The document summarizes key events in Germany after World War 1 and the rise of the Nazi party. It discusses the harsh Treaty of Versailles, economic crisis of the Weimar Republic, Hitler's rise to power by promising to restore Germany's economy and territory. Once in power, the Nazis dismantled democracy and established a racist state that systematically persecuted and killed Jews and other groups considered "undesirable". The Nazis also indoctrinated German youth and tightly controlled education, media, and all aspects of society to spread Nazi ideology.
4. • Between Central power
and Allies
• Central power lost.
• Central power:-Germany,
Ottoman Empire and
Austrian Empire
• Allies:-Great Britain,
France, Belgium and
Russia
• After war Monarchy in
Germany quits
5. Birth of the Weimar Republic
After War
•Parliamentary parties
recast German Polity
•A national Assembly
met at Weimar to
design a constitution
•Deputies were elected
to German Parliament
(Reichstag)
• Democratic
Constitution with
Federal Structure
• Universal Adult
Franchise was
granted
6. Treaty of Versailles
• Harsh and Humiliating
• Germany lost overseas
colonies
• 13% territories
• 75% iron field
• 26% coal field
• Germany was
Demilitarised
• Had to pay compensation
of £6 billion
• Lost rich Rhineland(1920)
9. • Germany was dependent on short term loan
from USA
• USA withdrew support as crash in wall Street
Exchange in 1929
• Between 1929-32 the national income of USA
fell by half and effects fell worldwide.
• The middle class and working class population
were filled with fear of Prolerterianization
• Sharp fall in agricultural price
• Sense of deep despair crippled the people
10. Defects of
Weimar Republic
• Proportional
Representation
• No majority party
which led coalition govt
• Article-48, President
got power to impose
emergency ,suspend
civil rights and rule by
Decree
• People lost confidence
in the democratic
parliament
•Politically fragile
•The constitution
was Vulnerable to
dictatorship
11. • Industrial Production reduced
• Workers lost jobs
• Youth took to criminal activities
• Small business man and self employed suffered
as their business got ruined
• They became unable to their family
• The economic crisis created fear in people
• People lost faith in the democratic
parliamentary system
• A total unrest among people developed slowly
12.
13. Hitler’s rise to
power
• The treaty of Versailles made
him furious
• Joined in German workers
party and renamed as
National Socialist German
Workers Party
• Later it known as Nazi Party
• By 1932 it became a large
party with 37% votes
• During great depression
Nazism became mass
movement
• Propagated for better future
*Born in Austria
1889
*Earned Bravery
medals in WW-I
*Horrified by
German’s defeat
14. *Good orator
*Promised for a strong nation with
economic flourish
*Rituals and spectacle in mass
mobilization
*Massive rallies with Swastika, Red
banners, Pamphlets and Ritualized
rounds of applause
*Nazi propaganda skilfully projected him
as a messiah, a Saviour
15. The destruction of Democracy
• On 30th Jan. 1933 Hitler was offered the
Chancellorship by president Hindenburg
• He set out to dismantle the democratic structure
• The fire decree of 28th Feb. 1933 suspended civic
rights like freedom of speech, press and assembly
• Communists were hurriedly packed off to newly
established concentration camps
• All political parties were banned
• Special surveillance and security forces were created
control the people and rule with impunity
16.
17. Police force under Nazi
• Regular police:-Green uniform
Storm troopers(SA, Sturmabteilung):-
Existing police force includes
*Gestapo:-Secrete state police
*SS(Schutzstaffel):-Protection Squad
*SD(Sicherheitsdienst):- Security
Service and criminal police
18. Reconstruction of Germany
• Reoccupied the Rhineland in
1936
• Pull out of the League of
Nation in 1933
• Integrated Austria and
German in 1938(one people,
one empire, one leader)
• Acquired German speaking
Sudetenland from
Czechoslovakia
• Unspoken support from
England
• War to recover Economic
Crisis
*Economist Hjalmar was given
the responsibility of Economic
Recovery
*The state funded work
creation programme initiated to
ensure full production and
employment
*Produced the famous German
super highways and people’s
car, the Volkswagen
19. • Accumulation of Resources trough Expansion of
Territory.
• Sept. 1940 invaded Poland
• War with France and England
• Japan extended support to Hitler
• Bombarded Perl Harbour and USA entered the
War
• War ended with Hitler's Defeat.
• USA bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Japan surrendered 2nd Step 1945.
