Germany-Post+World+War+I+to+1933

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 * 1) ==The Aftermath of World War I ==
 * The impact of World War I on Germany was devastating. Not only were many men dead and wounded from the war, but the country was also experiencing hyperinflation (when the local currency is worth less and less). With the new, weaker government, many Germans were searching for someone to blame for the lost war.

HYPERINFLATION
 After World War I, Germany had many debts and repairs to pay for. It  was the country paying the most money: **39 billion dollars **! The
 *  German government was paying more than they had, leading to hyperinflation. This was so extreme that in 1914 the exchange rate from 4 Marks (German Currency) to 1 dollar had risen to approximately 1 trillion Marks per dollar in 1923. Currency was loosing value so fast that Germans used up their payment of Marks earned from only one hour of work as quickly as possible to prevent the money from losing its value. **

Having lost around **2 million working men ** with many wounded during the war, German products also lost value due to lack of experienced workers.



**W ** **EIMER REPUBLIC **
 Another problem for Germans was the **new government **. The **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Weimer Republic **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, with Friedrich Ebert as president, was the first democracy Germany had experienced and came as a replacement for the King. Sadly, this government did not have much support, even its own parties, **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the extreme left and right **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, were against the democracy. These two groups represented many of the viewpoints of the German people. The left wing was mainly the **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SDP **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (Social Democratic Party). But this wing was only trying to make the democracy better. The right wing was more of a problem for the new democracy, for it was trying to put a totally new government in place. The right was composed of the **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Center Party **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (who protected catholic viewpoints) and the **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">DDP **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(German Democratic Party or "Deutsche Democratische Partei"). =<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">JEWISH LIFE IN EUROPE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST = <span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">With all these reasons to be angry, ** **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the Germans searched for people to blame ****<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">. **

-9 million Jews living in Europe before the war -Common Jewish jobs were farmers, tailors, seamstresses, factory hands, accountants, doctors, teachers, and small-business owners -Some families had a lot of money, while many more did not have much money at all -Majority of children stopped their education early to work in a craft or trade, yet some kept moving forward with their education on to university level //<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-One thing was the same with all: by the 1930's they all become potential victims of the Nazis and their lives would never be the same. //<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">EASTERN (Poland, Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania) **<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Largest Jewish populations in eastern Europe - **<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Shtetls **<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">: predominantly Jewish towns or villages - **<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Yiddish **<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">: combination of German and Hebrew (Spoke the language, read books, theater/movies) -Younger Jews were beginning to adopt modern ways and dress -Older Jews were traditional -Traditional Jewish Dress -Men: hats or caps -Woman: Covering hair with wigs/kerchiefs -Minority where they lived, so they usually adopted the culture of the non-Jewish people living around them -Dressed and talked like countrymen -Jewish traditions, practices, and culture was less important -More formal education than Jews living in Eastern Europe -Lived in towns or cities rather than Shtetls
 * <span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">WESTERN (Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium) **<span style="color: #ac00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

=<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">NAZI RISE TO POWER ( UNDER HITLER)- =
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hitler spoke in front of a crowd of around 6,000 in Munich during February 1921
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">During this speech, truckloads of Party supporters were sent out to drive around with swastikas, cause a commotion, and hand out sheets of information[[image:http://photo.net/general-comments/attachment/2194930/nazi.gif width="266" height="161" caption="Swastikas: Nazi Symbol"]]
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hitler was against the Treaty of Versailles, rival politicians and political groups, Marxists, and the Jews.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Munich was the center for the Nazi Party[[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YYMeAu4i7gA/Sw98aKLK_BI/AAAAAAAAG_k/mACULbLChVo/s1600/nazi-germany-second-world-war-ww2-color-clour-pictures-images-photos-hitler-mussolini-munich-railway-station-1938.jpg width="437" height="257" caption="Nazis marching in Munich"]]
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There were army officers that were determined to end Marxism and the young German democracy in Berlin
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hitler plotted different ways to take over.[[image:http://la8period3.pbworks.com/f/announcement%20of%20nuremberg%20laws.jpg width="344" height="258" caption="Hitler making a speech"]]
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the summer of 1921, he traveled to Berlin to visit nationalist groups
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Nazis formed an alliance with a group of socialists from Augsburg because they felt Hitler was turning dictatorial
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hitler resigned from the Nazi Party on July 11, 1921
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Nazis didn’t want the Nazi Party to end, Hitler took advantage of this, and announced his return
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hitler said he would only return if he was made chairman and given dictatorial powers
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There were obstacles on the way of Hitler returning, as bad press and people not agreeing
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When the final vote was counted, there were 543 votes for, and one against
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Hitler earned the title Führer (Leader) of the Nazi Party on July 29, 1921
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In 1933 Hilter became Chancellor of the German Nation
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hilter became dictator of Germany on March 23 1933
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nazis burned all "un-German" books[[image:http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Technology/images/nazi-book-burning.jpg width="263" height="197" caption="Nazis burning "un-German" books"]]
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nuremberg laws are formed for all the Jews of Germany on September 15, 1935
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hitler becomes Army Commander on February 1938
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nazis take Austria on March 12, 1938
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nazis break all of Jews shops windows
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In 1930 Hitler and the Nazis conducted a rapid campaign in Germany
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In this campaign, Hitler traveled cross country, delivering many speeches, attending meetings, shaking hands, signing autographs, posing for pictures, and kissing babies
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Joseph Goebbels kept everything publicized and up to date with organzing meetings, parades, posters, and special edition Nazi newspapers
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Hitler was a very good speech maker
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He would find audiences that he knew would listen to him, and he’d offer them encouragement
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">He made special promises to people, but left out the bad detail
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Hitler would repeat catch phrases over and over
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The appearances Hitler made were designed to be very flashy. Tension would increase in the audience while they waited on Hitler’s entrance. When Hitler would finally enter, loud military music would play and banners would display. Hitler would then enter yelling ‘Heil!’[[image:http://www.annefrankguide.net/en-US/content/kristallnacht.jpg width="229" height="185" caption="Kristallnacht: Jewish shops windows after Nazis smashed them "]]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">QUIZ
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. About how much Marks was a dollar worth in 1923? 2. What are Shtetls? 3. Where were Jews minority? 4. What was Hitler against? 5. Where was the center of the Nazi Party?

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