1933-1939

=**Dictatorship Under the Third Reich (D-Rod and A-Rod)**=

** O n January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed head of the Nazi State (also known as the Third Reich). The rise of the Nazi State brought an end to the Republic in Germany. Because the Republic had ended, and the state of emergency due to the suspicious "Fire in the Reichstag" incident (click picture below), Germans enjoyed a state of no constitutional civil rights. This gave the military and government officials power over security of the people without confirmation by parliament. This was the end of the "Free Republic" and the beginning of the "Conservative Nazi Regime" in Germany. The leader of this regime was none other than Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Under Hitler and the Nazi party, Culture, Economy, Education, and Law were all under their control. Chancellor Hitler had final say in all legislative matters. All of these qualities of the dictatorship, under the Third Reich, allowed the Regime to control all of Germany by spreading their authority into all parts of daily life. Also, through their achievements in control, the Nazi State managed to spread and concur many parts of Europe (see map below). Vast amounts of propaganda were used to brainwash people into believing the goals of the regime and that their ideas were right and for the better. This increased the power of the Dictatorship and Nazi Reign. **
 * [[image:220px-Reichstagsbrand.jpg caption="Fire in the Reichstag (Click for Link)" link="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007657"]] ||
 * [[image:Picture_1.png height="250" align="left" caption="Map of Germany in 1933 (Click for Link)" link="@http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005141&MediaId=370"]] ||

__**Video of Expansion of Germany**


 * Early Stages of Persecution **__** (President Shapiro "This is Classified") **
 * **The Germans thought that Germans were the "super race", and that ANY person not like them was a biological threat to the purity of the "German race". The main targets were Jewish people, or people of Jewish descent, but they also did not like Gypsies, Handicapped, and Homosexuals as well. Often, Jews were not given the full rights, or proper justice. A german could get a debt from a Jew, but a Jew could almost never get a debt from a German. Somebody that wanted the Jew's job could just call them out against the Nazi party, and then take the job.**
 * **Many families were uprooted because the german man, or woman could get a divorce very easily.**
 * **Often, in the concentration camps, Jews were given worse treatment then the others.**
 * **All forms of media could be censored for just having an author that was not part of the "master race". Examples include Albert Einstein, who was Jewish, and Helen Keller, who overcame handicaps.**
 * **Lots of jewish business were boycotted then seized, or destroyed along with some of the synagogues. Then on November, 1939 came "the night of broken glass", or Kristallnacht. 1,000 synagogues were burned, 7,000 jewish business were wrecked. This event was carefully planned by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, head of the nazi propaganda ministry, and other Nazi officials. The next morning around 30 thousand Jews were arrested, and sent away or kept in jails for the "crime of being Jews".**
 * **Often Jews, Blacks, and Gypsies were put in involuntary sterilizing programs. This gained support from people claiming that the handicapped population was not good for their costs to care for them.**

**Resources** [|http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history/Modern_History/1914-1948/The_Holocaust/Early_Stages_of_Prosecution.shtml] [|http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005141] [|http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/manchester.htmlhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/summary/19331939.htmlhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/summary/19331939.html]