20. • According to Nazi
ideology
– No equality between
people
– Only racial hierarchy
– Nordic German
Aryans were at the
top
– Jews were at the
lowest
– Others were in
between them
• Hitler's racism was
borrowed from
• Charles Darwin’s
concept of
evaluation and
natural selection
• Herbert Spencer's idea
of survival of the fittest
• Strongest race
would survive and
week ones would
perish
21. • New territories had to be acquired for
settlement.
• Enhance the area of the mother country
• Enhance the material resources
• Enhance the power of German Nation
• Poland became the laboratory for this
experimentation.
22. Establishment of Racial State
• Creating an exclusive
racial community of pure
Germans
• A society of pure and
healthy Nordic Aryans
• Euthanasia Programme:-
killed mentally or
physically unfit people
• Elimination of
‘Undesirable’.
• Undesirable:-Jews,
Gypsies, Blacks, Russian.
Poles even certain
Germans
• Jews were considered killer
of Christ and Usurers
• Jews had to live in Ghettos
• Jews were hatred based on
pseudoscientific theories of
race
• Believed in total elimination
of Jews
• From 1933-38 the Nazi
terrorise, pauperised and
segregated the Jews.
• 1939-45 concentration of
Jews and killing in gas
Chambers in Poland
23. • Genocide and War
became two sides of one
coin
• Occupied Poland and
divided
• Poles were forced to leave
their homes and property
• Educated poles were
murdered
• Created General
Government:- Destination
for all ‘Undesirable’
• Appointed ‘Race
Experts’ to
examine Polish
children looking
like Aryans
• Ghettos, Gas
chambers as
well as General
Government too
served as killing
fields for Jews
24. Youth in Nazi Germany
• Nazi ideology was taught to the children
• Schools were ‘cleansed’ and ‘Purified’ by dismissing Jews
teachers as they believed to be ‘politically undesirable’
• Undesirable children such as Jews, Physically
handicapped, Gypsies were thrown out to the schools
and later (1940s) taken them to Gas Chambers
• A prolong period of ideological training for good German
students
• Introduced racial science
• Children were taught to be royal, submissive, hate Jews
and worship Hitler
• Sports to violence and aggression
25. Youth Organisation
Educating German Youth in the ‘Spirit of National socialism’
• Jungvolk:- For ten years
old children
• Hitler Youth:- For 14 years
old Children
(Youth League founded in 1922,
later renamed as Hitler Youth)
• Labour Service:- For 18
years youths
>They were to learn
* To worship war
* To glorify
aggression and
violence
* Condemn democracy
*Hate Jews, communists,
gypsies and undesirables
>They had to serve in Arm
Forces and enter one of
the Nazi organisation
> Later all youth organisations
were systematically dissolved
and finally banned.
28. The Art of
Propaganda
Used deceptive term such as-
*Special treatment/Final
solution:-Mass kilning(Jews)
* Euthanasia:- Killing of Disable
*Selection and Disinfection:-
Evacuation and deporting to gas
chambers.
*Disinfected areas:-Gas chambers
• Nazi ideas were spread through
visual image, films, radio, posters,
catchy slogans and leaflets
• Film, ‘The eternal Jew’ was to
stereotyped orthodox Jews
• German Jews were referred as
Vermin, Rats and Pests
• Claimed that solution of all
problems was only the Nazi
Used language
and media with
great care and
effect
29. Ordinary people and the Crime
against Humanity
• People saw the world
through Nazi eyes and spoke
the Nazi language
• Believed that Nazi would
bring Prosperity and well
being
• Charlotte Beradt
secretly recorded
people's dream in her
diary
• Later published as
‘Third Reich of Dreams’
• But not every Germany was
Nazi and faced repression
and death
• Jews themselves begun
believing the Nazi
stereotyped
• Some were passive
onlookers and apathetic
witness
• Many Jews died before
reaching Gas Chamber
30. Knowledge
about Holocaust
• Mass Nazi killing operation
called Holocaust was
revealed.
• Evidences such as diary,
notebooks achieves (by
inhabitant in ghetto, Gas
chambers) exposed the
secrete
• Nazi tried to destroy all
evidences available in
offices
• Yet, the memory of the
Holocaust live in memories,
Fiction, Documents, Poetry,
Museums in many parts of the
world
*After the War world
came to know about
the Black Chapter of
Nazi Germany
*Jews wanted the world
to member this
atrocities happened
with them