ALEX and MORGAN

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 Hitler coming to power?
Box 1 EV1: APPROVED Humiliated, early in 1919 they were forced to sign the Treaty of
Versailles, which officially brought the conflict to a close and imposed very harsh penalties on
Germany. The country had to cede some of its best industrial territories to the victors, pay huge
reparations (moneys to compensate for the damages suffered by its opponents), and overall lost
much power and prestige.
Source #: 2
Citation: Don Nardo, PG #21
In the Treaty of Versailles, which followed German defeat in World War I, the victorious powers (the
United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states) impose severe terms on Germany.
Germany, under threat of invasion, is forced to sign the treaty. Among other provisions, Germany
accepts responsibility for the war and agrees to make huge payments (known as reparations), limit
its military to 100,000 troops, and transfer territory to its neighbors. The terms of the treaty lead to
widespread political discontent in Germany. Adolf Hitler gains support by promising to overturn them.
Source #: 7
Citation:United States Holocaust Museum
Box 2 EV2 : APPROVED For the overwhelming majority of the german people, defeat in 1918 came
as a great shock. The military authorities who ran the German Empire during the last years of the
war had failed to report to the public German reverses on the battlefield. No fighting had ever taken
place on German soil, and the Germans had got used to thinking of their armies as in firm
possession of the foreign territories they had overrun. . . Schooled in reverence for their military

forces, the Germans could not grasp the fact that their armies had lost the war.
Source #: 2
Citation: Don Nardo pg22
ASS 1, Q2: How did Hitler gain support of the people?
Box 3 EV1: APPROVED People supported Hitler because he promised them what they wanted and
needed to hear. The Weimar Republic appeared to have no idea how to solve the problems of the
Depression. The Nazis on the other hand promised to solve the problems. Hitler promised most
groups in Germany what they wanted. Hitler used the Jews and other sections of society as
scapegoats, blaming all the problems on them. To Germans at the time Hitler made sense, he
united everyone by providing explanations for Germany's problems. People in Germany were tired of
their poor quality of life. Hitler promised to make Germany proud again - it was exactly what people
wanted to hear. Hitler pledged something for every part of Germany society
Source:10
Citation:Why did people support hitler
Box 4 EV2: The military style of the Nazis involved using large political rallies to gain support. These were
vast, highly organised events with banners and marching bands. The rallies were broadcast on radio and had
audiences of many thousands. Joseph Goebbels, who was excellent at propaganda, began to build an image
of Hitler as a great leader. Goebbels used peoples fear of uncertainty and instability to portray Hitler as a man
with a great vision for prosperity and stability. 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.

Source: 14
Citation: Nazi Propaganda
ASS 1, Q3: How did Hitler solidify power?
Box 5 EV1 hitler becomes chancellor CHECK
Citation: Adolf Hitler : Dictator of Germany
Hitlers emergence as chancellor on January 30, 1933, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and,
ultimately, for the world. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics
and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state. He began immediately, ordering a rapid expansion of
the state police, the Gestapo, and putting Hermann Goering in charge of a new security force, composed
entirely of Nazis and dedicated to stamping out whatever opposition to his party might arise. From that moment
on, Nazi Germany was off and running, and there was little Hindenburg or von Papenor anyonecould do to
stop it.

source:16

citation:(Adolf Hitler is named chancellor of Germany)

Box 6 EV2: APPROVED:Once in power, Hitler established an absolute dictatorship. He

secured the presidents assent for new elections. The Reichstag fire, on the night of
February 27, 1933 (apparently the work of a Dutch Communist, Marinus van der Lubbe),
provided an excuse for a decree overriding all guarantees of freedom and for an intensified
campaign of violence. In these conditions, when the elections were held (March 5), the
Nazis polled 43.9 percent of the votes. On March 21 the Reichstag assembled in the
Potsdam Garrison Church to demonstrate the unity of National Socialism with the old
conservative Germany, represented by Hindenburg. Two days later the Enabling Bill, giving
full powers to Hitler, was passed in the Reichstag by the combined votes of Nazi,
Nationalist, and Centre party deputies (March 23, 1933). Less than three months later all
non-Nazi parties, organizations, and labor unions ceased to exist. The disappearance of the
Catholic Centre Party was followed by a German Concordat with the Vatican in July.
Source #: 14
Citation: Adolf Hitler : Dictator of Germany
Source #: 15
Citation: Adolf Hitler

