Functionalists- believe Holocaust was a function of other
developments that evolved over time, downplay Hitler’s role.
Both viewpoints are ridiculed.
Hitler was a mediocre student, failed to get accepted into
art school.
Pan-Germanism- belief that Germans should be unified in one
state.
Hitler blamed Jews for WWI. He also blamed Communists.
Hitler might have had a secret love affair with his niece.
Aryans-group of people in ancient India.
Furer Principle- commitment to uncontested leadership.
There was only 1 woman who was close to Hitler’s inner
circle. Her name was Gerttnid Scholtz-Klunk, she saw her greatest contribution
as motherhood.
Not much fighting was done inside Germany, so most of the
economy was still intact. Although, they suffered form inflation or
hyperinflation.
Stock market crash of 1929 affected Germany.
In 1933, Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.
After Hitler lost the election for the position he wanted he
almost committed suicide.
“Third Reich” or third empire began.
2 phases of WWII
Nazi revolution
Nazi revolution
German parliament building was burned down, Hitler said that
the Communists burned it. Many didn’t believe him.
Hitler saw homosexuals are an evil because they stopped the reproduction
of the Aryan race. Mostly saw homosexual men as threats not particularly women
though since they did not exercise power. He felt that they could be forced to
reproduce.
Nazi ideology was based on blood so even people who
converted religion were still considered Jews.
Hitler ordered sterilization of certain groups of people. In
March 1933, first concentration camp opened.
Propaganda was made to convince people to accept his ideas,
July 1933, concordat was made with Catholic church and
Germany.
January 1934, non aggression pact with Poland was signed.
Disease was prominent in death camps.
Law for Protection of German Blood and Honor- forbade
marriage or sexual relations between Jews and “Aryan” Germans.
Law was also against Germans.
Hitler had a four-year plan to prepare the German economy
and military for war.
Most of the German public was not eager for war. Although,
Hitler began training people for war.
26,000 thousand Jewish men and women were sent to
concentration camps. Synagogues were burned down. Most people fled to France,
Poland and the Netherlands.
Rassenschande- crimes against the blood.
Pact of Steel was made with Italy and German in May 1939.
Hilter-Stalin Pact was crated in Aug 1939.
Goal was racial purification.
Germans tested killing practices on handicapped children.
They did this secretly from the public.
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