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NOTES: __**4. The Nazi Rise to Power and Consolidation of the Dictatorship**__ __**Dr. Peter Black, Senior Historian**__ Pblack@ushmm.org

Museum is working on an "Introduction to the Holocaust" film for teachers. Rape wasn't used by Nazis because the Jews were seen as lower than humans

Makeshift concentration camps were opened in January 1933 Concentration camps were for forced labor, collection of prisoners, annihilation of a race of people

Concentration camp came from the Philippians camp that the Americans forced the Philippians subjects into during the occupation. The Nazis bragged that they did not invent concentration camps.

Masonic Associated with French Revolution politics and wanted a secular government Resented for their parliamentary democracy, international connections, would be more loyal to his brothers than to the national state. 36-37 Germans realized that the masons weren't a threat

Edward Black wrote "A War on the Week" about the Eugenics. Elimination of black race by sterilization in NC in the 1920's -1930's.

January 30, 1933 Hitler appointed Chancellor Nazi Nationalist Platform: Wiemar Coalition: German People's Party Catholic Center Party German Democratic Party (smallest party in Germany) Social Democrats (largest party in Germany)
 * 1) Restore German self-respect
 * 2) Get the nation back to work
 * 3) Make streets safe for German citizens
 * 4) Restore good German values
 * 5) Eliminate Communist threat

Hitler was never elected into a governmental office, he was appointed.

The Nazi's modeled some of their organization on Mussolini's party, but they didn't like each other.

Three parties outside of the coalition: Nazi Communist Nationalist

1930-1933 The Depression Nearly 30% of population was out of work

The Nazi's gained a lot of the young people because they weren't able to get jobs

Germany was a conservative state but began to come up on literature, poetry, and newspapers. Many saw this as a symptom of spiral downward of moral compass of society.

Nazi's had power but not consensus of the people. Hitler persuaded Hindenburg to appoint him chancellor because someone had burned the parliament.

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union it became a matter of survival, win and you can live as a free government or lose and live under Communist dictatorship

The Nazi's aimed at destroying the catholic church after ww2, but during the war saw it as too much of a public relations problem