CH 9
LESSON 2:
NAZI
GERMANY
ESSENTIAL QUESTION OF THE UNIT
Essential Question for the Unit:
To what extent must we understand big ideas in order to
truly understand history?
Big ideas we’ve discussed so far:
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Communism
Next step: Using historical evidence to demonstrate
understanding of these ideas
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS & LEARNING
OBJECTIVES FOR TODAY’S LESSON
Essential Questions for the Lesson
How did Hitler and the Nazi party establish a
totalitarian fascist regime in Germany?
Why did Hitler and the Nazi party appeal to the
majority of Germans?
Lesson Objectives
• Explain the methods the Nazis used to create a
totalitarian state in Germany
• Use evidence from your study of Nazi Germany to
explain why Germany was Fascist
• Explain why Hitler was successful in gaining
support and popularity from the German people.
WARM-UP (5 MIN)
“IF YOU TELL A LIE BIG ENOUGH AND KEEP
REPEATING IT, PEOPLE WILL EVENTUALLY
COME TO BELIEVE IT.”
HAVE YOU HEARD THE ABOVE QUOTE
BEFORE? IF SO, WHERE? WHAT DOES
THIS QUOTE MEAN? DO YOU AGREE OR
DISAGREE WITH IT?
FULL QUOTE
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can
be maintained only for such time as the State can
shield the people from the political, economic
and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus
becomes vitally important for the State to use all of
its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the
mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the
truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
- Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda in Nazi
Germany
ACTIVITY
Get your computer and boot it up immediately
Go to my website at www.mrkatzman.weebly.com
Roll your cursor over “Advanced World History” and click on “in
class work”
Click on link under Nazi Germany
Once in Google Docs, go to “file” and click on “make a copy…”
This will be the new document you will use to complete your
work on
Title the document “Nazi Germany Graphic Organizer”
When you are finished working click “share privately” and enter
my email address in the invite space and press send.
Share with mrkatzman84@gmail.com
WHY DID HITLER ACHIEVE POPULARITY?
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Hitler appealed to the
emotions of Germans
at the time
Hitler and the Nazis
created “a cult of
personality” or a
heroic or godlike
public image
HITLER APPEALED TO THE EMOTIONS OF
GERMANS
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The treaty of Versailles
left Germans broke and
resentful and Hitler played
into these emotions
especially nationalism
and militarism.
Germans had long valued
a strong militaristic
Germany since unification
By producing an extensive
war machine and other
manufacturing projects
Hitler substantially
decreased unemployment
HITLER ESTABLISHED A CULT OF PERSONALITY
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As we looked at
yesterday, through
Propaganda, the Nazi’s
built a cult of personality
around Hitler which
portrayed the following:
He always knew what
was best for Germany
 He was both strong and
loving (father analogy)
 He produced results
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