MARCUS WEAVER amp MATT BLACKWOOD Nazi G ermany Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are common names for Germany during the period from 1933 to 1945 when its government was controlled by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers Party NSDAP commonly known as the Nazi Party Un ID: 379721
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Nazi Germany in WWII
MARCUS WEAVER & MATT BLACKWOODSlide2
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are common names for Germany during the period from 1933 to 1945, when its government was controlled by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a fascist totalitarian state which controlled nearly all aspects of life. Nazi Germany ceased to exist after the Allied Forces defeated Germany in May 1945, ending World War II in Europe.
After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933, the Nazi Party began to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate their power. Hindenburg died on 2 August 1934, and Hitler became dictator of Germany when the powers and offices of the Chancellery and Presidency were merged.Slide3
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (in German
Konzentrationslager
, or KZ) throughout the territories it controlled. The term was borrowed from the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War.
The first Nazi concentration camps were erected in Germany in March 1933 immediately after Hitler became Chancellor and his NSDAP was given control over the police through Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick and Prussian Acting Interior Minister Hermann
Göring
. Used to hold and torture political opponents and union organizers, the camps initially held around 45,000 prisoners.Slide4
JEWISH IN WWII
By World War II, nearly all Jewish companies had either collapsed under financial pressure and declining profits, or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the "
Aryanization
" policy inaugurated in 1937. As the war started, large massacres of Jews took place. Pogroms (racial riots) were also encouraged by the Nazis, especially early in the war before the larger mass killings began.
The first of these pogroms was
Kristallnacht
in Nazi Germany, often called
Pogromnacht
, or "night of broken glass," in which Jewish homes were ransacked in numerous German cities along with 11,000 Jewish shops, towns and villages, as civilians and SA
stormtroopers
destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving the streets covered in smashed windows — the origin of the name "Night of Broken Glass." Jews were beaten to death; 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps; and 1,668 synagogues ransacked with 267 set on fire. In the city of
Lviv
, Ukrainian nationalists organized two large pogroms in July, 1941, in which around 6,000 Jews were murdered.Slide5
ANNE FRANK
Annelies
Marie "Anne" Frank was a diarist and writer. She was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.Slide6Slide7