Assertion 2 Idea: Hitler Maintenance of Power

ASS 2, Q1: How did Hitler maintain control over the people/manipulate the people to maintain control?
Box 7 EV1:APPROVED He instinctively knew how to spread damaging lies about his opponents that would
be believed by the general public. He also ruthlessly used the local storm troopers to beat up and intimidate
enemies, all in the name of keeping order. To attract young supporters and to build a power base from which
future storm troopers could be recruited, the Hitler Youth movement was founded in 1926.Boys and girls
were organized but treated differently. The boys section prepared members for military service, the girls to
be a good german mother. as a result of its growth into a party with truly national reach, the Nazis began to
enlist the support of group voters that it had never previously attracted.
Source #: 1
Citation: CHARLES FREEMAN, PG #19,20
In 1923, the organization had a little over one thousand members. In 1925, the membership grew to over
5,000. Five years later, national Hitler Youth membership stood at 25,000. By the end of 1932 (a few weeks
before the Nazis came to power) it was at 107,956. At the end of 1933, the Hitler Youth had 2,300,000
members. Kurt Gruber organized the corps under adult leaders, and the general membership comprised
boys aged fourteen to eighteen. Gruber initiated new guidelines stipulating that all Hitler Youth members
over age 18 had to be Nazi Party members; appointments to high ranking positions required Party approval
and Hitler Youths must obey all commands issued by any Nazi Party leader.
Source # :12
Citation: The Hitler Youth

Box 8 EV2 APPROVED :The Hitler Youth catered for 10 to 18 year olds. There were separate
organisations for boys and girls. The task of the boys section was to prepare the boys for military
service. For girls, the organisation prepared them for motherhood. Boys at 10, joined the Deutsches
Jungvolk (German Young People) until the age of 13 when they transferred to the Hitler Jugend
(Hitler Youth) until the age of 18. In 1936, the writer J R Tunus wrote about the activities of the Hitler
Jugend. He stated that part of their "military athletics" (Wehrsport) included marching, bayonet drill,

grenade throwing, trench digging, map reading, gas defence, use of dugouts, how to get under
barbed wire and pistol shooting. Girls, at the age of 10, joined the Jungmadelbund (League of
Young Girls) and at the age of 14 transferred to the Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German
Girls). Girls had to be able to run 60 metres in 14 seconds, throw a ball 12 metres, complete a 2
hour march, swim 100 metres and know how to make a bed.
Source #: 13
Citation:Hitler Youth Movement
ASS 2, Q2: How did Hitler use his military to maintain control/expand his reign?
Box 9 EV1:APPROVED On September 1, 1939, Hitler began World War IIwhich he hoped would lead to
his control of most of the Eurasian heartlandwith the lightning invasion of Poland, which he immediately
followed with the liquidation of Jews and the Polish intelligentsia, the enslavement of the local "subhuman"
population, and the beginnings of a German colonization. Following the declaration of war by France and
England, he temporarily turned his military machine west, where the lightning, mobile attacks of the German
forces quickly triumphed. In April 1940 Denmark surrendered, and Norway was taken by an amphibious
operation. In May-June the rapidly advancing tank forces defeated France and the Low Countries.The major
goal of Hitler's conquest lay in the East, however, and already in the middle of 1940 German war production
was preparing for an eastern campaign.
Source #:11
Citation: Adolf Hitler
Box 10 EV2:By overruling his senior officers and achieving a string of stunning victories in the years leading
up to World War II, Adolf Hitler came to be considered, and considered himself, a military genius. He
masterminded the march into the Rhineland in 1936, the annexation of Austria two years later, the
subsequent annexation and dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, and the invasion of Poland in 1939. Hitlers
seemingly unerring political, military, and diplomatic judgment fed a messianic conviction of his invincibility.
He approved the formation of killing squads that followed his army to murder Jews and anyone not of
German descent. Auschwitz and many other concentration camps were set up to systematically murder
those the army and killing squad had rounded up or to put them into slavery. There were many of these
concentration camps set up across Europe and several were even devoted to only exterminating or
murdering people. From the years of 1939-1945 the SS (part of the Nazi army) were responsible for deaths
of 11-14 million people which included about 2/3s of the European Jewish population or 6 million people. In
addition they killed between 200,000 and 1.5 million Romanis, often called gypsies. Most of which were
gassed while others starved or died of disease.
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source # :6
Citation :World History Group

