propaganda and nuremberg laws
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Life in Nazi Germany
What was life like in Nazi Germany?
Hitler Consolidates Power• President Hindenberg dies in 1934 – Hitler names himself President• Hitler becomes Fuhrer (Supreme Leader) – Rudolf Hess: Dep. Fuhrer• Hitler bans all other political parties
• A branch of the SS was a secret police force known as the Gestapo
• Gestapo kept everyday citizens in order by terrorizing them into obedience
• Heinrich Himmler will run an elite black-uniformed unit called the SS, which would eliminate Hitler’s political enemies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sKyAmzeDVI&feature=related
• 1933: Hitler appoints Joseph Goebbels as Minister of Propaganda
Ministry of Propaganda
• Children joined the Hitler Youth or League of German Girls
• Propaganda used to promote Reich and blame Jews/others for pre-war problems
• Goebbels orders the burning of books written by Jews or anti-Nazi authors
Nazi Propaganda #1
1. Describe cover of the book and the adult in the book.
2. What is the author of this book trying to teach German children?
A German children’s book titled: The Poisonous Mushroom
Nazi Propaganda #2Translation: The Jewish worm
makes his move
1. Describe the worm, what is he doing?
2. What is the poster trying to say?
Dollar sign
Hammer & Sickle
Nuremberg Laws• 1935: two sets of laws passed in Germany defining race & citizenship
1) Protection of German Blood & Honor – 1935 • Racial categories: German, Jew, & Mischling (grade 1 & 2)
2) Reich Citizenship Law - 1935
• Must be German to be citizen
• Law forbids the marriage of Jews to non-Jews
• Only citizens have full rights
Film Clip Question:
How did Stephan Lux bring the issue of Jewish persecution to the attention of the world?
Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass”
• 1938: a 17-year old Jewish man shoots a German diplomat, (upset his father was deported to Poland)
• Nazi respond by launching an attack against all Jews
• Businesses & homes are smashed & burned by SS, thousands of Jews are arrested by Gestapo. Nazis want Jews out of Germany