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Starting as a gang of unemployed soldiers, the Nazi Party would become the legal government of Germany.
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The Armistice allowed the German Army to remain intact and was not forced to admit defeat. The German politicians who signed in it were considered the "November Criminals". General John J. Pershing thought it would've been better for the Germans to admit defeat so there wouldn't be any doubt.
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The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to give territories to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, West Prussia and Upper. Article 231( or "War Guilt Clause") forcing the German nation to take resposibility for starting World War I. It also gave a limit to 100,000 army men and Navy Vessels to 100,000 tons.
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Hitler issued his first written comment on the Jewish Question, defining the Jews as race rather than a religious community. His ultimate goal was the removal of the Jews altogether.
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While Hitler was in prison he wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf (My Struggle). This book shows Hitler's ideas of German nationalism, antisemitism, and anti-Bolshelvism.
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Stock markets collapsed on Wall Street sending financial markets worldwide into a tailspin with disastrous effects. The German economy was vulnerable because of its dependence on foregin trade.
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Heinrich Bruning, the first chancellor under the new presidental system, wasn't able to unify the government. In 1930 there were new elections. The Nazi Party won an important victory becoming the second largest party in the Reichstag.
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During the next six years Hitler was able to successfully transform Germany into a Police state.
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Hilter had persuaded Hindenburg to back down from the position of Chancellor. A new chapter in German history began when Hitler exited the presidental palace as Chancellor of the German Nation.
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When the Reichstag buiding went up in flames Nazi's immediately said that this was the beginning of a Communist revolution. This incident made hitler convince Hindenburg to issue a Decree for Protection of People and State.
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throught this Adolf Hitler obtained plenary powers and established dictatorship. This act granted Cabinet the authority to make laws without the Reichstag's permission.
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Hitler decared a one day boycott of all Jewish stores and products. A list of Jewish stores was created and Nazi pickets were posted outside stores and factories preventing anyone to enter.
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Wilhelm Humboldt Univeristy transported books to be burned. They proceeded to toss thousands of titles, by many types of authors into the bonfire. This lasted for hours, interrupted by only Nazi songs and a speech by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
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This was the wiping out of SA's leaders and others that angered Hitler. After this the SS grew far more powerful in Germany.
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After Prestident Hindenburg died, Hitler combined the offices of Reich Chancellor and President, making himself Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor, or leader of the Reich.
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New laws set the racial policies that Hitler envisioned in his book Mein Kampf. "The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor" forbade marriage or sexual contact between Aryans and Jews. Jews were taken of all basic civil rights, classifying them as subjects rather than citizens. Jews were defined as a separate race.
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It was issued that Austrian and German Jews had to have a 'J' stamped on their passports.
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"Night of Broken Glass" Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels gave a free-for-all against the Jews. Almost 1,000 Synogogues were burned, 100 Jews were killed and 30,000 more were sent to concentration camps and tortured. Jewish shops had their windows smashed. A small time after this Jews were forced to give up their businessess and Jewish children were taken out of public schools.
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Although the ghettos weren't Hitler's creation, Nazi's turned them into a preliminary step to the extermination of the Jews.
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After securing the neutrality of the Soviet Union, germany started World War II by invading Poland. France and Britain's responce was declaring war on Germany on September 3rd.
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Reinhard Heydrich told several SS commanders that all jews must be placed in speacial areas in cities and towns. These ghettos were surrounded by brick walls, barbed wire and armed guards. Conditions in the gettos were so bad that thousands died of starvation and disease.
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General Governor Hans Frank made an ordinance that any Jew ten years or older living in the General Government must wear the Star of David.
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The camps were a critical part of the Nazi's systematic mass murder of the Jews and other undesirables.
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"Nacht und Nebel" This decree directed that people in occupied territories engaging in activities that undermined the security of the German troops were captured and brought to Germany for trial by special courts.
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The resistance against the Nazi's took many forms through out World War II. For most, the resistance was a struggle for physical existance.
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This meeting marked the turing point of the Nazi policy toward Jews. It was set to plan the "final solution" of the "Jewish question." The plan was to round up the Jews in Europe and transport and organize them into labour gangs. They never said anything about extermination, but a few moths later the first gas chambers were installed.
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An order was issued that Gypsies would also be sent to consentration camps.
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This was the begining of an armed revolt by a determined group of Warsaw ghetto dwellers. The ZOB (Jewish Fighter Organization) battled for months. The Nazi acted by bringing machine guns, tanks, destoying the ghetto and ultimatly killing the last of the 60,000 residents.
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After the Warsaw uprising there were many others. In Treblinka seven hundred Jews torched the death camp. Jews in the Bialystok ghetto attacked the German army, and on September 1 ghetto dwellers in Vilna revolted. Despite their determination only a few of the rebellions escaped.
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Many courageous citezens successfully hid and protected Jews until the defeat of Nazi Germany and the liberation of the death camps.
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Even today there are many unresolved issues from the holocaust.
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Many of the remaining camps were closed and destroyed to cover up evidence. Those people who had survived the camps were taken and forced to go on Death Marches.
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Allied troops stumbled upon the consentration camps and saw the brutality of the Germans. General Eisenhower insisted on documenting all of this so the world doesn't ignore the past and make the same mistake.
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In Nuremburg, 22 high ranking Nazi officials were named and brought to trial for the world to see. Robert Jackson addressed the International Military Tribunal the first day in court.
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The International Military Tribunal (IMT) announces its verdict to impose the death sentence to 12 of the 22 Nazi officials.
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United Nations General Assembly came up with a plan that split Palestine into a Arab state and Jewish state, with Jerusalem under international control.
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The Jews claimed the independent state of Israel theirs. The next day though, Arab nations attacked Israel.
