2. Glossary Words
• Adolf Hitler: (1889-1945) Austrian born leader of
the Nazi party in Germany. He promoted socialist,
racist and fascist ideals.
• Nazi: A member of the National Socialist German
Workers Party, or NSDAP.
• The name Nazi comes from the German
pronunciation of the word “national”, which
sounds like “nazional”.
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3. Learning activities
Lesson Aim: Identify Hitler's main ideas.
1. Hitler’s main ideas
Cut out the picture diagram of the main ideas of the Nazi’s and
paste into your books (whole page, centre, landscape)
Read the quotes and link them to relevant image / description
on the diagram.
**make sure your work is neat, use colour and give it a title.
2. Using page 32, read Race science
based on this information create a star diagram about what
race science is.
3. Write a summary about Hitler’s ideas and Race Science.
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4. Glossary Words
• Propaganda: Materials and methods which get
people to believe what you want them to.
The word “propaganda” comes from the Latin
“propagare,” which means “to plant a seed.”
• Nationalism: The belief that what matters most is
what country a person comes from. Often also
suggests that one country is better than another.
ACTIVITY: Think of a current day example of propaganda
and nationalism.
Lesson Aim: Identify how Hitler used propaganda to put
his ideas into action. 4
6. Advertising vs propaganda
• Advertisements
Encourage you to
BUY or DO
something
• Propaganda
Encourages you to
THINK or BELIEVE
something
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Propaganda is neither good nor bad.
7. Nazi Propaganda
What is propaganda?
Propaganda is the use of
the media to promote one
point of view.
Propaganda attempts to
‘brainwash’ the public, and
to convince them of a
certain viewpoint.
P.27/28 - Take notes
about methods used by
Hitler and the Nazi party
to promote their cause.
8. Posters
• Can be used for many
purposes
• Posters are cheap and
easy to distribute
• Placed in prominent
positions they act as a
constant reminder of
ideology
9. Examples of Nazi Posters
Enough! - Elect Hitler
Citizens, this is your
money too.
This poster tells readers of
how much a mentally
handicapped person cost
to keep each year.
Calendar for the office for
race policy of the NSDAP
10. Glossary Word
• Symbolism: The use of symbols to represent
ideas or qualities.
• Activity: Identify & explain a form of
symbolism that we use at WBHS.
Lesson Aim: Understand how Hitler used
propaganda and symbolism to spread his
ideas. 10
11. Cut the propaganda posters and out and
stick them in your book with room to
write notes around each of them.
CONSIDER:
What you can see?
What is the message behind the
poster?
12. Youth Serves the Führer
ALL 10-YEAR-OLDS INTO THE HITLER YOUTH
What I can see
Hitler in the
background
Young Hitler
Youth boy.
Aryan in
appearance,
serious,
looking ahead
Military/
Smart
Uniform
Caption in
CAPITALS
13. What I can see
The Eagle
(The State)
protecting the
family
The father
above the
family
The mother
caring for the
baby – scarf on
her head
representing
domestic work
Happy, healthy
children
14. What I can see
Physical
features
Map of
Germany
Handful of
money
A knotted
whip
Communist
Symbol
Title in Bold
15. Radio
• Hitler’s Speeches
Adolf Hitler made a variety of speeches.
Hitler is considered by some to have
been one of the greatest public
speakers of all time.
His speeches were passionate,
orchestrated and used to reinforce his
ideas.
TAKE
NOTES
TAKE
NOTES
16. 1939, Hitler addresses the Hitler Youth in Nuremburg:
"What is our Germany of today! How very beautiful and heroic! When I cast my
gaze upon you, I know my life's struggle is not being fought in vain! You shall
always remain faithful, as Germans always have. There will always be a new
generation of youth, in this city, a city which saw the passage of centuries will see
new generations. They will be even more beautiful, they will be even more
powerful, and they shall inspire in the hearts of the living even greater hope for
the future. I do not bewail - I sound a warning! I am not fear stricken, but I want
you to be prepared! I do not tremble at the hour of decision, but I want you to
see, and I want to be strong. I want my feet planted strongly in our earth, ready
to withstand any onslaught! And you will stand by my side should that hour ever
come. You will stand before me, behind me and beside me and at my hands, and
together, we shall carry our banners to victory!”
18. Newspapers
• Censoring newspapers ensures that the
public only reads the news you want
them to read
• Nazi party members wrote many articles
for the press, ensuring that the
message was always positive
• Publications that did not conform with
Nazi requirements were banned
TAKE
NOTES
TAKE
NOTES
19. A newspaper article comparing two
children – one Aryan and one Jew.
December 1938.
An intentionally
distorted account of
the patients in a
special needs hospital.
Intended to increase
public acceptance for
the Sterilization Law
Headline: "Storm over
Juda - The world court
is coming"
20. Glossary Word
• Holocaust: (1) Great destruction resulting in the
extensive loss of life, especially by fire. (2) The mass
murder of Jewish people in Europe between 1940
and 1945.
