Germany’s Influence on WWIIBy Mrs. Wagaman

Bundesrespublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany)

(“Germany in the Centre of Europe.”)

Beautiful and Inspirational Land

(“Germany Landscape”)

Government • Federal multiparty republic

with two legislative houses  

• Capital: Berlin

• The population estimate- 82,490,000 in 2005

(“Thumb Tack”)

Hitler’s Rise to Power• Nazis, also known as the

“National Socialists”

• Treaty of Versailles

• “divide and rule; and, destroy your enemies one by one” (Fitzgibbon 141).

• police state

• total Nazification

(“Hitler Salute At Reichstag”)

Wartime Ordinances on Jews • Jewish Star on clothes

• Ghettos

• Forced Labor Camps

• “304, 000 emigrated during the first six years of the Nazi dictatorship, leaving only approximately 214,000 Jews in Germany” (“German Jews”).

• 160,000-180,000 German Jews killed in Holocaust (“German Jews”).

(“The Hlinka Guard”)

Hitler’s Early Success• Quickly conquered

European continent

• Land, air, and u-boats

(“German U-Boat at Night”)

The Beginning of the End• Defeat at Battle for Britain

• Invaded Soviet Union in 1941

• U.S.A. joins war in 1941

• Defeat at Stalingrad 1943

• Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945

(“Operation Barbarossa”)

Nuremberg Trials • 22 Nazi leaders

• Crimes against humanity

• 1945-1946

(“Prosecution”)

Rebuilding and Guilt• Hamburg, Germany

• Colonge, Germany

• Auschwitz trial from 1963-1965

(“Frankfurt Auschwitz trials begin”)

Citations

•Frankfurt Auschwitz trials begin. 21 Dec. 1963. Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers. Web. 20 Mar. 2012.

•German U-Boat at Night. Stuff That’s Awesome: German U-Boats. Web. 20 Mar. 2012.

•Germany in the Centre of Europe. Welcome to the German Missions in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Web. 14 Mar. 2012.

Citations•Germany Landscape. Flashscreen. Web. 14 Mar.

2012.

•Hitler Salute At Reichstag. Remembering Nazism. University of Michigan. Web. 20 Mar. 2012.

•Operation Barbarossa, 1941. The German Invasion of the Soviet Union. Web. 20 Mar. 2012.

Citations• Prosecution Reviews Nazi Chain of Command on Third Day

of IMT. 22 Nov. 1945. The Thirteen Nuremberg Trials. Harvard Law School Library. Web. 20 Mar. 2012.  

• The Hlinka Guard. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. 2008. Web. 20 Mar. 2012.

• Thumb Tack On Map – Berlin. 16 Feb. 2012. freedigitalphotos.net. Web. 20 Mar. 2012.