Author: JOHN WISHART

Hitler became Chancellor (Leader) of Germany in 1933. He had many ideas he wanted to use in Germany. Most of his ideas were based on HATRED. He wanted to destroy all his enemies—

Those that didn't agree with HIM ( Political parties, Communists)
The people HE didn't agree with ( Jews, Communists, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Disabled people)

His ideas were :

Hitler began in 1933 by PERSECUTING his enemies
PERSECUTION is

TYPES OF PERSECUTION
The Nazis began Persecuting the Jews by introducing the _____________________Laws. These were a set of Laws designed to make life VERY difficult for the Jews in Germany. In 1928 there were over 600,000 Jews in Germany. Many were in jobs such as Business, Medicine and the Law. Many were also poor. Their life began to get very hard.
EXAMPLES OF N____________________ LAW 1.
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YOUNG PEOPLE
Even in schools Young people would be :
- Taught by Nazi teachers
- Taught Nazi ideas through lessons that were Anti Semitic and Racist
- Bullying of Jewish children was even encouraged!
EVEN out of school they were all made to attend HITLER YOUTH— Youth clubs organised by the Nazis
This brainwashing of German young people is called INDOCTRINATION—this is when a person is brainwashed into thinking a particular way.

Hitler also indoctrinated people through PROPAGANDA — This is control of the Media to put across one viewpoint. He used Newspapers, Radio, Posters, Rallies to put across his Anti Semitic and hate filled ideas.

Hitler began his campaign of hate in 1933. However for the first few years it was designed to humiliate, persecute and make things difficult. It wasn't designed to kill.
This however changed in 1938. Hitler used one incident to show the power of hatred in Germany and its results. It was to be the beginning of a 7 year campaign of GENOCIDE : The deliberate planned destruction of people based solely on their race, religion or other defining factor

In November 1938 a Nazi Diplomat was assassinated. The Nazis used this as an excuse to act against the Jews.
Jewish Shops, Businesses and Synagogues were burnt
Over 2000 people were killed in riots and state killings
‘NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS’

In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. It would go on to conquer most of Europe. In the countries it invaded it pushed the Jewish communities into Ghettos– Very cramped and sealed areas of towns and cities where they would die of Disease and Starvation. The Warsaw Ghetto alone had over 1/2 million Jews

Nazi Controlled Europe

Hitler decided the Jews were not dying fast enough in the Ghettos. He and the Nazi leadership called for the FINAL SOLUTION—The final elimination of Europe’s 11 million Jews. This was decided in 1942 at the Wannsee conference. It set in place the Final Step : The Concentration camp. It was set up in 1933 but by 1942 it was beginning the systematic killing of millions of people in purposely built death camps. People were starved, tortured or mostly gassed to death. Over 6 million Jews would die as well as countless, other victims