Activity: What is another word for what occurred
during the Holocaust in Europe?
Genocide - The systematic and widespread
extermination, or attempted extermination, of an
entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.
Lesson Aim: Identify some of the outcomes of Hitler’s
ideas. 20
21. Anti -Semitism
This is the term given to
political, social and
economic agitation against
Jews. In simple terms it
means ‘Hatred of Jews’.
Aryan Race
This was the name of what Hitler
believed was the perfect race.
These were people with full
German blood, blonde hair and
blue eyes.
22. For hundreds of years Christian Europe had regarded the Jews as the Christ -
killers. At one time or another Jews had been driven out of almost every
European country. The way they were treated in England in the thirteenth
century is a typical example.
In 1275 they were made to wear a yellow badge.
In 1287 269 Jews were hanged in the Tower of London.
This deep prejudice against Jews was still strong in the twentieth century,
especially in Germany, Poland and Eastern Europe, where the Jewish population
was very large.
After the First World War hundreds of Jews were blamed for the defeat in the
War. Prejudice against the Jews grew during the economic depression which
followed. Many Germans were poor and unemployed and wanted someone to
blame. They turned on the Jews, many of whom were rich and successful in
business.
23. Between 1939 and 1945 six
million Jews were
murdered, along with hundreds
of thousands of others, such as
Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses,
disabled and the mentally ill.
25. A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH
CAMPS USED BY THE NAZIS.
26. 16 of the 44 children
taken from a French
children’s home.
They were sent to a
concentration camp and
later to Auschwitz.
ONLY 1 SURVIVED
A group of
children at a
concentration
camp in
Poland.
27. Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B
poison gas pellets found at
Majdanek death camp.
Before poison gas was used ,
Jews were gassed in mobile gas
vans. Carbon monoxide gas
from the engine’s exhaust was
fed into the sealed rear
compartment. Victims were
dead by the time they reached
the burial site.
29. Jewish women, some holding infants, are forced
to wait in a line before their execution by
Germans and Ukrainian collaborators.
30. A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who
remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution.
31. Portrait of two-
year-old Mania
Halef, a Jewish
child who was
among the
33,771 persons
shot by the SS
during the mass
executions at
Babi Yar,
September, 1941.
32. Nazis sift through a huge pile of
clothes left by victims of the
massacre.
Two year old Mani Halef’s clothes are somewhere
amongst these.
33. After liberation, an
Allied soldier
displays a stash of
gold wedding rings
taken from victims at
Buchenwald.
Bales of hair shaven
from women at
Auschwitz, used to
make felt-yarn.
34. Soviet POWs at forced labor in 1943 exhuming bodies in the ravine at
Babi Yar, where the Nazis had murdered over 33,000 Jews in September
of 1941.
In 1943, when the number of murdered Jews exceeded 1
million. Nazis ordered the bodies of those buried to be dug
up and burned to destroy all traces.
35. “Until September 14, 1939 my life
was typical of a young Jewish boy
in that part of the world in that
period of time.
I lived in a Jewish community
surrounded by gentiles. Aside
from my immediate family, I had
many relatives and knew all the
town people, both Jews and
gentiles. Almost two weeks after
the outbreak of the war and
shortly after my Bar Mitzvah, my
world exploded.
In the course of the next five and
a half years I lost my entire family
and almost everyone I ever knew.
Death, violence and brutality
became a daily occurrence in my
life while I was still a young
teenager.”
Leonard Lerer, 1991
WHY?
36. Nazi ideas in action
Read pages 41 and 42 from the heading:
Nazi Ideas in Action to Germans at War
1939 - 1945.
1. Copy image 6.7 – the Fasces, and its description.
2. Take notes for each section
3. Use your notes to write a brief summary for each
section.
Early finishers: Look at the photo on page 42. Describe what
you see; how might the people have felt (guards as well as
Jews); what relationships / potential relationships can you
identify in the photo? 36
37. Homework
• Write SEXY paragraphs about Hitler and
propaganda write SEXY paragraphs that
explain the following:
–What were Hitler’s main ideas
–How did he communicate these ideas to the
people of Germany?
–How effective do you think Hitler was at
communicating his ideas, and why?
–What were some of the outcomes of these
ideas?
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39. Extreme Social Control
Stick the family photo into your book
Examine it carefully and consider the
following:
• When and where (date and country )do you think
this photo was taken?
Why? What evidence can you see?
• Who do you think these people are?
Why? Give them names.
• What do you think happened to these people at
the end of WW2?
40.
41. The Goebbels family, Germany, 1942
All the children, excluding Harald, were murdered by their parents in
Berlin on May 1, 1945.
This same day, both parents committed suicide. 41
Hildegard
HeiderunHedwig
Helmut
Harald
Helga
Magda
Goebbels
Joseph
Goebbels
Holdine
Copy
into
your
books
Copy
into
your
books
42. • History Channel documentary – Hitler and
Mein Kampf:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8sU6l
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