Assertion 3: Hitler Fall From Power

ASS 3, Q1: When did things begin to go terribly wrong for Hitler?
Box 11 EV1: APPROVE In 1941, despite the alliance, Germany invaded Russia under Operation
Barbarossa. It was one of his greatest mistakes. With the German advance slowed by the Russians
'scorched earth' policy, the German army found themselves in the Russian winter without an
adequate supply line. In 1943, they started their long retreat. At the same time, the Western Allies
were pushing hard, and began to advance on Germany. In response, Hitler withdrew almost
entirely. It was reported he was increasingly erratic and out-of-touch.In 1944, there was an
unsuccessful assassination attempt and, in response, Hitler stepped up the atmosphere of
suspicion and terror.
Source #: 4
Citation: Adolf Hitler
Box 12 EV2:APPROVED Since the defeat of Germany in World War II, Hitler, the Nazi
Party and the results of Nazism have been regarded in much of the world as
synonymous with evil. Those unemployed turned to the one party and party leader untainted by
the chaos of Weimar Germany - Adolf Hitler. Hitler's "1000 Year Reich" lasted from 1933 to 1945
and, after the impact of World War Two had reduced Germany to rubble.
Source #: 13
Citation: History learning site
ASS 3, Q2: How did hitler die?
Box 13 EV1: APPROVED Once in power, Hitler established an absolute dictatorship. He

secured the presidents assent for new elections. The Reichstag fire, on the night of
February 27, 1933 (apparently the work of a Dutch Communist, Marinus van der Lubbe),
provided an excuse for a decree overriding all guarantees of freedom and for an intensified
campaign of violence. In these conditions, when the elections were held (March 5), the
Nazis polled 43.9 percent of the votes. On March 21 the Reichstag assembled in the
Potsdam Garrison Church to demonstrate the unity of National Socialism with the old
conservative Germany, represented by Hindenburg. Two days later the Enabling Bill, giving
full powers to Hitler, was passed in the Reichstag by the combined votes of Nazi,
Nationalist, and Centre party deputies (March 23, 1933). Less than three months later all
non-Nazi parties, organizations, and labor unions ceased to exist. The disappearance of
the Catholic Centre Party was followed by a German Concordat with the Vatican in July.
Source #: 8
Citation: The holocaust timeline
Box 14 EV2:
APPROVED
But with Russian shells falling all around, the guard was soon forced to take cover , and as a
result, no one ever knew what happened to Hitlers and Eva Braun's remains. Historians have said
that the available gasoline would have not been enough to destroy the bones, but the bones were
never found. On May 7, 1945 just one week after the fuhrers death, Germany many surrended to
the Allies.World War II in Europe was over. Adolf Hitler, along with his Thousand-year Reich, had

disappeared into the ashes.

Source: 9
Citation: Eleanor H. Ayer, pg 106