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Hitler and Nazi Germany - Coggle Diagram
Hitler and Nazi Germany
Legally Gained Power
- Hitler knew overthrow of the Weimar Republic wouldn’t work, so he grew the party to be able to legally win the vote
- used German economic difficulty + unemployment to appeal to German nationalism and militarism, promising a new Germany
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Kristallnacht
“On November 9–10, 1938, Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) because of the shattered glass that littered the streets after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes”
Concentration Camps
a camp where prisoners of war, political prisoners, or members of minority groups are confined, typically under harsh conditions
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Enabling Act (1933) - Gave Nazi government power to ignore the constitution for 4 years while they created laws to deal w/ the country’s problems
gave Hitler’s later actions a legal basis (didn’t have to follow government or president) so he became a dictator
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Nuremberg Laws (1935) - defined who was considered Jewish (which was anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent)
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Kristallnacht (Nov. 9-10, 1938) - “night of shattered glass” Nazis burned synagogues + Jewish businesses and arrested Jews and banned them from public places
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Nuremberg Laws (1935)
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stripped Jews of their German citizenship and civil rights, and forbade marriages between Jews and German citizens
led to German Jews being required to wear yellow Stars of David and to carry identification cards saying they were Jewish
Schutzstaffeln (SS)
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head director of Heinrich Himmler, secret police force
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Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938)
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Jews were now barred from all public transportation, and public buildings (including schools and hospitals)
prohibited from owning, managing, or working in any retail store
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