The Rise of the Nazi Party and Hitler - Lecture 2 Video Lecture - Class 9

on August second 1934 after president
and members death who I became both
Chancellor and president declaring
himself Reich Chancellor 1935 Hiller
passed the Nuremberg Laws the nuremberg
laws were really the threshold into the
outright hatred of jews as a direct
result of these laws Jews lost civil
rights as citizens they were considered
a separate from Germans legally socially
and politically they were even separated
as a race Jews were prohibited for
marrying are having sex with Germans
even people who didn't consider
themselves Jewish appeared to be defined
as non-aryan no it was not just the Jews
that are persecuted homosexuals gypsies
people with mental disabilities physical
disabilities different political parties
needing people with darker-colored skin
they were all prosecuted in 1936 the
olympics were held in Berlin bo Trillo
the author of Hitler stepping-stone
describes the situation the 19 36
Olympics was a perfect time for Hitler
to promote Nazis not only to Germany but
the rest of the world questions arose
with the Hitler would follow the Olympic
Charter allowing Jews to participate in
the games not judging them by race or
class
hiller promised they would build they
would allow Jewish participants although
two contestants were completely akiti
one of the best high jumpers Gretel
German was not alive
in March 1938 Hitler took over Austria
no countries protested this even though
it violated the treaty of versailles in
September Hitler and moved on to
Czechoslovakia not an oil pipeline
normal this is probably one of the most
important events Hilla claimed he did
not want to advance into Czechoslovakia
unless he was sure Great Britain and
France wouldn't attack and in october
hitler decided to take the risk and to
go into Czechoslovakia but what did
France Great Britain and Italy do they
did nothing Hitler even later stated
that he would have backed down from his
attack if they had stepped in to stop
him yet they appease the Grateful in
Germany anti-semitism in Germany was now
widely accepted and I'm november nine
1938 there was a turning point there are
two major events that led to crystal
knocked the first was the shooting of
the German embassy stuff Hitler an
attempt to dispose of some Jews sent
about 15,000 to the Polish border to get
dumped two of these Jews with the
parents of a boy named Hershel grins a
pen when her still found this out he got
incredibly angry and shot staff member
Ernest vom rath the second event was a
speech made by Hitler minister of terror
Joseph Goebbels Global's thought fired
up many citizens encouraging them to
destroy jose homes synagogues and people
that was all the citizens needed to
begin Kristallnacht Kristallnacht the
night of the broken was this truly
allowed hatred of Jews to go to a whole
new level a thousand synagogues were set
on fire over 700,000 G storms
100 Jews were killed and three thirty
thousand Jews were sent to concentration
camps to the torture
in 1939 Hitler invaded Poland which was
the official start of World War two
Britain and France responded declaring
war on Derby using blight Craig or
lightning war going collapse when under
German will Hitler established new order
which was a plan to get rid of the
undesirables or Jews and slobs what
started as a group of unemployed
soldiers escalated into one of the
biggest political parties known in
history what Hitler did the facts are
uncovered but how Hitler was able to win
so many ordinary people to join in a
deed so wrong who always remain a
mystery