NAZISM: NAZISM was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany. It was a unique variety of fascism that involved biological racism and antisemitism.Nazism presented itself as politically syncretic, incorporating policies, tactics and philosophies from right- and left-wing ideologies; in practice, Nazism was a far right form of politics. The Nazis believed in the supremacy of an Aryan master race and claimed that Germans represent the most pure Aryan nation.
NATIONAL SOCIALISM
They argued that Germany’s survival as a modern great nation required it to create a New Order an empire in Europe that would give the German nation the necessary land mass, resources, and expansion of population needed to be able to economically and militarily compete with other power
THE FOUNDER OF NAZISM “HITLER”
[THE LEADER]
Adolf Hitler 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945
SIEG HEIL! On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler legally became Chancellor of Germany, appointed by President Paul von Hindenburg. Although he initially headed a coalition government, he quickly made Hindenburg a figurehead and eliminated his non-Nazi partners. The Nazi regime restored economic prosperity and ended mass unemployment using heavy military spending while suppressing labor unions and strikes. The return of prosperity gave the regime enormous popularity, and no serious opposition ever emerged to serve as a challenge to its rule.
Hitler believed that he need to defending German and their ethnic against communism and jewis. Aside of that he also believed that the non-German Germanic peoples of Europe, such as the Scandinavians, the Dutch, and the Flemish, were part of the “Aryan master race”. Hitler stated that he wanted to undo the “unnatural division” of the Nordic race into many different countries (“kleinstaatengerümpel”) and create union with the rest of historically Germanic Europe create a Greater Germanic Reich (Grossgermanisches Reich)
IDEOLOGY: EXTREME NATIONALISM ETHNIC DIVISION FIRM GOVERMENT
THE IDEOLOGY AND THOUGHT OF ADOLF HITLER THAT EVOLVE INTO NAZISM WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK
A WORK ON POLITICAL THEORY The Book combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler’s political ideology. Mein Kampf devided into 2 volumes. The Volume 1 called “The Reckoning” and the Volume 2 “The National Social Movement” Mein Kampf has also been studied as a work on political theory. For example, Hitler announces his hatred of what he believed to be the world’s twin evils: Communism and Judaism. The new territory that Germany needed to obtain would properly nurture the “historic destiny” of the German people; this goal, which Hitler referred to as Lebensraum (living space), explains why Hitler aggressively expanded Germany Eastward, specifically the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland, before he launched his attack against Russia. In Mein Kampf Hitler openly states that the future of Germany “has to lie in the acquisition of land in the East at the expense of Russia”.
LEBENSRAUM: THE GERMANY LIVING SPACE
LEBENSRAUM was one of the major political ideas of Adolf Hitler, and an important component of Nazi ideology. It served as the motivation for the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany, aiming to provide extra space for the growth of the German population, for a Greater Germany. In Hitler’s book Mein Kampf, he detailed his belief that the German people needed Lebensraum (“living space”, i.e. land and raw materials), and that it should be found in the East. It was the stated policy of the Nazis to kill, deport, or enslave the Polish, Russian and other Slavic populations, whom they considered inferior, and to repopulate the land with Germanic peoples. The entire urban population was to be exterminated by starvation, thus creating an agricultural surplus to feed Germany and allowing their replacement by a German upper class.
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WORKING TOWARDS THE FUHRER
Nazi Germany was made up of various competing power structures, all trying to gain favor with the Führer, Adolf Hitler. Thus many existing laws were stricken and replaced with interpretations of what Hitler wanted. Any high party/government official could take one of Hitler’s comments and turn it into a new law, of which Hitler would casually either approve or disapprove.
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REICHSADLER: NATIONAL INSIGNIA OF GROSSDEUTSCHES REICH SCHUTZSTAFFEL PROTECTION SQUADRON STURMABTEILUNG STORM TROOPER NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHEDEUTSCHE ARBEITERPARTEI: THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS’ PARTY HITLER-JUGEND YOUNG HITLER
LET THE PROPAGANDA SPREAD THE IDEOLOGY
STURMABTEILUNG
Storm Detachment; or English: Stormtroopers functioned as a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. SA men were often called “brownshirts” for the colour of their uniforms
BRAINWASH PEOPLE.
CONTROL THE PEOPLE.
