a nationalist political party that Adolf Hitler eventually headed and overthrowed the government?

What did the concentration camps start?

The persecution of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Roman Catholics, and others.

What did youth groups train?

Young men in military discipline and values.