HISTORY YEAR 9

UNIT 4 BETWEEN THE WARS: ABROAD

4.4 WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE IN HITLER’S GERMANY

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OBJECTIVES
OBJECTIVES

Evaluate how life under Nazi dictatorship is different

from the democratic system we live today
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A Chancellor is the
The President asked Hitler to
president’s ‘second in
become
command’ or chief of
CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY WITHOUT TRIAL
ministers. Had the power to
Means without the
ARREST and IMPRISON chance to defend
without trial themselves in Court
President passed away a year
later
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Hitler appointed himself By 1939, there were

CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT 100,000 people in
of Germany Their job was to hunt
prisons for
down anyone who
HITLER
might beCRIMES
against Hitler
Supreme leader means
Called himself FUHRER
the leader with the
Meaning
highest ranking and These people were
SUPREME LEADER
most powerful known as
Enemy of the State
Oath means promise.
Hitler made the army
Made the military swear an EVERYTHING
Hitler established a secret
The Gestapo
oath of loyalty to him AND
promise
police, THEN..
loyalty
called
to
Gestapo
him,CHANGED
not even to
Germany
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The Jews, Russians, Slavs

Gypsies

Anyone Hitler thought was a Homosexuals

threat or danger to his
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leadership was captured, tortured

The HITLER’S HATE LIST or murdered. The disabled
He also prosecuted those he
thought was inferior or a burden
to Germany The Jews, Russians, Slavs

Prostitutes, beggars

Anyone who speaks ill of the Fuhrer

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HITLER ESPECIALLY HATED THE JEWS

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• He saw them as an inferior race

• He believed they cared more about themselves than the greatness of Germany
• He thought they were involved in a conspiracy to take over the world
• He blamed them for Germany’s defeat in the Great War
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Between 1933 to 1939

The Jews were prosecuted in stages
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• Follow the link below which will take you on a timeline journey throughout the years
1933 to 1939 in which variety of Anti-Jewish Laws were introduced by the Nazi
government
• http://histoire.museeholocauste.ca/en/timeline/antijewish-laws
1933
• Nazis organised a boycott of Jewish businesses.
• Books by Jewish authors were publicly burnt.
• Jewish civil servants, lawyers and teachers were
sacked.
• Race science lessons were introduced, teaching
that Jews were sub-human.
1935
• The Nuremberg Laws formalised anti-Semitism
into the Nazi state by:
• Stripping Jews of German citizenship.
• Outlawing marriage and sexual relations between
Jews and Germans.
• Taking away from Jews all civil and political
rights.
1938
• Jews could not be doctors.
• Jews had to add the name Israel (men) or Sarah
(women) to their name.
• Jewish children were forbidden to go to school.
• Kristallnacht - 9 November. The SS organised attacks
on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in
retaliation for the assassination of the German
ambassador to France by a Jew.
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are finished
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