On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich .( NAZI STATE )
International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg )
The Allies described the war time military alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire as the 'Central Powers'.
DEPUTIES WERE ELECTED TO A GERMAN PARLIAMENT REICHSTAG ON THE BASIS OF EQUAL & UNIVERSAL VOTES CAST BY ALL ADULTS INCLUDING WOMEN . THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, HOWEVER, WAS NOT RECEIVED WELL BY ITS OWN PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE TERMS IT WAS FORCED TO ACCEPT AFTER GERMANY’S DEFEAT AT THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
Treaty of Versailles with the Allies was a harsh and humiliating peace. Germany lost its overseas colonies, a tenth of its population, 13 per cent of its territories,75 per cent of its iron and 26 per cent of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania. The Allied Powers demilitarised Germany to weaken its power. The War Guilt Clause held Germany responsible fort he war and damages the Allied countries suffered. Germany was forced to pay compensation amounting to £6 billion. The Allied armies also occupied the resource-rich Rhineland for much of the 1920s. Many Germans held the new Weimar Republic responsible for not only the defeat in the war but the disgrace at Versailles . “ THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES WAS HUMILIATING ON THE GERMANS’’. GIVE REASONS TO SUPPORT THE STATEMENT
The “Big Four” were David Lloyd George of Britain, Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson of America . Vittorio Emmanuelle Orlando of Italy, at the treaty of Versailles. Woodrow Wilson David Lloyd George Clemenceau Vittotio Emmanuell
DAWES PLAN
THE GREAT ECONOMIC DEPRESSSION
In Marxism, proletarianization is the social process whereby people move from being either an employer, unemployed or self-employed, to being employed as wage labor by an employer. Proletarianization is often seen as the most important form of downward social mobility. The Weimar constitution had some inherent defects , which made the government weak and unstable and vulnerable to dictatorship. The defects were: 1) Proportional representation: it became impossible for any one political party to achieve a majority, leading to rule by coalition government. 2) Article 48 gave the president the power to impose emergency, suspend civil rights and rule by decree. Within a short period Weimar Republic start twenty different cabinets lasting 239 days on an average ,this was a liberal use of Article 48. 3) People no longer had faith in the democratic parliamentary system as it offered no solutions.
NAZI SALUTE
DESTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY 1. Offering of chancellorship by president to Hitler. 2.Sending his enemies to concentration camps. 3.Fire decree of 28 February 1933 suspended all the rights . 4.Passing of enabling act , this act established dictatorship in Germany. 5.Special security and surveillance were brought in the army.
SA SD
HJALMAR SCHACHT VOLKSWAGEN “ THE PEOPLE’S CAR”
GERMANY ATTACK ON POLAND
GERMANY ATTACK ON RUSSIA
JAPAN ATTACK ON PEAL HARBOUR
6 TH AUGUST 9 TH AUGUST U.S ATOMIC BOMB ATTACK ON JAPAN
THE NAZI WORLDVIEW
ESTABLISHMENT OF A RACIAL STATE
JEWS
GYPSIES
GAS CHAMBERS
YELLOW STAR FOR JEWS GHETTO
YOUTH IN NAZI GERMANY ( AGE 10 TO 14)
AGE 14 TO 18 YEARS THE YOUTH LEAGUE OF THE NAZI FOUNDED IN 1922 IT WAS RENAMED AS HITLER YOUTH.
LABOUR SERVICE AT THE AGE OF 18
THE NAZI CULT OF MOTHERHOOD HONOUR CROSSES FOR WOMEN GOLD SILVER BRONZE