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Dictator: Adolf Hitler Answer the following: Where? When? What were his Major Beliefs? Why did people follow him? What makes him a DICTATOR?

Dictator: Adolf Hitler Answer the following: Where? When? What were his Major Beliefs? Why did people follow him? What makes him a DICTATOR?

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Dictator: Adolf Hitler Answer the following: Where? When? What were his Major Beliefs? Why did people follow him? What makes him a DICTATOR?
Adolf Hitler By the early 1930s, Germany was in desperate shape. Its defeat in World War I and the Great Depression left it impoverished with sky-high inflation eating away at its economy. It all made for fertile ground for Hitler's radical nationalist ideology. The Nazis (short for National Socialists) promised to stop reparation payments, to give all Germans jobs and food, and to make them proud to be German again. And they blamed Jews for most of Germany's problems. By 1930, when the Nazis won 18 percent of the vote, it was effectively impossible to govern Germany without Nazi support. And that led to President Hindenburg's gamble to appoint Hitler Chancellor in January 1933. Undesirables Within months, the first concentration camp was opened in the town of Dachau. The first prisoners were political opponents of Hitler. But it wasn't long before other groups that the Nazis deemed undesirable were rounded up and sent away: in particular, Jews, homosexuals, and gypsies. The Nazis believed that Germans, part of what they called the Aryan race, were racially superior to Jews. In 1935, their racist beliefs became official German policy with the passage of the Nuremberg laws, which stripped German Jews of citizenship and laid the groundwork for the horrors to follow. At the same time, Hitler was moving Germany steadily toward war. In 1935, he began rebuilding Germany's military, in violation of the Versailles treaty. In 1938, he annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, a region of western Czechoslovakia where many ethnic Germans lived, making both part of Germany. World War II Begins Then, on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany launched a surprise attack on Poland and conquered it so quickly that the term blitzkrieg, or "lightning war," was coined. On September 3, after Germany ignored their demands to withdraw, Britain and France declared war. World War II had begun. By 1942, a year after Germany began implementing the Final Solution-detailed plans for the systematic extermination of all of Europe's Jews. The Germans herded them into crowded ghettos in preparation for mass deportations to concentration camps across Europe, where they died of disease, starvation, and overwork, or were systematically murdered in the gas chambers. Six million Jews-the vast majority of Europe's Jewish community-ultimately perished in the Holocaust. By the time the war in Europe (and in the Pacific, the war against Japan) ended in 1945, 48 million people worldwide had died, and much of Europe was in ruins.
Transcribed Image Text:Adolf Hitler By the early 1930s, Germany was in desperate shape. Its defeat in World War I and the Great Depression left it impoverished with sky-high inflation eating away at its economy. It all made for fertile ground for Hitler's radical nationalist ideology. The Nazis (short for National Socialists) promised to stop reparation payments, to give all Germans jobs and food, and to make them proud to be German again. And they blamed Jews for most of Germany's problems. By 1930, when the Nazis won 18 percent of the vote, it was effectively impossible to govern Germany without Nazi support. And that led to President Hindenburg's gamble to appoint Hitler Chancellor in January 1933. Undesirables Within months, the first concentration camp was opened in the town of Dachau. The first prisoners were political opponents of Hitler. But it wasn't long before other groups that the Nazis deemed undesirable were rounded up and sent away: in particular, Jews, homosexuals, and gypsies. The Nazis believed that Germans, part of what they called the Aryan race, were racially superior to Jews. In 1935, their racist beliefs became official German policy with the passage of the Nuremberg laws, which stripped German Jews of citizenship and laid the groundwork for the horrors to follow. At the same time, Hitler was moving Germany steadily toward war. In 1935, he began rebuilding Germany's military, in violation of the Versailles treaty. In 1938, he annexed Austria and the Sudetenland, a region of western Czechoslovakia where many ethnic Germans lived, making both part of Germany. World War II Begins Then, on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany launched a surprise attack on Poland and conquered it so quickly that the term blitzkrieg, or "lightning war," was coined. On September 3, after Germany ignored their demands to withdraw, Britain and France declared war. World War II had begun. By 1942, a year after Germany began implementing the Final Solution-detailed plans for the systematic extermination of all of Europe's Jews. The Germans herded them into crowded ghettos in preparation for mass deportations to concentration camps across Europe, where they died of disease, starvation, and overwork, or were systematically murdered in the gas chambers. Six million Jews-the vast majority of Europe's Jewish community-ultimately perished in the Holocaust. By the time the war in Europe (and in the Pacific, the war against Japan) ended in 1945, 48 million people worldwide had died, and much of Europe was in ruins.
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