Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust Guided Notes
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Hitler and His Views
 ________________ was born in Austria on April 20, 1889
 At the core of Hitler’s ideas was racism, especially ________________
 An extreme nationalist who understood how political parties could use propaganda & terror
effectively
 Served for four years during WWI in Germany
 1919 joined the German Workers Party
 By 1921 he had taken control of the party which had been renamed the ________________
or Nazi for short
 Party militia known as SA, Storm Troops, or Brown shirts
 After an uprising called the Beer Hall Putsch, he was sentenced to prison
 While in prison, Hitler wrote ________________ or My Struggle, an account of his
movement and basic ideas
 Extreme German nationalism, strong anti-Semitism and anticommunism are linked together by
a ________________theory of struggle
Rise of Nazism
 While in prison, Hitler realized the Nazis would have to gain power through legal means
 By 1932, Nazi Party had 800,000 members and was the largest party in the German Parliament
 Why was the Nazi Party so popular?
________________- 6 million unemployed in 1932
Hitler promised to create a new Germany by appealing to national pride and honor
People viewed him as their helper, ________________, deliverer
Victory of Nazism
 After 1930, German government ruled by decree with support of President Hindenburg
 1933, President Hindenburg made Hitler ________________
 March 23, 1933, ________________was passed allowing the government to ignore the
constitution for four years
 In effect making Hitler a dictator
 When Hindenburg died in 1934, office of the President was abolished
 Hitler became sole ruler- public officials and soldiers were required to take a personal oath of
loyalty to Hitler as their ________________
The Nazi State, 1933-1939
 Hitler wanted to develop a totalitarian state
 Larger goal—development of an ________________ racial state
 Aryan was a state linguists used to identify people speaking Indo-European languages
 Nazi’s misused terms and identified the Aryans with the Ancient Greeks and Romans and 20th
Century Germans and Scandinavians
 Goal to create a ________________, the empire of Nazi Germany
The New Order in Europe
 In 1942, the Nazi regime stretched across continental Europe from the English channel in the
west to the outskirts of Moscow in the east
 Nazi-occupied Europe was largely organized in two ways:
Some areas were directly annexed by Germany and made into German provinces
Most was run by German military or civilian officials with help from local collaborators
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Resettlement in the East
 Nazi administration in the conquered lands to the east was especially ruthless.
 They were populated, Nazis thought, by racially inferior Slavic peoples.
 Hitler’s plans for an Aryan racial empire were so important that he and the Nazis began to put
their racial program into effect soon after the conquest of Poland.
 ________________, the leader of the SS, was put in charge of German resettlement plans in
the east. Himmler’s plan was to move the Slavic peoples out and replace them with Germans.
 Slavic peoples included ________________.
 ________________Poles were uprooted and moved to southern Poland.
 By 1942, 2 million ethnic Germans had been brought in to settle Poland.
 Himmler told a gathering of SS officers that 30 million Slavs might die in order to achieve
German plans in the east.
VII. Slave Labor in Germany
 In 1942, a special office was set up to recruit labor for German farms & industries.
 By 1942, 7 million European workers were laboring in Germany.
 By summer of 1944, seven million European workers were forced to labor for the Nazis in their
own countries.
VIII. The Holocaust
 No aspect of the Nazi New Order was more terrifying than the deliberate attempt to exterminate
the Jews.
 Racial struggle was a key element in Hitler’s world of ideas.
 On one side were the Aryans; on the other were the Jews, ________________ in Hitler’s
view, who were trying to destroy the Aryans.
 Himmler and the SS closely shared Hitler’s racial ideas.
 The SS was given responsibility for what the Nazi’s called their ________________to the
Jewish problem. The Final Solution was ________________—physical extermination—of the
Jewish people.
 Reinhad Heydrich, head of the SS’s Security Service, was given the task of administering the
Final Solution.
 After the defeat of Poland, he ordered forces to found up all Polish Jews and put them in
________________ set up in a number of Polish cities.
 Conditions in the ghettos were horrible—unsanitary housing & minimal amounts of food.
 June 1941, the forces were given the new job of acting as mobile killing units.
 ________________followed the regular army’s advance in the Soviet Union.
 Their job was to round up Jews, execute them, and bury them in mass graves.
 The graves were often giant pits dug by the victims themselves before they were shot.
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The Death Camps
 Probably ________________Jews were killed by the death squads
 As appalling as that sounds, it was too slow by Nazi standards.
 They decided to build death camps to kill the European Jewish population more efficiently.
 Beginning in 1942, Jews from countries occupied by German were rounded up, packed like
cattle into freight trains, and shipped to Poland.
 Six extermination centers were built for this purpose; the largest was ________________.
 About ________________of the arrivals to Auschwitz were sent to a labor camp, where they
were starved or worked to death.
 The remainder were sent to the ________________.
 Some inmates were subjected to cruel and painful “medical” experiments.
 By the spring of 1942, the death camps were in full operation.
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First priority was given to the elimination of the ghettos in Poland.
By the summer of 1942, Jews were being stripped from France, Belgium, & Holland.
Even as the Allies were winning the war in 1944, Jews were being shipped from Greece &
Hungary.
 Despite desperate military needs, even late in the war when Germany faced utter defeat, the
Final Solution had priority in using railroad cars.
The Death Toll
 Germans killed between ________________, over three million in death camps.
 Virtually ________________ of the Jewish population of Poland, the Baltic countries, and
Germany were killed.
 The Nazi’s were also responsible for the deliberate death by shooting, starvation, or overwork of
at least 9 to 10 million other people.
 The Nazi’s considered the ________________ (gypsies) to be an alien race. They were
rounded up for mass killing. About 40% of Europe’s one million Romas were killed in the death
camps.
 The leading citizens of the Slavic peoples—clergy, intellectuals, civil leaders, judges, and lawyers
were killed.
 Probably an additional ________________Poles, Ukrainians, and Belorussians lost their
lives as slave laborers for Nazi Germany.
 Finally, probably at least 3-4 million Soviet POW’s were killed in captivity.
 This mass slaughter of European civilians is known as the ________________
 Jews in and out of the camps tried to resist the Nazis.
 Some were aided by friends and soldiers, hidden in villages or smuggled into safe areas. Foreign
diplomats would issue exit visas in an effort to help.
 The nation of Denmark saved almost its entire Jewish population.
 Some people did not believe the accounts of the death camps due to exaggeration as propaganda
during WWI.
 The Allies were aware, but chose to focus on the ending of the war. Not until after the war did
they learn the full extent of the horror and inhumanity of the Holocaust.
Children in the War
 Young people of all ages were victims of World War II.
 ________________were the first to be sent to the gas chambers because they were unable to
work.
 Young Jewish males soon learned to look as adult as possible in order to survive.
 Altogether, ________________Jewish children died in the Holocaust.
 Many children were evacuated from cities during the war to avoid the bombing.
 The Germans created about 9000 camps for children in the countryside; Japan evacuated 15000
children from Hiroshima before its destruction.
 The British moved about 6 million children and their mothers in 1939.
 Children evacuated to the countryside did not always see their parents again.
 In 1945, there were perhaps 13 million ________________in Europe.
 All secondary schools in German occupied Eastern Europe were closed and their supplies
destroyed.
 In the last years of the war, children could even be found on the war front.
 In the Soviet Union, children as young as 13 or 14 spied on German positions and worked with
the resistance movement.
 Some were even given decorations for killing the enemy.