Ideological Control: It means to control someone not physically, but mentally, in a subtle, sub-conscious manner. You are not aware you are ideologically controlled, as it is everything that surrounds you! Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler’s leadership of Germany (1933–1945). Nazi propaganda provided a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of their policies, including the pursuit of total war and the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust.
CHUTZ
TAFFEL SCHUTZSTAFFEL
The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the Führer’s “Praetorian Guard”, the Nazi Party’s “Protection Squadron” and a force that, fielding almost a million men (both on the front lines and as political police), managed to exert as much political influence in the Third Reich as the Wehrmacht (Germany’s regular armed forces).
Initially a small branch of the Sturmabteilung, the SS grew in size and power due to its exclusive loyalty to Adolf Hitler, the SS selected its members according to the Nazi ideology. Creating elite police and military units such as the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler used the SS to form an order of men claimed to be superior in racial purity and ability to other Germans and national groups, a model for the Nazi vision of a master race
The Army of Nazis
THE DEVOTED FOLLOWER The Blinded, Masked Follower: The mask in here show that the follower are not beeing themself instead they just a vampire-like that follow everything the fuhrer want.
Communication theory points out that people can be persuaded by the communicator’s credibility, expertise, trustworthiness, and attractiveness. The elaboration likelihood model as well as heuristic models of persuasion suggest that a number of factors (e.g., the degree of interest of the recipient of the communication), influence the degree to which people allow superficial factors to persuade them. In this case Nazi control people to followed them and did something that uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.
Gain Control
Like A Puppet on The String The Follower Will Do Anything they Commanded To!
THE GENOCIDE OF JEWS
ANTI-SEMITISM: THE HATRED OF JEWS THAT LEAD TO HOLOCAUST Holocaust comes from the Greek word hol贸kauston, an animal sacrifice offered to a god in which the whole (holos) animal is completely burnt (kaustos) it was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic statesponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory. Approximately two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust perished.
MASS MURDER VICTIM
The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. Various legislation to remove the Jews from civil society, predominantly the Nuremberg Laws, was enacted in Nazi Germany years before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings.
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (in German Konzentrationslager, or KZ) throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps were greatly expanded in Germany after the Reichstag fire in 1933, and were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime. The number of camps quadrupled between 1939 and 1942 as Jews, political prisoners, criminals, homosexuals, gypsies, the mentally ill and others were incarcerated, generally without trial or judicial process.
NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Hostage camps/Death camps: Camps where hostages were held and killed as reprisals. Labor camps: Concentration camps where interned inmates had to do hard physical labor under inhumane conditions Prissoner of war camps: concentration camps where prisoners of war were held after capture. These POW’s endured torture and liquidation
TYPE OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Camps for rehabilitation and re-education of Poles: Camps where the intelligentsia of the ethnic Poles were held, and “re-educated” according to Nazi values as slaves. Transit and collection camps: Camps where inmates were collected and routed to main camps, or temporarily held. Extermination camps: These camps differed from the rest, since not all of them were also concentration camps.
DEATH LAB. THE NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP
Nazi Treats Jews As They Were Not Human
THE CONQUEST OF EUROPE The practical implementation of the Lebensraum concept began in 1939 with Germany’s occupation of Poland. In 1941, the German leadership decided that in ten to 20 years, the Polish state under German occupation was to be fully cleared of any ethnic Poles and resettled by German colonists. Ethnic Poles were cleared out of their houses so quickly that when colonists arrived, they found half-eaten meals on tables and unmade beds that small children had clearly been taken from. Ethnic Germans from the Baltic States were racially evaluated, with the highest rating being O Ost-Falle, the best classification, to be settled in the Eastern Wall. Colonisation incorporated 350,000 such “ethnic Germans” and 1.7 million Poles deemed Germanizable, including between one and two hundred thousand children who had been taken from their parents, plus about 400,000 German settlers from the “Old Reich”. Later, the ideology was also a major factor in Hitler’s launching of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. The Nazis hoped to turn large areas of Soviet territory into German settlement areas as part of Generalplan Ost. Developing these ideas, Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg proposed that the Nazi administrative organization in lands to be conquered from the Soviets
March On............
