HITLER PART IIAnti-Semitism, Rise of the Nazi Party,

Support for the Nazi Party

Anti-Semitism• Anti-Jewish prejudice was present long

before Adolf Hitler in Europe.• Jews maintained separate religious beliefs,

were culturally distinct and divided from Western beliefs.

• Jews were not allowed to own land, join the army or the learned professions, so many made a living in branches of commerce. Even after opportunities became available to them, trade and finance were attractive careers for a highly literate people.

• Before, during, and after WWI many Jews were successful businessmen, political theorists, newspaper editors, and financers in the banking sector – which incited jealousy from others.

ANTI-SEMITIC PROPOGANDAJews were portrayed

with huge hooked noses, bulging eyes,

large ears, swollen lips, unshaven beards, long hairy arms and hands,

and short crooked legs. The dominant

characteristics were swindling and sexual

perversion.

Anti-Semitic Propaganda

"Jews are our misfortune" and "How the Jew cheats." Germany, 1936.

Anti-Semitic Propaganda “The Eternal Jew”

Anti-Semitic Exhibits, Films, Books● In 1937 a propaganda exhibit entitled Der Ewige Jude (The

Wandering Jew) opened which portrayed Jews as communists, swindlers, thieves and sex-fiends. Over 150,000 people attended the exhibit in just 3 days.

• The Wandering Jew later became a notorious hate film, and associated the Jew with rats and other vermin.

• Anti-Semitic children’s books• Anti-Semitic films: The Eternal Jew, was created to justify the

separation, exclusion, and ultimately the destruction, of the Jewish people. Jews of Poland are described as filthy, sly and ugly and images of Jews are compared with rats. The goal of propaganda is action. What does one do to rats? Exterminate them, of course. This was the underlying message of the hate film.

Hitler’s Anti-Semitic Roots1. Twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Art – The Dean of the Academy

was Jewish2. While a homeless beggar in Vienna – Hitler witnessed the influx of Jewish

immigrants – as well as their success3. Looked to blame foreigners and Jews for his failures4. Uncritically read anti-Semitic pamphlets and adopted those viewpoints5. His father was fired by his Jewish boss6. His adored mother, Klara, was treated by a Jewish doctor for breast cancer but

she did not survive. The doctor left Adolf with a bill totalling 10% of her estate. This left a sour taste in his mouth, and cemented a subconscious stereotype.

7. He failed to realize some of his favourite composers and musicians were Jewish; his WWI leader in command was Jewish; and he was saved while on the streets by a Jewish charity group.

8. Hitler’s WWI Conspiracy Theory – Germany had not been defeated on the battlefield but had been brought

down by liberal, socialist and Communist subversives on the home front. He blamed Jews for Germany’s WWI defeat.

Hitler’s Autobiography: Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

• Hitler wrote Mein Kampf while in prison in 1924. He argued that the German, Aryan race was superior to all others. “Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science and technical skill, which we see before our eyes today, is almost exclusively the product of Aryan creative power.”

• Hitler warned that the Aryan's superiority was being threatened by intermarriage.

• Although other races would resist this process, the Aryan race had a duty to control the world. This would be difficult and force would have to be used, but it could be done.

• Aryan superiority was being threatened particularly by the Jewish race who, he argued, were lazy and had contributed little to world civilization.

• Hitler also claimed that Jews, who were only about 1% of the population, were slowly taking over the country.

• Hitler believed that the Jews were involved with Communists in a joint conspiracy to take over the world.

Anti-Semitic Quotes: Adolf Hitler

• "His is no master people; he is an exploiter: the Jews are a people of robbers. He has never founded any civilization, though he has destroyed civilizations by the hundred ... everything he has stolen. Foreign people, foreign workmen build him his temples, it is foreigners who create and work for him, it is foreigners who shed their blood for him."

• "The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion"

Anti-Semitic Quotes: Adolf Hitler

• "The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew" (Mein Kampf, Chap. 11)

• "With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people" (Mein Kampf, Chap. 11). – Here Hitler states that the most powerful tool that the mongrel Jew

uses against the White race is that of mongrelization or race-mixing.

