Anthony, Tyaija,Maleah

HITLER MASTER PACKET

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5. For each question, make sure that EVs 1 & 2 are 2 different pieces of information that
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for additional information/directions.
Assertion 1 Idea: The Rise of HITLER
ASS 1, Q1: What was the state of Germany prior to Adolf Hitler coming to power?
Box 1 EV1:APPROVED Humiliated, early in 1919 they were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which
officially brought the conflict to a close and imposed very harsh penalties on Germany. The country had to
cede some of its best industrial territories to the victors, pay huge reparations (moneys to compensate for
the damages suffered by its opponents), and overall lost much power and prestige.
Source #: SOURCE 1
Citation: PG # 21, Nardo
Box 2 EV2: approved
In 1933, both Germany and the United states were in the grip of a severe worldwide depression
accompanied by massive unemployment, social unrest, and the loss of national confidence. In Germany, the
harsh provisions and high reparations imposed by the treaty of versailles that followed Germanys defeat in
World War 1 were an additional cause of national bitterness.

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, and Germans lacked confidence in their weak government, known as the Weimar Republic. These
conditions provided the chance for the rise of a new leader...
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Source #: 2
Citation: Berenbaum (page 13)
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671
ASS 1, Q2: How did Adolf Hitler gain support of the people?
Box 3 EV3:APPROVED back at the time , his dream was to reunite the germanic people into a mighty
empire once again . each year after beginning his rise to power,hitler staged a rally in the proud old city or
nuremberg,hitler promised the germans what they wanted and needed to hear

Source #: 2
Citation: Ayers PG#12
Box 4 EV2:APPROVED APPROVED Hitler developed a remarkable skill at this sort of manipulation and
marveled at his own ability to bend crowds to his will. His success as a demagogue laid in his ability to say
what the disaffected masses wanted to hear, to speak their language, to capture and exploit a psychology of
despair and invest it with a new hope for a phoenix-like resurgence of the nation. He was able as no one
else to give voice to popular hatreds, resentments, hopes, and expectations. He spoke more stridently, more
vehemently, more expressively and appealingly than any of those with a similar ideological message.
Source #: SOURCE 1
Citation: Nardo PG # 25
ASS 1, Q3: How did Adolf Hitler solidify power FLIP BOXES 5&6
Box 5 EV1: :APPROVED
By 1932, Hitler had enough support to run for president of Germany, though he lost the election to Paul von
Hindenburg. However, on January 30,1933, Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor of Germany. Within a
year and a half, Hindenburg had died and Hitler was able to take over both the position of president and
chancellor and combine them into one position of supreme leader, the Fhrer. After legally gaining power in
Germany, Hitler quickly began solidifying his position by putting those that disagreed with him into
concentration camps. He created massive amounts of propaganda that strengthened German pride by
blaming all their problems on communists and the jews
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Source #: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-fuehrer.html
Citation: Jennifer Rosenburg, About History
Box 6 EV2: APPROVED The Nazis did publish Hindenburg's alleged political testament...containing
complimentary references to Hitler. The testament probably was a Nazi forgery and was skillfully used as
part of the intensive propaganda campaign to get a big 'Yes' vote for Hitler in the coming plebiscite...about
95 percent of registered voters in Germany went to the polls and gave Hitler 38 million... votes (90 percent of
the vote)...Hitler could now claim he was Fhrer of the German nation with the overwhelming approval of the
people. The next day...mandatory loyalty oaths for all public officials in Germany were introduced: "I swear: I
shall be loyal and obedient to Adolf Hitler, the Fhrer of the German Reich and people, respect the laws, and

fulfill my official duties conscientiously, so help me God."

Hitler... had achieved total power in Germany.
Source #: SOURCE 3
Citation: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-fuehrer.html

Assertion 2 Idea: HITLER Maintenance of Power

ASS 2, Q1: How did DICTATORS NAME maintain control over the people/manipulate the
people to maintain control?
Box 7 EV1: APPROVED The Nazi party controlled everything: the news media, arms, police,
the armed forces, the judiciary system, communications, travel, all levels of education from
kindergarten to universities, all cultural and religious institutions. Political indoctrination started
at a very early age, and continued by means of the Hitler Youth with the ultimate goal of mind
control. Children were exhorted in school to denounce even their own parents for derogatory
remarks about Hitler or Nazi ideology.
Source #: SOURCE 6
Citation: Gavin PG # 36

