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Adolf Hitler- MASTER PACKET

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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 territories to the victors, pay huge reparations, and overall lost
much power and prestige. The traumatic effect the loss of the war had on the German people cannot
be overstressed.
ADD MORE ABOUT THE WAR REPARATIONS

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Source #: Book Resource 1
Citation: Heroes and Villains : Adolf Hitler PG 21
Box 2 EV2: APPROVED 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, 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, Adolf Hitler, and his
party, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi party for short.
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Citation: Frank McDonough, The Rise of the Nazi Party pg 67

ASS 1, Q2: How did Adolf Hitler gain support of the people?
Box 3 EV1:By the end of 1920 Nazi party membership had grown to 3000, largely as a result of
hitlers public speeches and his energetic propaganda efforts. By this time Hitler had surrounded
himself with a team who became the nucleus of the Nazi Party.
Citation: AUTHOR, PG #Frank McDonough and the Rise of the nazi party pg 72
Nazism built its support by tapping into negative feelings of certain sections of German society
towards such things as the harsh terms of the Versailles treaty..High inflation and the the instability of
democratic government, the economic positions position of jews in german society and the growth of
a vibrant communist movement. Nazi ideology pointed to the enemies inside Germany for the first
time and when the world economic system was greatly trained by the consequences of the first World
War.

YOU NEED PROPER PUNCTUATION AND YOU NEED TO CAPITALIZE PROPER NOUNS. I
WILL NOT APPROVE OF IT UNTIL THEN

I NEED TO KNOW WHICH PART COMES FROM WHICH PAGE PUT A CITATION UNDER EACH
DIFFERENT AREA
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Source #: INSERT SOURCE # 2
Citation: Frank McDonough and the Rise of the nazi party pg 51
Box 4 EV2: APPROVED Hitler understood that a leader must reach the people personally. He also
understood that the radio was a powerful political tool because it brought his voice into the homes of
ordinary people, making them feel close and connected to him. Not every German family could afford
a radio, but those who could gathered around, eager to hear what the new chancellor would say.
Hitler was an exciting speaker. His voice captivated his listeners. He seemed to know just the right
note, the right word or phrase to rouse the emotions of his audience.
Source #: Book
Citation: Susan Campbell Bartoletti (P.19)
ASS 1, Q3: How did Adolf Hitler solidify power?
Box 5 EV1: APPROVED
On February 27, 1933less than a month after Hitler had been named chancellorthe Reichstag
building burned down; blame fell on a young Dutch communist, but it may have been a Nazi plot.
Hitler seized the opportunity to convince members of the Reichstag to approve an emergency decree
that that legalized Nazi thuggery. Soon, he convinced the center-to-right parties of the Reichstag to

grant the government the freedom to decree laws without parliamentary approval for the next four
years. By July 1933 all political parties except the NSDAP had been dissolved. Following the death of
President von Hindenburg in August 1934, Hitler combined the roles of chancellor and president and
assumed control of the countrys military forces. With complete control of the country, Hitler initiated a
new German society that became known as the Third Reich; he proclaimed it would last 1,000 years.
Not content to rule Germany, he followed a policy of Lebensraum (living room) to seize lands outside
Germany to allow the German people to expand their living space.

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Source #: WEBSITE
Citation: http://www.historynet.com/adolph-hitler

Box 6 EV2: APPROVED

As an early indication of the tactics Hitler would employ to ensure he remained in power, this ably
demonstrates how ruthless he had become ..., on 2 August 1934, president Von Hindenburg died.
Within an hour of his passing it was decreed that the office of president would now be merged with
that of the chancellor and that Hitler would not only be head of state, but also supreme commanderin-chief of the armed forces.
Source #: Book
Citation: Shelly Klein (58)

Assertion 2 Idea: Adolf Hitler Maintenance of Power

ASS 2, Q1: How did Adolf Hitler use his military to maintain control/expand his reign?
Box 7 EV1: NOT APPROVING THIS UNTIL THE CITATION IS FIXED
His expansion was bloodless. He renounced the terms of the Treaty of Versailles that had
ended the Great War and reclaimed land that had been ceded to France. When German
tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia, it was to "liberate" the Sudetenland where the population
waslargely German. The Czechs expected Britain and France to stand by agreements to
protect the country, but with memories of the slaughter that had marked the First World War,

those countries chose to negotiate a settlement that preserved "peace in our time" at the
expense of the Czechs. Austria was the next country annexed.
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Source #: WEBSITE
Citation: http://www.historynet.com/adolph-hitler

