The GermansGroup Gucci

The other side of the storyThe specifics on:

German Obedience towards Hitler Officers at concentration camps German citizens German youth Biological experiments Nuremburg Trials Modern Germans

What caused Germans to follow Hitler? Propaganda

- The “Master Race”

What caused Germans to follow Hitler? Post WWI

- Depression- “Stab-in-the-Back” Theory

Depression + “Stab-in-the-Back” Theory = FEAR = Adolf Hitler

Nazi’s lives at concentration camps Germany created

concentration camps in order to: Hold groups of people

who were considered enemies of Germany

Train SS soldiers, known as “SS Death-Head Units”

Conduct scientific experiments

SS officers were in charge of the concentration camps and each camp was commanded by a commandant

A range of titles existed in the camps for the SS soldiers working there. Each position had different duties to carry out.

Leading officers of the camp usually lived in luxurious homes near the command center.

Lower ranking soldiers usually lived in barracks near the command center

What did the German citizens think/do?The Nazis did a gradual upscale in extremes to continue German supportDid not start gassing until 1943Started by just taking over Jewish shopsNazis allowed Germany to not have to think for themselves or to question authority

Treaty of Versailles created huge debts so Hitler created a scape goat.

Jews were undermining the country and against the best interest of the nation.

Many Germans did not even know about the concentration camps or gassing because they put them in Poland.

Germans say they were liberated.

Germans are portrayed in movies as cold, brutal murderers.

Most Germans & the Wehrmacht did not want war. Hitler always advocated for no war.

Only declared war on USA so to Germany it looked like the world was ganging up on them.

Blame to Jews and American capitalists for war.

Hitler was savior of Germany

The German youth Hitler was passionate

about the power that young people held in continuing the Thousand Year Reich. His goal was to have the German youth trained and ready to be soldiers by age 18.

Getting the youth involved Hitler changed the way the youth was taught in

schools and forced them to get involved in clubs by age 10

By 1939 90% of Germans youth was involved in the Hitler Youth group.

Schools: The school system got rid of all Jewish teachers and about 97% of teachers were involved in the Nazi Party themselves.

German teachers provided textbooks that taught the students love for Hitler, militarism, and obedience to ones state.

The Nazi’s biological experimentsThe Nazi’s used prisoners in the concentration camps to experiment on in order to benefit their soldiers and citizens. Effects of mustard gas. Bone transplants. Twin studies. High altitude affects. Sterilization.

Nuremburg TrialsThe Nuremburg trials were held to convict people of the Nazi party that had committed war crimes. The first trials convicted and sentenced 21 of the

most important people in the Nazi party. Not included in these people were Adolf Hitler and

many others because they committed suicide. The majority of the people tried in Nuremburg

were sentenced to death. Very few were acquitted and those who were not

killed were for the most part sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison.

How did the Holocaust effect todays Germans? The Holocaust and the war in general was not

something that was usually talked about during the years after the war

Until the 1970s the Holocaust was not taught in schools within Germany

Discussions on the Holocaust are becoming more commonplace within Germany

The Holocaust is remembered through events like the Holocaust Remembrance Day and memorials

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