World War II and the Rise of Nazi Germany

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World War II and the Rise of Nazi Germany

• Post-World War I
• Treaty of Versailles punished Germany
• War Guilt Clause
• HUGE reparations
• Lost the Sudetenland
• Disarm (no military)
• Anger over Treaty led to rise of Nazism

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Rise of NAZISM

• National Socialist German Workers' Party (NAZI)
• NAZI goals
• FASCISM
• little social political rights
• allows economic rights
• Anti-Union
• ARYANS were master race
• Hatred toward Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals,
  mentally retarded, non-Aryan
• Lebensraum ("living space")
• Reclaim land lost in WWI

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Adolph HITLER

• Dictator of Germany during World War II
• Served for Germany in WWI on Western Front
• gassed by the British
• Wrote book Mein Kampf
• means My Struggle
• wrote while in prison

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Hitlers FINAL SOLUTION

• Answer t/t Jewish Question
• The HOLOCAUST
• The annihilation of all European Jews
• zeal o/t minority of Germans
• passivity o/t majority
• Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass
• Concentration Camps
• protective custody
• Germany Dachau Buchenwald
• Poland Auschwitz Treblinka (extermination
  camps)
• Slavs, Gypsies and homosexuals were also victims
• Upwards of 5 million killed
• No less than 6 million Jews were killed
• 1.5 million were under 15

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Comparing the Holocaust during WW2 to European
Imperialism

• Define GENOCIDE
• Is Imperialism any different from what the Nazis
  did to the Jews during WW2?
• Look at the UN Convention o/t Prevention
  Punishment o/t Crime of Genocide