ASS 2, Q2: How did Adolf Hitler maintain control over the people/manipulate the people to
maintain control? He put the people of Germany to work and punished those who had
disagreements with him.
Box 9 EV1: At this point in his career, Hitler began to unleash his propaganda upon all of Germany.
He had previously used his persuasiveness to further himself in the Nazi Party and to gain supporters,
but it was not until he was dictator that that his persuasive style was fully manifested, Freud went on
to say that groups show an unmistakable picture of a regression of mental their own well-being;
whereas groups are unintelligent and easily persuaded. Sigmund Freud stated that groups tend to have
the characteristics of weakness of intellectual ability,lack of emotional restraint,...incapacity for
moderation and delay, [and] the inclination to exceed every limit in the expression of emotion.
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Citation: http://joshwilmoth.hubpages.com/hub/Adolf-Hitlers-Tremendous-Persuasive-Ability
Resource: WEBSITE

ASS 1 IDEA: Hitlers fall from power

Question 1: When did things go terribly wrong for Hitler

Question 2: How did military losses in WWII affect the stability of rule?
The people of Germany came to a decision that Hitler wasnt right for Germany and its
people.
EV:

Box 10 EV2 MOVE he 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.Germany suffered most from the Great Depression in the United States in 1929. The economic setback in the
United States deprived Germany of the source of finance. The frequent change of governments in the nation
exacerbated the situation even more. Adolf Hitler became Germanys fifth chancellor on January 30, 1933 .
Everyone hoped that Hitler would stay at power for a couple of months, like his four predecessors, but Hitler gave
all of them something to remember.

Citation: http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/02-07-2009/107924-hitler-0/
Source: website

Assertion 3: Adolf Hitler Fall From Power

ASS 3, Q1: How did military losses in WWII affect the stability of Adolf Hitler rule? His people had
lost hope in him and Germany began to lose power.
Box 11 EV1:GIVE ME A DATE
Many german generals had long before this recognized that their cause was hopeless, and the new
enemy onslaught only reinforced this conclusion. But Hitler refused to consider any notions of defeat
or surrender; it would be better if every man, woman, and child in Germany died, he told some of
associates. Fed up with the fuhrers fatalistic attitude, a group of officers decided to take matters into
their own hands. They were led by Colonel Claus S. von Stauffenberg. He came to the conclusion
that Hitlers lunatic disregard for human decency had so besmirched the the name of the German
fatherland that it stank in the nostrils of civilized men everywhere. He would assassinate this
madman and bring an end to the senseless war.

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Source : Heroes and Villains: Adolf Hitler

Citation: AUTHOR, PG # Don Nardo PG 84
Box 12 EV2 APPROVED:German forces were defeated at the Battle of Stalingrad, the first major defeat
Germany suffered in the war. In North Africa, Britain defeated Germany at the battle of El Alamein,
thwarting Hitler's plans of seizing the Suez Canal and the Middle East. These defeats were a key turning
point in the war. After these, Hitler's military decisions became increasingly erratic, as Germany's military
and economic position deteriorated. His health was deteriorating too: his left hand had started shaking,
and he found it difficult to control. GIVE ME DATES

Source #: WEBSITE source 9 Citation: http://www.nazism.net/about/adolf_hitler/

ASS 3, Q2: How does Adolf Hitler die? Suicide, Ballistic Trauma.
Box 13 EV1:By April 25, 1945 with Berlin completely surrounded and the Berghof being
bombarded,... Adolf had married Eva. Despite heavily shelling outside the bunker, the couple
exchanged vows and received the congratulations of those still present Those present in the
bunker reported hearing a single shot at approximately 3:30 p.m. a few moments later SS leader
Otto Gunsche entered Hitlers suite and found his body on the sofa, soaked in blood, a bullet
through his head. Beside him lay Evas body; she had swallowed a capsule of poison.
Source #: Book
Citation: (104) Eleanor H. Ayer

Box 14 EV2:
(April 30th, 1945)Hitler swallowed a lethal dose of cyanide, after which Eva shot him in the left
temple with a revolver. Then she took the same poison, curled up beside him, and expired. Some
subordinates carried the bodies up to the chancellery courtyard, soaked them in gasoline and set
them ablaze.

HITLER CANNOT DIE TWICE

Source #: INSERT SOURCE # 1
Citation: AUTHOR, PG # Don Nardo PG 90