Triumph of Hitler

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Triumph of Hitler
1933-1939
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Gestapo

• Secret Police
• Founded by Herman Goering
• Turned over to Heinrich Himmler
• 2/10/36 Gestapo Law passed making the Gestapo
  above the law
• Section B4 dealt with the final solution was
  headed by Adolf Eichmann

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Concentration Camps

• Dachau first camp opened March 1933
• SS run by Theodor Eicke
• July 1934 construction of camps at such as
  Buchenwald begins
• Began for Enemies of the State
• Mostly Political prisoners
• For Re-education

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Dachau 1934
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February 1933 Reichstag fire Hitler blames
Communists
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Hitler gets Emergency Decree Limits free speech
press Pass Enabling Act suspends
constitution rule by decree
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Only obstacle now President Hindenburg
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When Hindenburg dies on August 1934 Hitler
assumes office of President as well as
Chancellor der Fuhrer
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Night of Long Knives

• June 30, 1934
• SA- Brown shirted Storm troopers
• Ernest Rohm wanted to be Peoples Army
• Hitler needs support of Army and Industrialists
• Army doesnt like Peoples Army
• Industrialist think SA is socialist

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• Hitler needs someone to take out SA
• SS part of the SA was responsible just to Hitler
• Rohm and other SA leaders are killed
• Others who have crossed Hitler are targeted
  300-1000
• SS became independent
• Hitler gets support of Army and Industry

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Hitler and Rohm 1933
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Nuremberg Race Laws

• 9/15/35 Defined what was Jewish and set up laws
  to limit Jews rights
• Laws include no mixed marriages
• Jews lost their citizenship
• No sexual relations between Jews and full blooded
  Germans

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Chart explaining who is a Jew
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Reoccupation of Rhineland

• March 16, 1935 German Draft instituted
• March 7, 1936 Army crosses Rhine into
  Rhineland
• Violates Versailles Treaty
• Germany not strong enough if France reacts

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• Group of generals vow to overthrow Hitler if
  France makes a move
• France does. . .

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German people welcome troops into the Rhineland
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• Results
• Hitler feels Western leaders are weak
• Plot to overthrow Hitler falls apart
• Hitler feels generals are not bold
• enough

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1936 Berlin Olympics

• Americans vote to participate
• 312 athletes 19 African American 5 Jews
• Jesse Owens from The Ohio State University wins 4
  gold medals
• Breaks myth of Aryan Supremacy

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Auschliss

• March 12, 1938
• Union with Austria
• Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg
• Replaced by Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart
• Austria taken without a shot
• Schuschnigg Arrested taken to camps

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German Army crosses into Austria
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Munich Pact

• September 1938
• Neville Chamberlain
• Edouard Daladier
• Benito Mussolini
• Secedes Sudetenland to Germany
• October 1, 1938

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Munich Conference Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler,
Mussolini
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Good Bye Czech

• March 15, 1939
• Hitler takes rest of Czechoslovakia
• Violation of Munich Pact
• Chamberlain and England stand up to Hitler
• France and England guarantee all future
  boundaries March 31, 1939

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Non-Aggression Pact

• August 23, 1939
• Danzig and Polish Corridor
• Molotov- Ribbentrop agreement
• Non-aggression vs. Germany
• Soviet free hand in Eastern Europe
• Soviets take E.Poland, Baltic Republics
• Fight with Finland

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