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Hitler’s Rise to Power 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch Failed, Hitler jailed for treason 1924 – Hitler released from prison 1925 – Mien Kampf is published 1929 – Hitler has expanded the Nazi party to a national level 1932 – Nazi party memberships exceeds 800,000 1933 - President Hindenburg makes Hitler Chancellor • Reichstag burns, Hitler blames communists • 2/3 of the Reichstag vote in favour of the enabling act, which made
Hitler dictator • Hitler immediately purges civil service of Jews and people opposed
to him. 1934 – President Hindenburg dies, Hitler has become the sole leader of Germany – The Fuhrer 1934 – Night of the Long Knives aka the Blood Purge
Propaganda Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.
Techniques
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – (the message) must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.“
- Adolph Hitler
• Ad nauseam • Ad hominem • Appeal to fear • Appeal to authority • Bandwagon • Half-truths
Joseph Goebbels
• Reich Minister of Propaganda
• One of Hitler’s closest and most trusted associates
The Triumph of the Will
• Propaganda Film by Leni Riefenstahl, produced under supervision of Joseph Goebbels
• Released in 1935
• Depicts the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg
• Over 700,000 supporters in attendance
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
• Released in 1943
• Produced by Walt Disney under contract for the United States
Historical Literature Assignment
• Group Project
• Fiction and Non-Fiction
• Read a book with a group
• Group and Individual Assignments
• Short Presentations
The Books
• John Hersey – Hiroshima
• Elie Wiesel – Night
• John Steinbeck – The Moon is Down
• Michelle Magorian – Goodnight Mr. Tom
• John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
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