PPT-Between 1933 and 1945, the German

government led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party carried out the systematic persecution and murder of Europes Jews This genocide is now known as the Holocaust The Nazi regime also persecuted and killed millions of other people it considered. By: . Pranay. . Ippagunta. Hitler’s Childhood. Early Years. Dictator Adolf Hitler was born in . Branau. am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, and was the fourth of six children born to . Alois. Hitler and . Week 15, February 3. German destruction of Murmansk, 1943 . (. Yevgeny. . Khaldei. ). Germans losing the war. Battle of Kursk, summer 1943, last German offensive in the East . . Jews and other victims locked in the continent . The Gestapo. What was the Gestapo?. . It was an abbreviation for . Geheime. . Staatspolizei. , meaning secret state police; it was the official secret police of the German Nazi state. Who was head of the Gestapo?. and. Johannes. Fascism. Weimarer . Republic. Hitler . and. Nazi Germany. Mussolini . and. . Italy. Index. Weimarer . Republic. 1919 - 1933. 1918 - 1919 . 1919 - 1923. 1923 - 1929. 1930 - 1932. 1932 - 1933. The ‘Folk Community’. HI290- History of Germany. Volksgemeinschaft. (Folk Community). Idea of an equal community of racial comrades. Everyone’s participation. Equality defined racially and socially. Holocaust .  Greek words “. holos. ” (whole) & “. kaustos. ” (burned). Literal Meaning: Sacrificial offering burned at an altar. What We Associate It With: Murder of over 6 million European Jews and other persecuted groups (gypsies, homosexuals). L/O – To assess the successes and failures of Hitler’s economic policies. To what extent did Germans benefit from Nazi rule in the 1930s?. STARTER. : Can you name the 7 leading . Nazi. figures? Give one fact about each . Why were German people optimistic after WWI?. Abdication . of . Kaiser.. New democratic . government. .. Expectations the Allies would help the new Weimar . Government. President Wilson’s desire for fairness – 14 . The Battle of the Bulge. December 1944. Hitler’s desperate response to the advance of the Allied forces after D-Day. Attack came through the Ardennes Forest, intended target was Antwerp, Belgium. Splitting the Allied forces in half- forcing the British and Americans to ask for peace separate from the Soviets. L/O – To identify and examine the foreign policy steps Hitler took to achieve his aims in the years 1933-37. What influenced his foreign policy?. As you have seen with Mussolini and now Hitler, foreign policy is…. government led by Adolf Hitler and the. Nazi Party carried out the systematic. persecution and murder of Europe’s Jews.. This genocide is now known. as the Holocaust.. The Holocaust. Something similar was going on in Europe to the . Timeline of Events Leading to WWII. 1933. : Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. 1933-39. : begins rearmament & military build-up in Germany. 1936. : Reoccupies the Rhineland. Spring,1938. : Annexes Austria (. Our extended text: . Night . by . Elie. Wiesel . Holocaust. : from the Greek word. “. olokauston. ”: a destruction caused by fire or a burned sacrifice. What can literature teach us about humanity and responsibilities to ourselves, our culture, our society, and our world?. HI290- History of Germany. Volksgemeinschaft. (Folk Community). Idea of an equal community of racial comrades. Everyone’s participation. Equality defined racially and socially. Based on exclusion of those who did not fit in racially and biologically (“non-Aryans,” “.