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In the early 1930s, the mood in Germany was grim. The worldwide economic depression had
hit the country especially hard, and millions of people were out of work. Still fresh in the minds
of many was Germany's humiliating defeat fifteen years earlier during World War I,7 and
Germans lacked confidence in their weak government, known as the Weimar Republic. The
mood in Germany was grim. Many Germans could not accept that they had lost the war. The
blame was put on weak politicians rather than on military exhaustion. In the space of two
months, Germany had gone from being a fighting nation to a defeated one; from a nation with a
leader Kaiser William II to one with politicians leading the country.
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Germany entered depression following WW1. Mainly due to the War Guilt Clause on
the Treaty of Versaille . Under the War Guilt Clause Germany was to take sole
responsibility for the war , and made to pay reparations ( money ) to the allies. By the
allies stripping Germany of its land in the Pacific , Germany now had no possibly way
to pay back the allies. Due to humiliation by the treaty the people of Germany felt a
deep hatred towards the Allies and they would know be willing to listen to one man no
matter how crazy who promised them an end to poverty , and humiliation Adolf Hitler.
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These conditions provided the chance for the rise of a new leader, Adolf Hitler, and his
party, the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Hitler was a powerful and
spellbinding speaker who attracted a wide following of Germans desperate for change.
He promised the disenchanted a better life and a new and glorious Germany.
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He also promised to re-arm Germany, contrary to the Treaty. By recruiting a large army
and building a whole new navy and air force, Hitler would be able to reduce
unemployment. This promise made him popular both with some sections of the
unemployed and the military.
Hitlers promise of strong government and stability was widely supported particularly by
industrialists, who were terrified of the left wing unions and communism. Particularly
after the Wall Street Crash, many big businessmen made huge donations to the Nazi
Party.
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Anxious to regain power, von Papen struck a deal to make Hitler Chancellor, with
himself as Vice-Chancellor. The moderate parties would hold all but three of the
government posts, which would go to the Nazis; one of these would be Hitler as
Chancellor.
The moderate parties would hold all but three of the government posts, which would go
to the Nazis; one of these would be Hitler as Chancellor.
So on 30 January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. The SS (Schutzstaffel
or 'Blackshirts') began as Hitler's bodyguard. After 1929 its leader, Heinrich Himmler,
turned it into a powerful organisation of fanatical, elite Nazis. In 1934 it was used to
eliminate the leaders of the SA (Brownshirts). It went on to spy on other Nazis, destroy
all opposition, and carry out genocide against the Jews and gypsies. SS groups
included the:
* Gestapo (secret police) which could imprison people without trial and send them to
concentration camps, wielding unlimited power.
* 'Death's Head' units which guarded concentration camps and ran the gas chambers.
* Einsatzgruppen (action squads) which killed Jews, gypsies, priests and anyone brave
enough to oppose the Nazis in occupied lands.
* The state is born out of the necessity of ordering the community of the Volk in
accordance with certain laws.Its characteristic attribute is power over every branch of
the community. The state has the right to demand of every racial comrade
[Volksgenosse] that he live according to the law. Whoever violates the laws of the state
will be punished. The state has officials to execute its laws and regulations. The
constitution of the state is the basis for its legislation. The state embodies power!
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In 1933 Enabling Law allows Hitler to pass laws

without discussion by Reichstag. Allows Hitler to establish a legal dictatorship.The

Nuremberg Laws did not identify a "Jew" as someone with particular religious beliefs.
Instead, the first amendment to the Nuremberg Laws defined anyone who had three or
four Jewish grandparents as a Jew, regardless of whether that individual recognized
himself or herself as a Jew or belonged to the Jewish religious community.

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On this day in 1935, Adolf Hitler ordered the rearmament of the German army, even
though it was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles, signed after Germany lost World
War I. This treaty was very unfavorable to Germany. Namely, according to it, the
German army could number only up to 100,000 men and a maximum of six warships,
was not allowed to keep submarines, armed aircraft, tanks, or armored vehicles. A big
constraint was a ban on the import and export of weapons. Hitler simply ignored all
these provisions, and the Allies had no way to oppose him. The engagement of
German industry in weapons production largely pulled the country out of an economic
crisis that had lasted from 1929. Almost full employment was achieved. At the same
time, the Germans regained their national self-confidence when their army became
able to compete with other world powers. The war machine that was then created
conquered a big part of Europe at the beginning of World War II.
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On 12 March 1938 the Nazis annexed Austria. Later that year they marched into the
Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia, and on 15 March 1939 the German army invaded the
rest of Czechoslovakia. This brought over half a million Jews under German control. The
German invasion of Western Poland on 1 September 1939 led to the start of the Second World
War (WW2). Between 1939 and June 1941 the German army invaded and occupied many
countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Yugoslavia,
Greece, Norway and Western Poland. By this time many millions of Jews were living in
territories under German control. The experience of Jews in countries that were invaded and
occupied by the Nazis was often quite similar to that of the Jews within Germany. However,
what was different was the speed at which the Nazis enacted anti-Jewish measures.

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He also moved carefully to organize the police power necessary to enforce his long-term policies of
"racial" purification and European conquest both inside and outside the legal framework of the
German constitution first advocated the use of propaganda to spread the ideals of National
Socialismamong them racism, antisemitism, and anti-Bolshevism.... propaganda campaigns
created an atmosphere tolerant of violence against Jews Propaganda also encouraged passivity
and acceptance of the impending measures against Jews, as these appeared to depict the Nazi
government as stepping in and restoring order. the Nazi regime could arrest and detain people
without cause and without limits on the length of incarceration
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Hitler and the Nazi regime also resorted to simple and extralegal terror to intimidate opponents.
Nazi paramilitary formations, such as the Storm Detachments (Sturmabteilung or SA, more
commonly known as Storm Troopers) and the Protection Squads (Schutzstaffelor SS), had been
established during the 1920s to terrorize political opponents and to protect Nazi leaders. After the
Nazis came to power, many members of these units were recruited as auxiliary policemen and given
license to arbitrarily beat or kill persons they deemed to be opponents. In addition, Nazi party
faithful, in individual spontaneous acts of violence or in locally organized waves of persecution,
assaulted those they perceived to be enemies of the regime.
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The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of
the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within
Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been core policy of the Nazi
movement since the 1920s. Adolf Hitler had always regarded the German-Soviet
nonaggression pact, signed on August 23, 1939, as a temporary tactical maneuver.
Germanys army was stretched thin and was fighting on three fronts.
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Instead, they dutifully planned the invasion of Russia, knowing the attack would unleash an
unprecedented wave of murder. They set up new defensive positions, not to be yielded until every
last soldier was killed. They also began their first-ever counter-attacks against the advancing
Germans. As a result, with each passing day the Germans began to lose momentum. They could no
longer easily blow through the Russian defenses and had to be wary of counter-strikes. All the while,
German foot soldiers were becoming increasingly fatigued.In the bloodied fields of snow around
Moscow, Adolf Hitler had suffered a breathtaking defeat.

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the quality of Hitler's military judgment became increasingly erratic and Germany's
military and economic position deteriorated. Hitler's health was deteriorating, too. His
left hand started shaking uncontrollably. The biographer Ian Kershaw believes he
suffered from Parkinson's disease. Other conditions that are suspected by some to
have caused some of his symptoms are methamphetamine addiction and syphilis.
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Suicide, but some would say he is still alive. Goebbels went into Hitlers room and
found Hitler on the sofa, dead from a gunshot wound to his right temple.
Death of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Fhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (ne
Braun) committed suicide with him by taking cyanide.
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