• Evaluate Hitler’s PERSIAM control of Germany

• The Swastika has existed in many different cultures for millenniums–Buddhist = love & mercy

or strength & intelligence–Jainism = holy symbol–Tang Dynasty 684-704 =

Sun symbol–Hinduism = represents

creator god Brahma

• "As National Socialists, we see our program in our flag. In red, we see the social idea of the movement; in white, the nationalistic idea; in the swastika, the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and always will be anti-Semitic." (Mein Kampf).

• Fascism and Nazism have the same principles except that Nazism also believes in extreme Racism

• 1st = • 2nd = • 3rd =

• Think Mussolini and Stalin• Parties?

– disbanded• Citizens’ Rights?

– suspended• Own Party Members?

– Suspicious members purged• Control Public?

– Propaganda– Terror tactics– Gestapo

• Command Capitalism…just like?

1. Public Works Programs– Gov gives jobs to

Germans– Build roads, houses,

planting– What “collar” jobs?

2. Rebuilds military– Hitler breaks something…– Who is this good for

financially?

• What was done to control society, culture and information?

• Wehrmacht = Regular Armed Forces

• Schutzstaffel – AKA…SS– Replaces the SA in 1934– Many divisions

• Gestapo is just one– Elite fighting unit in Germany military– Ran Concentration Camps

SSUniform

• Part of Hitler’s Totalitarian Rule

• Used to control Germans Politically, Socially and Intellectually

• Propaganda and Censorship stories…

• Minister of Propaganda…– Joseph Goebbels

• If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent,for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.– Joseph Goebbels

• As you watch the first two propaganda movies, write down any observations you make.

• Grade the persuasive efficiency of the propaganda movie (1-5)

• In the later movies, try to figure out what Hitler did first!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IvshwAdbLE&feature=related• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwsySS2EzgU• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGNyc_LlJhs&feature=related

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4IWbRS6mLI• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZosOAgaGiS4&feature=related• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7XSp2Y107w• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSVf-nnkhFs