1. Life in Nazi Germany
What was life like in Nazi Germany?

2. Hitler Consolidates Power
• President Hindenberg dies in 1934 – Hitler names himself President
• Hitler becomes Fuhrer (Supreme Leader) – Rudolf Hess: Dep. Fuhrer
• Hitler bans all other political parties
•A branch of the SS was a secret police
force known as the Gestapo
•Gestapo kept everyday citizens in order
by terrorizing them into obedience
• Heinrich Himmler will run an elite black-uniformed unit called the SS,
which would eliminate Hitler’s political enemies
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3. •1933: Hitler appoints Joseph Goebbels
as Minister of Propaganda
Ministry of Propaganda
•Children joined the Hitler Youth or League
of German Girls
•Propaganda used to promote Reich and
blame Jews/others for pre-war problems
•Goebbels orders the burning of books
written by Jews or anti-Nazi authors

4. Nazi Propaganda #1
1. Describe cover of the book and
the adult in the book.
2. What is the author of this book
trying to teach German children?
A German children’s book titled:
The Poisonous Mushroom

5. Nazi Propaganda #2
Translation: The Jewish
worm makes his move
1. Describe the worm, what is
he doing?
2. What is the poster trying to
say?
Dollar sign
Hammer &
Sickle

6. Nuremberg Laws
• 1935: two sets of laws passed in Germany defining race & citizenship
1) Protection of German Blood & Honor – 1935
• Racial categories: German, Jew, & Mischling (grade 1 & 2)

7. 2) Reich Citizenship Law - 1935
• Must be German to be citizen
•Law forbids the marriage of
Jews to non-Jews
• Only citizens have full rights
Film Clip Question:
How did Stephan Lux bring the
issue of Jewish persecution to
the attention of the world?

8. Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass”
• 1938: a 17-year old Jewish man shoots a German diplomat, (upset his
father was deported to Poland)
• Nazi respond by launching an attack against all Jews
• Businesses & homes are smashed & burned by SS, thousands of
Jews are arrested by Gestapo. Nazis want Jews out of Germany