ANGEL OF DEATH
The desire for Lebensraum was a key tenet of several nationalist and extremist groups in post-World War I Germany, notably the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler. As the American historian Gerhard Weinberg noted, German demands for territorial revision went beyond merely regaining land lost under the Treaty of Versailles, and instead embraced calls for the German conquest and colonization of all Eastern Europe, regardless of whether the land in question had belonged to Germany before 1918 or not
Hitler’s nonaggression pact (1939) with Stalin allowed him to invade Poland, beginning World War II, while Stalin annexed Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to the USSR and attacked eastern Poland; but Hitler honored the pact only until he found it convenient to attack the USSR. In 1941, he assumed personal command of war strategy, leading to disaster. In early 1943 he refused to admit defeat at the battle of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), bringing death to vast numbers of German troops.
THE BEGINNING OF
THE END OF NAZISM
The Begining of:
The global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world’s nations, including all of the great powers: eventually forming two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis. The start of WW2 mark the begining of the end of nazism.
The war is generally accepted to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and Slovakia, and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth.
It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised. In a state of “total war,� the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by significant events involving the mass death of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it was the deadliest conflict in human history. resulting in: 40-70 million fatalities
WW2 DEVIDED THE WORLD INTO TWO MASSIVE POWER
The war is generally accepted to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and Slovakia, and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. Germany set out to establish a large empire in Europe. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or subdued much of continental Europe; amid Nazi-Soviet agreements, the nominally neutral Soviet Union fully or partially occupied and annexed territories of its six European neighbours. Britain and the Commonwealth remained the only major force continuing the fight against the Axis in North Africa and in extensive naval warfare. In June 1941, the European Axis launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, giving a start to the largest land theatre of war in history, which, from this moment on, was tying down the major part of the Axis military power. In December 1941, Japan, which had been at war with China since 1937, and aimed to dominate Asia, attacked the United States and European possessions in the Pacific Ocean, quickly conquering much of the region. The Axis advance was stopped in 1942 after the defeat of Japan in a series of naval battles and after defeats of European Axis troops in North Africa and, decisively, at Stalingrad. In 1943, with a series of German defeats in Eastern Europe, the Allied invasion of Fascist Italy, and American victories in the Pacific, the Axis lost the initiative and undertook strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded France, while the Soviet Union regained all territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies.
2 May, Berlin surrendered. Nazism was put to an end.
On Apr. 29 Hitler married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun, and on Apr. 30 they committed suicide together in an underground bunker of the chancellery building, having ordered that their bodies be burned. Hitler left Germany devastated; his legacy is the memory of one of the most dreadful tyrannies of modern times.
By July, 1944, the German military situation was desperate, and a group of high military and civil officials (including Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and Karl Goerdeler) attempted an assassination. Hitler escaped a bomb explosion with slight injuries; most of the plotters were executed. Although the war was hopelessly lost by early 1945, Hitler insisted that Germans fight on to the death. During the final German collapse in Apr., 1945, Hitler denounced Nazi leaders who wished to negotiate, and remained in Berlin when it was stormed by the Russians.
DOWNFALL. THE END OF THIRD REICH/NAZI
“THOSE WHO CANNOT ARE DOOMED
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Nazism : was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany. It was a unique variety of fascism that involved biological racism and antisemitism Fascism : is a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology.Fascists advocate the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation and the creation of an ideal “new man” to form a governing elite through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy including eugenics
LEARN FROM HISTORY, TO REPEAT IT” George Santayana 1863-1952 philosopher, essayist poet and novelist.
Racism The belief that the genetic factors that constitute race, ethnicity, or nationality are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that ethnic differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Anti-Semitism: prejudice against or hostility towards Jews often rooted in hatred of their ethnic background, culture, and/or religion. In its extreme form, it “attributes to the Jews an exceptional position among all other civilizations, defames them as an inferior group and denies their being part of the nations” in which they reside.
Nationalism The belief that the genetic factors that constitute race, ethnicity, Nationalism involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. Socialism Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating public or common ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources. Absolutism the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters.
SWASTIKA: The word swastika came from the Sanskrit word svastika, meaning any lucky or auspicious object, and in particular a mark made on persons and things to denote good luck. It is composed of su- meaning “good, well” and asti “to be” svasti thus means “well-being.” The suffix -ka either forms a diminutive or intensifies the verbal meaning, and svastika might thus be translated literally as “that which is associated with well-being,”
TURNED FROM GOOD INTO EVIL Following a brief surge of popularity in Western culture, the swastika from the 1930s became strongly associated with its iconic usage by Nazi Germany, and it has hence become stigmatized and taboo in the Western world.
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