A Brief History of NAZI'sE
An excerpt taken from the History Channel: NAZI Party, link provided above. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I (1914-1918) and required Germany to make numerous concessions and reparations. Hitler joined the party the year it was founded and became its leader in 1921. In 1933, he became chancellor of Germany and his Nazi government soon assumed dictatorial powers. After Germany’s defeat in World War II (1939-45), the Nazi Party was outlawed and many of its top officials were convicted of war crimes related to the murder of some 6 million European Jews during the Nazis’ reign |
Belifs |
Libensraum: The need for living space for the German people to expand their powerful, Empire status.
A Strong Germany: The treaty of Versailles should be abolished and all German speaking people to be united in one. Social Darwinism: The idea that that the Aryan Race--blond hair and blue eyes-- was a superior race where was Jews are sub-human. Steady Belief: The idea that the biological and cultural superiority of the Aryan race will dominate all other races and should not be mixed with other races, NAZI Characteristic: Trying to remodel the working class ideals to a more "modern", higher class ideal. Anti-Semitism: The idea that Jews worldwide were the downfall of the Aryan race and the economic status of Germany |