Germany during the Great Depression
• Economic-unemployment
- American loans stopped
• Social
- German women were expected to breed pure German babies
• Political
- Nazis gained power (Hitler)
Hitler’s rise to power
• Enabling Act
(June 30 1933) - Paul von Hindenburg announced Hitler his chancellor
• Reichstag (Nacional Diet)
• NAZIS ( National Socialists Workers Party)
Hitler & Paul von Hindenburg
Rise of the STORM TROOPERS (SA)
• Reichstag Fire- Dutch communist set fire to the Reichstag building
• Storm troopers (SA)- hired to end any doubt of Hitler
• Schutztaffel (SS)- bodyguards
• 52,000 members
HITLERS PROCESS OF ELIMINATING THE JEWS
•1938
•Kristallnacht “Crystal Night”
•Nuremburg Laws- Took CITIZENSHIP away
Burning of a synagogue(jewish church)
Review game
• 1 Paul von Hindenburg was president of what republic?
• 2 What signing allowed Hitler become chancellor?
• 3 NAZI stands for…?
• 4 the Reichstag fire was…
• 5 how many members were in the Shutzstaffel?
• 6 Which law did hitler create that took away Jews citizenship?
• What were the roles of the women?
• What was Hitler’s plan that eliminated 6 million Jews?