What is a bully?

• Question 1- What words would you use to describe bullying behavior?

• Question 2- Why do you think other people follow this sort of behavior?

Guiding Questions- Hitler letter on Treaty of Versailles

• As you fill out Document Analysis Form keep these questions in mind.

• Be aware of date.• What words help you to describe Hitler’s tone.• What message do you think Hitler is sending

to the world?

Hitler’s rise to power

How was it possible?

Essential Question

• How was Adolf Hitler able to rise to power and gain German support that would defend his Nazi ideology, at the expense of millions??

• What occurred prior to World War 11 for German citizens to be so susceptible to such evil power?

Nazi ideology

• Adolf Hitler’s NAZI party encouraged national pride, militarism, and a commitment to a racially "pure" Germany.

• fueled anti-Semitism by calling for expulsion of Jewish people.

• identified with lower middle classes.• rural and small town areas

Long Live Germany

Terms of Treaty of Versailles

• Several territories belonging to Germany taken and given mostly to France, Belgium

• All oversea territory lost• Germany’s army reduced to 100,000 men; no

tanks, no air force• Reduced navy- no submarines• “War Guilt Clause“- Germany responsible for

starting war- pay reparations- £6,600 million EFFECT- ignites Nazi party – 27,000 members by

1925

Propaganda: Treaty of Versailles

Guiding Questions: Germany’s letter to Great Britain 1939

• Keep this is mind as you fill out second box in Document Analysis form.

• What is Hitler’s tone in this letter? How is it different then letter in 1923?

Propaganda: Treaty of Versailles

Great Depression of 1929

• plunged Germany further into economic catastrophe.

• Stock Market Crash in 1929 one cause Nazi party rise to 108,000

• Germany relied on foreign funds and trade.• Loans called in• Unemployment• inflation • Weimar Republic blamed

Propaganda: Great Depression

Rhetoric “He used simple, straightforward language that

ordinary people could understand, short sentences, powerful, emotive slogans... There

were no qualifications in what he said; everything was absolute, uncompromising,

irrevocable, undeviating, unalterable, final. He seemed... to speak straight from the heart, and

to express their own deepest fear and desires... “

Bread and Food

God like

Persuasive Speeches

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-6H4xOUrs&skipcontrinter=1

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hEzs7x5aEM&skipcontrinter=1

Guiding Questions: Letters from Nazi soldiers

• Was the young boy proud at time, to be part of Hitler’s youth?

• How does he view Germany?• Does he appear to justify reason for following

Hitler? • Compare stories of German soldiers. How was

life on the battlefield contrary to Nazi beliefs?