● Hitler and the Nazis rose to power mainly because of the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression.
● Hitler established a fascist dictatorship. ● There were many differences between fascism and democracy. ● The main difference between a fascist and communist dictatorship was about the ownership of industry and agriculture.
● Hitler used the Enabling Act to establish a police state. ● Propaganda was very important in Nazi Germany because Hitler wanted to control people’s minds as well as their actions.
● Goebbels was in charge of propaganda. He developed a cult of personality around Hitler.
● Nazis controlled young people through education and youth organisations. ● Nazis believed that women’s place was in the home as mothers and housekeepers. ● The Nazis followed racist ideas – they looked down on Jews and others as inferior races. They looked on themselves as the superior Aryan race.
● They persecuted Jews during the 1930s, mainly through the Nuremberg Laws. Then during World War II (1939–45), the Nazis organised the Holocaust.
● The Nazis also controlled the Christian churches. ● The Nazis used public works and rearmament to reduce German unemployment.
Key Words Anti-Semitism Brownshirts
Concentration camps
Dictatorship Enabling Act
Extermination camps
Fascism Führer Holocaust Lebensraum Master Race
Nuremberg Laws
Pogrom 296
hatred of the Jews name given to Hitler’s Stormtroopers or SA
camps set up by the Nazis in Germany or Communists in the Soviet Union (gulags) to imprison opponents
a country being ruled or governed by a dictator law passed by Hitler that gave him power to rule by decree camps organised by the Nazis in Poland during World War II for killing Jews
political belief of Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany that was anti-democratic, anti- communist
(Leader) title of Hitler after he combined the offices of President and Chancellor the systematic slaughter of European Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II
Nazi policy of living space, to use Eastern Europe and Russia to provide raw materials and workers for the Nazis
Nazi term for pure and superior white race who aimed to dominate or rule the world
Nazi laws against the Jews that deprived them of German citizenship, banned marriages with non-Jews and forced them to wear the Star of David
an organised massacre and persecution of an ethnic or religious group, usually applied to attacks on the Jews in Russia and Nazi Germany