RISE OF THE NAZI PARTY

Few would have thought that the Nazi Party, starting as a

gang of unemployed soldiers in 1919, would become the

legal government of Germany by 1933. In fourteen years, a once obscure corporal, Adolf

Hitler , would become the Chancellor of Germany

RISE OF THE NAZI PARTY25 Points Platform - 1920

The German Workers' Party political platform included: 1. The unification of all Germans in a greater German Reich2. Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles3. The demand for additional territories for the German people4. Citizenship determined by race with no Jew to be considered a

German5. All income not earned by work to be confiscated6. Religious freedom except for religions which endanger the German

race7. A strong central government for the execution of effective legislation.

RISE OF THE NAZI PARTY

• 1921 – Hitler succeeds as the leader of the Nazi Party• 1923 - Hitler's attempts an armed overthrow of local

authorities in Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch and fails miserably. – The Nazi Party seemed doomed to fail and its leaders, including Hitler, were

subsequently jailed and charged with high treason. – Hitler used the courtroom at his public trial as a propaganda platform, ranting

for hours– Hitler actually gains support for his courage to act. The right-wing presiding

judges sympathizes with Hitler and sentences him to only five years in prison.– Hitler was released from prison after 9 months.

• 1924 – While in jail, Hitler writes Mein Kampf• 1925 – Once released, Hitler begins a mass movement to

strengthen and centralize the Nazi party. From 27,000 members in 1925, the Party grew to 130,000 in 1929.

RISE OF THE NAZI PARTY

• 1925-1929 – Hitler uses several tactics to build up Nazi Party support:

1. SA: Secret Army Street brawling, terror, and elimination of competition

2. Party propaganda: Leaflets, posters, rally speeches, films, & radio

3. Fuelled anti-Semitism4. Auxiliary Groups: Example - Hitler Youth5. Awareness of German animosity towards the Treaty of

Versailles

Hitler’s Final Rise to Power: 1933-1934

• With over 400,000 party members, Hitler was appointed Chancellor (Head of German Government and Administration)

• Once in office, he quickly secured almost unlimited power through manipulation and terror

• Once the President of Germany, Paul Von Hindenburg died in 1934 Hitler became Fuhrer.

• Governmental practice was changed, with a law being passed which allowed the Nazis to pass laws without parliamentary approval.

• They later banned all other political parties, turning Germany into a one-party state.

Hitler’s Youth

Hitler’s Youth“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future”- Adolf Hitler, 1935

"A violently active, dominating, intrepid, brutal youth -- that is what I am after. Youth must be all those things. It must be indifferent to pain. There must be no weakness or tenderness in it ... I intend to have an athletic youth--that is the first and the chief thing... I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin to my young men."

By 1939, about 90% of the "Aryan" children in Germany belonged to Nazi youth groups. A massive propaganda campaign was aimed at Germany's youth.

HITLER’S YOUTH

How Hitler controlled the German youth1. Represented himself as a ‘father figure’2. Silenced all opposition and negative portrayals of himself3. Kept kids occupied with an organized program4. Attempted to make them as ignorant as possible5. Gathered children together in frequent rallies6. Used uniforms to force “uniformed thinking”7. Made blaming the Jews simplistic8. Kept them as impoverished and disadvantaged as possible9. Propaganda programs10. Mein Kampf

Hitler’s Successful Persuasion …Why Everyone Went Along …

1. Jews were used as scapegoats for all of Germany’s hardships .2. In hating Jews, the German population was unified. 3. Dictatorship & Fear: A visible scapegoat experiencing the wrath of the state is a good way

to keep people from stepping out of line.4. Lies and Propaganda.5. Eliminate Alternatives, Eliminate Opposition.6. The S.A. and the Gestapo .7. Supreme ‘Master Race’ – Many Germans were a part of it. 8. He promised Germans glory, jobs, prosperity, and potential to rule the world when they

were hopeless after WWI and Treaty of Versailles.9. He turned racism into governmental policy.10. Citizens were willing to follow anyone who told them their country was great, there was

hope, there were jobs, their problems were caused by someone else, and that there was a bright future.

11. He was organized, determined, passionate, exciting, and hypnotizing.12. He came through on his promises.13. If you hear something over and over again, you begin to believe it.14. He told lies, he was deceitful, his true intentions were keep secret during elections.14. They didn’t know his intentions, or what he was fully capable of.

HITLER FOOTAGE

• Hitler’s Youth Summer Camp• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwL8rMvS3X4&featu

re=related• Hitler speaks to his military • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9fEM-MfSiU&featur

e=related• Footage of Hitler’s Speeches• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhVM0HmGado&feat

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