Nazism Fascism Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich

Nazism & Fascism Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich

Fascism • A modern political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism. • It denies individual rights. • One party rule under a dictator.

Nationalism • A belief in loyalty to ones nation or country. • To a people who you share a common history, language, ethnicity and culture. • Instead of loyalty to a King or Monarch.

The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I and was unjust to Germany. They had lost the war and had to pay a huge war debt. Germany went into a massive depression & people became desperate…. Treaty of Versailles

• Hitler was born in Austria and served in World War I. • He later joined the National Socialist German Workers Party of the Nazi Party. • They attempted to overthrow the government in 1923 in the Beer Hall Putsch. • It failed & he was imprisoned. Adolf Hitler

He was also an artist.

Mein Kampf • In prison, Hitler wrote a book called “Mein Kampf” or My Struggle. • It described his ideas of racism and of a “master race. ” • He wished to destroy inferior races & peoples that included Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, Gypsies and blacks.

The Nazi Party Takes Control Hitler was a charismatic and outstanding speaker. • He got the people of Germany to believe all their problems came from Versailles and inferiors races. • He promised to return Germany to greatness.

Totalitarian States • One party control of society and the government. • Complete authority. • No individuality. • No political or individual freedoms. • Communist in Russia. • Nazi Party in Germany. • Fascists in Italy.

The Third Reich • Hitler said his empire would rule for 1, 000 years. • Hitler soon invaded Austria , Poland, Belgium and France. • They all fell to Hitler’s Blitzkrieg or lightening war.

The Holocaust & Genocide

Genocide • Genocide is the systematic killing of an entire people. • Adolf Hitler will try and kill every Jew in Europe between 1933 to 1945. • He called it the “Final Solution”.

Anti. Semitism • Jews were forced to wear stars identifying themselves. • Eventually they were round up and all their possessions taken. • They were put on trains and sent to concentration camps throughout Europe.

Concentration Camps • Also known as death camps. • Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka were factories of death. • Hitler’s elite SS squad ran the camps (the SS were his secret police unit, which he used to control Germany).

• Victims were told they were going to shower. • They were then gassed with cyanide. • Their bodies were then burned by the million. Murder

Death Toll • 10 Million people were murdered during the Holocaust. • 6. 5 million Jews. • 3. 5 million Gypsies, Slavs, Communist, homosexuals, Czechs, Catholic priests and blacks.

Holocaust Dead • That is Ralph Wilson Stadium filled to capacity 133 times.

BAVPA • That is 555 people for every person at the HSBC Arena. • 11, 112 people for each person in this school today. • 333, 333 people for everyone in your history class.