Box 8 EV2:MORE ON HITLER YOUTH

Hitler's vague policy included a planned economy in which the unemployed were put to work
on government projects, working hours were shortened to open up jobs, and labor was
forbidden to organize. The government oversaw all functions of the economy. All education
and speech was controlled. Curricula and textbooks were rewritten to reflect Nazi ideology,
and all movies, newspapers, radio, and art were regulated by the vigilant Ministry of
Propaganda, under Joseph Goebbels. One of the Ministry's main tasks was to mobilize
German anti- Semitism in support of Nazi persecution of German Jews, which would reach its
climax in the Holocaust, begun in earnest in 1941.
Source #: http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/interwaryears/section10.rhtmlThe

Hitler Youth was a logical extension of Hitler's belief that the future of Nazi Germany
was its children.The Hitler Youth was seen as being as important to a child as school
was. In the early years of the Nazi government, Hitler had made it clear as to what he
expected German children to be like"The weak must be chiselled away. I want young
men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a
greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp's steel."
Source #2: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/hitler_youth.htm
ASS 2, Q2: How did Hitler improve/take steps to improve the economy?
Box 9 EV1: APPROVED Germanys economy was in a mess when Hitler was elected
Chancellor in January 1933. Hitler and Nazi propaganda had played on the populations fear
of no hope. Unemployment peaked at 6 million during the final days of the Weimar Republic
near enough 33% of the nations working population. Now Hitler decreed that all should work

in Nazi Germany and he constantly played on the economic miracle Nazi Germany achieved
This "economic miracle" was based on unemployment all but disappearing by 1939.A number
of policies were introduced which caused the unemployment figures to drop.Women were no
longer included in the statistics so any women who remained out of work under the Nazis rule
did not exist as far as the statistics were concerned

Source #: 1
Citation: historylearning site.com

Box 10 EV2:move to ass1 The history of the economic crisis in Germany before the Second
World War began with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The WWI winners
deprived the country of a part of its territories with three-quarters of iron ore reserves. German
was supposed to pay $33 billion of reparations. Germany plunged into the chaos of inflation.
One US dollar cost 4.2 trillion Deutsch Marks. People were lining up for food brings bags of
money along. That was the time when Adolf Hitler urged the nation to switch to dictatorship to
rescue the nations economy. German authorities conducted a monetary reform in 1923,
which made the economy of the country grow.

Source #: SOURCE 4
Citation: Pravada.com

Assertion 3: HITLER Fall From Power

ASS 3, Q1: When did things begin to go terribly wrong for Hitler? THIS IS AN ASS 2 Q
Box 11 EV1:Beset by a dwindling supply of manpower and ever-increasing Allied aerial and
ground attacks, the once mighty German military machine slowly began to unravel. The war of
conquest Hitler had launched in 1939 had now evolved into a struggle to save Nazi Germany
itself from annihilation. Above all, the Germans feared the colossal Russian army steadily
inching its way toward Germany from the east. After the fall of Stalingrad, German troops in
Russia had managed to regroup and go on the defensive but were continually losing
ground.The expansion of objectives was a significant factor in Germany's failure at Stalingrad.
It was based on a sort of victory fever and an underestimation of Soviet reserves. In summer
1943, Hitler decided to gamble for victory one last time in Russia, and stave off disaster for
Nazi Germany.
MORE ON THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
Source #: 1
Citation:Philip Gavin, PG # 84
Box 12 EV2:

Germany invaded Russia under Operation Barbarossa. It was one of his

greatest mistakes. With the German advance slowed by the Russians
'scorched earth' policy, the German army found themselves in the Russian
winter without an adequate supply line. In 1943, they started their long retreat.
At the same time, the Western Allies were pushing hard, and began to advance
on Germany. In response, Hitler withdrew almost entirely. It was reported he
was increasingly erratic and out-of-touch. In 1944, there was an unsuccessful
assassination attempt and, in response, Hitler stepped up the atmosphere of
suspicion and terror.

MORE ON

Source #:
Citation:
ASS 3, Q2: How did Hitler die?
Box 13 EV1: Hitler had repaired to his bunker on January 16, after deciding to remain in Berlin
for the last great siege of the war. Fifty-five feet under the chancellery (Hitlers headquarters
as chancellor), the shelter contained 18 small rooms and was fully self-sufficient, with its own
water and electrical supply. He left only rarely (once to decorate a squadron of Hitler Youth)

and spent most of his time micromanaging what was left of German defenses and
entertaining such guests as Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, and Joachim von
Ribbentrop.
Source #: 7
Citation:history.com
Box 14 EV2: On April 29th, he married his mistress. He and his new wife spent less than
forty hours together in the bunker. Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed
away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, however, in the afternoon of April 30th, individuals heard
a gunshot from the study. Hitler had shot himself, and it was assumed that his new wife
poisoned herself.
Source #: SOURCE 8
Citation: History.com