How did the Nazis' establish a dictatorship: To answer this question, students should discuss how the Nazis

were able to excersize their power and control. What did they do economically, educationally, legally, politically, and socially to make certain that they would remain the ruling party. Hitler took great strides to control the young people of Germany. He recognized the importance of the children in Germany and that they were the only ways thet his legacy would continue to be carried forth. In the schools, the German youth were told to solve math equations that had to do with bombs and aircrafts and the teachers all had to be apart of the German Teachers League. To keep the teachers accountable for spread Nazi's knowledge they had to attend regular training during the school hoildays. Camps during the summers were introduced so that children as young at 4 or 5 could begin training to prepare for the training at the school. These schools focused on physical preparedness of the children and in some cases older boys would die from the harsh condistion paired with the lack of sleep. Resistance groups did appear but were squashed immideiatly. The glory and privelegde to serve in Hitler's Army after the long training was enough of a motivator to keep these children in school. By educating the younger generation and brainwashing the youth, Hitler could ensure his political survival and the survival of the pure German race. How did Nazi control affect the lives of Jews and other persecuted groups? To anser this question, I would like students to chare specific examples of how life changed for the Jews and many other persecuted groups once the Nazi's took control. These examples should show evidence of having read the book, The Diary of Anne Frank and completed the veiwing activities listed on the Home page assiciated with the unit of study. The first and most obvious change would have to be the soilders and government officials in the streets of German occupied countries. Making surprise house checks and raids and forcing people out of their houses in the middle of the night. All Jews were also required to wear a gold star visibly on ther clothes to show that they were different and could be easily distinguised from the normal citizens. A second large change would be fro the Jewish children. As Jews began to dissapear to camps and be randomly taken from there owns and not allowed to bring their possesions with them, Jewsh schools slowely began to lose emembers. Even teachers were suffering and sometimes whole classes would have to cease because the teacher could not longer be found. Jewish families would have to go into hiding to keep from getting sucked into the dangers of concentration camps. Hide-outs, as was seen in the Diary of Anne Frank, were small uncomfrotable and the clausaphobia that would have been felt would be immense. Going weeks on end without opening a window and smelling the outside air must have been excruciating. The only was for most Jews to survive would have had to have been through other non-Jews who did not beeive in the words of Hitler and his regime. They would be putting their own lives and their families' lives in danger. They would have to make due with the money they had and help buy food so that the Jews in hiding would sustain themselves.

Why didn't more Jews leave sooner? To anser this question, student should read Reading #3 posted in the content area which offer a variety of reasons why the Jews did not leave soon and do some reasearch on there own.

Many of the Jews either had to keep working to support their family, or felt a sense of duty to stay and perservere through the genocde. Concerning the Jewish leaders, they felt as though they were leaders of a flock and were responsible for the outcome of their people. Many of the Jews made this individual decision too late and some of them paied for the price by going into hiding like Anne Frank.

Who were the perpetrators of the Nazi Crimes? To answert his question students should read the bookk, Diary of Anne Frank and visit the following website: Perpetrators of Nazi Crimes. Most of perpetrators were soilders in close alligance to Hitler. Perpetrators could be any one who killed or hurt Jews physically in concentration camps or anywhere else in the German occupied countries. Doctors who preformed medical expereiments on Jews were trialed and sent to prison for life. Soilder and commanders who took part in the mass massacres of Jews in gas chambers were also trialed and imprisoned for life. A lof of these people had gone into hididng after the war had ended. Many of them left the country in hopes of never having to pay for their crimes. Some traveled to South America while others tried to blend in and live a normal life in Europe. Eventually, the names of those who had gone into hiding were revealed and mass searches began. Many were found and sent straight to jail. Some were even found hididng in the United States. Even a few were given asylum in South America but had already died of natural causes. Hitler's name is widely known throughout the world as a main perpetrator of World War I and, although he was a very goo orator and wrote the book Mein Kampf that sparked the Anti-Semitism reign in Germany, Hitler could not have been as successful without many other who were involved in the Nazi Party. From engineers and police officers to military officials and journalists, those that were involved in the Nazi party varied widely in occupaiton and, therefore, could use this as an advantage to spreading Hiters word. Hitler was a good orator but this does not justify the others in the Nazi party to follow his teachings and do horrible things to the Jews. No matter where they lived or what there occupation was everyone that followed and believed Hitler was at fault, not only him. Perpetrators were Nazi party leaders, bankers, professors, military officials, doctors,

journalists, engineers, judges, authors, lawyers, salesmen, police, and civil servants. Perpetrators committed crimes against Jews and other undesirables for many reasons. They wanted power. They believed in an ideology of racial cleansing. They profited financially, displaced their anger from their own failures, or were perhaps "following orders." Hitler, a highly skilled orator, spoke at a number of mass rallies. These mass meetings created a sense of community, kept emotional levels high, and were a psychologically fertile environment in which to deliver propaganda. Rallies often took place in the evening when Hitler thought that people were most suggestible and least resistant. Carefully timed stage effects including: marching music, spotlights, torchlight processions, parades, flags fluttering, shouts of "Heil!," and impassioned oratory created the feeling of national unity, strength, and purpose.

 The SS began in 1925 as a small personal guard unit to protect Hitler and other party

leaders. It developed into the elite corps, the Black Shirts, under the direction of Heinrich Himmler. There were about 100,000 members in 1933. A power struggle occurred in 1934, called the "Night of the Long Knives," between the SA and the SS. The SS won. Himmler was made chief of the German police as well as the head of the SS, able to act within the law as head of the police and outside the law as head of the SS. Germany was truly a police state in which almost any act of terror could now be interpreted as legal. The German people were in the hands of the police, the police were in the hands of the Nazi Party, and the Party was in the hands of a ring of evil men.... --Prosecutor Jackson's Address to the International Military Tribunal
SSphysician at Auschwitz, notorious for pseudo-medical experiments, especially on

twins and Gypsies. He "selected" new arrivals by simply pointing to the right or the left, thus separating those considered able to work from those who were not. Those too weak or too old to work were sent straight to the gas chambers, after all their possessions, including their clothes, were taken for resale in Germany.