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Hitler - MASTER PACKET

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Assertion 1 Idea: The Rise of Hitler

ASS 1, Q1: What was the state of Germany prior to Adolf Hitler coming to power?

Germany was in a depression and had damage from World War I, and the people of Germany needed someone to help
them out of this situation.

Box 1 EV1:APPROVED Humiliated, early in 1919 they were forced to sign the treaty of Versailles, which officially brought
conflict to a close and imposed very harsh penalties on Germany. The country had to cede some of its best territories to the
victors, pay huge reparations, and overall lost much power and prestige. The traumatic effect the loss of the war had on the
German people cannot be overstressed.

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Source #: Resource Packet #2
Citation: Nardo (21)

Box 2 EV2: APPROVED In the early 1930s, the mood in Germany was grim. The worldwide economic depression had hit
the country especially hard, and millions of people were out of work. Still fresh in the minds of many was Germany's
humiliating defeat fifteen years earlier during World War I, and Germans lacked confidence in their weak government,
known as the Weimar Republic.These conditions provided the chance for the rise of a new leader.
McDonough ( 67)
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ASS 1, Q2: How did Adolf Hitler gain support of the people? After World War 1, Hitler gained support of the people by
making promises to do everything they wanted as well as lead them out of the depression.

Box 3 EV1 APPROVED

Hitler used his own skills of oratory to appeal to the patriotism of the German people by promising to break free of the
restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. His aim of ending the payment of reparations was especially popular. Hitlers plans to
re-arm Germany were also popular. By recruiting a large army and building a whole new navy and air force, he would be
able to reduce unemployment. With so many people out of work, this was an appealing prospect. Germanys economy was
in such a poor state that Hitlers promise of strong government and stability was widely supported and not least by
industrialists. By attacking Jews in the world of business, Hitler appealed to their non-Jewish rivals.

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Source #: Resource Packet #5
Citation: Mrs. J. Millan (Propaganda and Promises)

Box 4 EV2: APPROVED Hitler understood that a leader must reach the people personally. He also understood that the
radio was a powerful political tool because it brought his voice into the homes of ordinary people, making them feel close
and connected to him. Not every German family could afford a radio, but those who could gathered around, eager to hear
what the new chancellor would say. Hitler was an exciting speaker. His voice captivated his listeners. He seemed to know
just the right note, the right word or phrase to rouse the emotions of his audience.

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Source #: 4
Citation: Susan Campbell Bartoletti (P.19)

ASS 1, Q3: How did Adolf Hitler solidify power? After becoming powerful in Germany, he put those that didnt agree with him into

concentration camps or punished them, and expanded his military.

Box 5 EV1:APPROVED On February 27, 1933less than a month after Hitler had been named chancellorthe Reichstag
building burned down; blame fell on a young Dutch communist, but it may have been a Nazi plot. Hitler seized the
opportunity to convince members of the Reichstag to approve an emergency decree that that legalized Nazi thuggery.
Soon, he convinced the center-to-right parties of the Reichstag to grant the government the freedom to decree laws without
parliamentary approval for the next four years. By July 1933 all political parties except the NSDAP had been dissolved.
Following the death of President von Hindenburg in August 1934, Hitler combined the roles of chancellor and president and
assumed control of the countrys military forces. With complete control of the country, Hitler initiated a new German society
that became known as the Third Reich; he proclaimed it would last 1,000 years. Not content to rule Germany, he followed a
policy of Lebensraum (living room) to seize lands outside Germany to allow the German people to expand their living
space.
Source #: Resource Packet #5
Citation: Mrs. J. Millan (Propaganda and Promises)

Box 6 EV2:APPROVED As an early indication of the tactics Hitler would employ to ensure he remained in power, this ably
demonstrates how ruthless he had become ..., on 2 August 1934, president Von Hindenburg died. Within an hour of his
passing it was decreed that the office of president would now be merged with that of the chancellor and that Hitler would
not only be head of state, but also supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

Source #: 6
Citation: Shelly Klein (58)

Assertion 2 Idea: DICTATORS NAMEs Maintenance of Power

ASS 2, Q1: How did Adolf Hitler use his military to maintain control/expand his
reign? He used his military to form a better propaganda and racial Treatment in order to make himself
more powerful politically and made a higher impact than other dictatOrs of the war.

Box 7 EV1:APPROVED
His expansion was bloodless. He renounced the terms of the Treaty of Versailles that
had ended the Great War and reclaimed land that had been ceded to France. When
German tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia, it was to "liberate" the Sudetenland where
the population was largely German. The Czechs expected Britain and France to stand
by agreements to protect the country, but with memories of the slaughter that had
marked the First World War, those countries chose to negotiate a settlement that
preserved "peace in our time" at the expense of the Czechs. Austria was the next
country annexed.
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Source # Resource Packet #5
Citation: Brian King (Adolf Hitler: Rise of the Third Reich)
Box 8 EV2:APPROVED In Hitlers schema, the removal of the Jews from posts in the
state apparatus and from societys cultural and educational institutions represented,
along with the re-militarization of Germany, the first phase of his program, the internal
cleansing and healing of Germany.
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Source #: RESOURCE 8
Citation: Kejelle, (53)
ASS 2, Q2: How did Adolf Hitler maintain control over the people/manipulate the
people to maintain control? He used his military to form a better propaganda and racial Treatment
in order to make himself
more powerful politically and made a higher impact than other dictatOrs of the war.

Box 9 EV1: APPROVED

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The Nazis were able to keep control of Germany because the rest of the population of
Germany who didnt adore Hitler, feared him and the Nazis. One of the methods of
keeping complete control was through the use of terror which means that the police
state terrorized people into accepting the Nazi rule. Hitler gave the Gestapo complete
control which meant individuals lost the right to privacy and officials could read
people's mail, listen in on telephone conversations, and search private homes without

a warrant. The block leaders spied on the people living down their street or in houses
near them and reported anyone who was heard to be foul-mouthing Hitler. If anybody
was to be caught with criticism or opposition towards Hitler they would either end up
dead, arrested and imprisoned without trial, or in concentration camp, therefore most
of Germany was left unable to say or do anything against the Nazis even when they
didnt support them or may have strongly disagreed with what they were doing. There
was no escape from Hitler and the Nazi rule, Hitler set up the Nazi people's courts
where judges have to swear an oath of loyalty to the Nazis and all political parties
were banned only the Nazi party was allowed to exist. The people of Germany who
didnt support the Nazi way were trapped and forced into supporting the Nazis, and
had to go along with the unfair treatment and campaign of violence and terror against
Communists, Jews, Socialists and other opponents.
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Source #: resource # 9
Citation: ( How Did Hitler Keep Control of Nazi Germany)
Box 10 EV2:APPROVED At this point in his career, Hitler began to unleash his
propaganda upon all of Germany. He had previously used his persuasiveness to
further himself in the Nazi Party and to gain supporters, but it was not until he was
dictator that that his persuasive style was fully manifested. Adolf Hitlers persuasive
method was built upon the foundation of treating the German people as a group,
rather than as individuals. He explained this technique in the following
statement.Hitler and the Nazi Party treated the German people as if they were one
entity, because individuals are rational, think for themselves, and are concerned about
their own well-being; whereas groups are unintelligent and easily persuaded.
Sigmund Freud stated that groups tend to have the characteristics of weakness of
intellectual ability,lack of emotional restraint,...incapacity for moderation and delay,
[and] the inclination to exceed every limit in the expression of emotion. Freud went
on to say that groups show an unmistakable picture of a regression of mental
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Citation: (How was Hitler so persuasive)
Resource:# 10

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Assertion 3: Hitlers Fall From Power
ASS 3, Q1: How did military losses in WWII affect the stability of Adolf Hitler rule? His
people had lost hope in him and Germany began to lose power.
Box 11 EV1:APPROVED German forces were defeated at the Battle of Stalingrad, the first
major defeat Germany suffered in the war. In North Africa, Britain defeated Germany at the battle
of El Alamein, thwarting Hitler's plans of seizing the Suez Canal and the Middle East. These defeats
were a key turning point in the war. After these, Hitler's military decisions became increasingly
erratic, as Germany's military and economic position deteriorated. His health was deteriorating too:
his left hand had started shaking, and he found it difficult to controL

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Source #: Resource 2
Citation: Nardo ( 64)
Box 12 EV2:APPROVED
With the Allies approaching from the west and south and the Russians from the east,
Germany was caught in a deadly vise. Many german generals had long before this
recognized that their cause was hopeless, and the new enemy onslaught only reinforced this
conclusion. But Hitler refused to consider any notions of defeat or surrender; it would be
better if every man, woman, and child in Germany died, he told some of associates. Fed up
with the fuhrers fatalistic attitude, a group of officers decided to take matters into their own
hands. They were led by Colonel Claus S. von Stauffenberg. He came to the conclusion that
Hitlers lunatic disregard for human decency had so besmirched the the name of the German
fatherland that it stank in the nostrils of civilized men everywhere. He would assassinate this
madman and bring an end to the senseless war. On July 20, 1944 von Satuffenberg placed a
bomb in a briefcase and carried it into a command post in northern Germany where Hitler
was meeting with some of his top military officers.
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Source #: Resource Packet #2
Citation: Nardo, PG 86
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The battle for Stalingrad was fought during the winter of 1942 and 1943.
source: #12
Citation: (the Battle of Stalingrad)
ASS 3, Q2: How does Adolf Hitler die? Death by suicide, Hitler swallowed a capsule of
cyanide.
Box 13 EV1:By April 25, 1945 with Berlin completely surrounded and the Berghof being
bombarded,... Adolf had married Eva. Despite heavily shelling outside the bunker, the couple

exchanged vows and received the congratulations of those still present Those present in
the bunker reported hearing a single shot at approximately 3:30 p.m. a few moments later SS
leader Otto Gunsche entered Hitlers suite and found his body on the sofa, soaked in blood, a
bullet through his head. Beside him lay Evas body; she had swallowed a capsule of poison.
Source #: resource 13
Citation: (104) Ayer
Box 14 EV2:APPROVED All over Germany, surviving Nazi leaders were hunted down and
taken into custody. Among those captured were Hermann Gring, ex-Foreign Minister
Joachim Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Keitel, General Jodl, and Hans Frank, one-time
Governor-General of Poland. Heinrich Himmler, perhaps the most notorious Nazi after Hitler,
had killed himself by ingesting poison while in British custody.
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Source #: Resouce Packet #8
Citation: Phillip Gavin (Aftermath: Nuremburg and Beyond)