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GIDB6036582-Nazism and The Rise of Hitler Notes

This document contains lesson notes on Nazism and the rise of Hitler in Germany. It discusses several key topics: 1) Why the Weimar Republic was unpopular with Germans after World War 1 and the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles. 2) The impacts of World War 1 on European countries. 3) How the Great Depression greatly impacted Germany's economy. 4) Hitler's reconstruction measures after rising to power. 5) The Nazi world view of racial hierarchy and ideas borrowed from social Darwinism. 6) Hitler's concept of Lebensraum and desire for more territory. 7) How Hitler achieved his vision of a racially pure state. 8) The Nazi views on educating German youth. 9) The Nazi treatment of

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GIDB6036582-Nazism and The Rise of Hitler Notes

This document contains lesson notes on Nazism and the rise of Hitler in Germany. It discusses several key topics: 1) Why the Weimar Republic was unpopular with Germans after World War 1 and the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles. 2) The impacts of World War 1 on European countries. 3) How the Great Depression greatly impacted Germany's economy. 4) Hitler's reconstruction measures after rising to power. 5) The Nazi world view of racial hierarchy and ideas borrowed from social Darwinism. 6) Hitler's concept of Lebensraum and desire for more territory. 7) How Hitler achieved his vision of a racially pure state. 8) The Nazi views on educating German youth. 9) The Nazi treatment of

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Name: Class: 9

Name of the Teacher: Date:


Topic: Lesson Notes – Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

1. Why was Weimar Republic not received well by the Germans? (5 Mark)
i) i)Weimar Republic was forced to accept the treaty after Germany’s defeat at the end
of the First World War.
ii) The Versailles treaty was a harsh and humiliating one.
iii) Germany lost its overseas colonies, a tenth of its population, 13 per cent of its
territories.
iv) 75 per cent of its iron and 26 per cent of its coal to France, Poland and Denmark.
v) Germany was forced to pay compensation amounting to £6 billion to the Allies.
2. what were the impacts of World War 1 on the European countries? (5 mark)
i) The First World War left a deep imprint on European society and polity.
ii) Soldiers came to be placed above civilians.
iii) Politicians and publicists laid great stress on men to be aggressive, strong and
masculine.
iv) The media glorified trench life, the truth, however, was that soldiers lived miserable
lives.
v) Aggressive war propaganda and national honour occupied centre stage in the public
sphere.
3. What were the consequences of Great Economic Depression on Germany? (5 mark)
i) German investments and industrial recovery were totally dependent on short-term
loans, largely from the USA.
ii) This support was withdrawn when the Wall Street Exchange crashed in 1929.
iii) The German economy was the worst hit by the economic crisis.
iv) By 1932, industrial production was reduced to 40 per cent of the 1929 level.
v) The number of unemployed touched an unprecedented 6 million.
4. Explain the Reconstruction measures introduced by Hitler. (3 Mark)
i) Hitler pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933.
ii) Reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936, and integrated Austria and Germany in 1938
under the slogan, One people, One empire, and One leader.
iii) He occupied German speaking Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia, and gobbled up
the entire country.
5. Explain Nazi World View and its origin. (5 mark)

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i) According to Nazi World View, there was no equality between people, but only a
racial hierarchy.
ii) The Blond, blue-eyed, Nordic German Aryans were at the top, while Jews were
located at the lowest rung.
iii) Nazis borrowed the ideologies of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.
iv) According to this idea, only those species survived on earth that could adapt
themselves to changing climatic conditions.
v) The strongest race will survive and the weakest will perish.
6. What do you understand by the concept of “Lebensraum”? (3 Mark)
i) Hitler’s ideology is related to the geopolitical concept of Lebensraum, or living
space.
ii) He believed that new territories of settlement would enhance the area of the
mother country with the settlers to retain an intimate link with the place of their
origin.
iii) It would also enhance the material resources and power of the German nation.
7. How did Hitler achieve his concept of Racial State? (3 mark)
i) Nazis implemented their dream of creating racial community of pure Germans by
physically eliminating all those who were seen as ‘undesirable.
ii) Nazis wanted a society of ‘pure and healthy Nordic Aryans’ who were considered
‘desirable’.
iii) Germans who were seen as impure or abnormal had no right to exist under the
Euthanasia Programme.
8. Explain the views of Nazis on Youth. (5 Mark)

i) Hitler felt that a strong Nazi society could be established only by teaching children
Nazi ideology.
ii) ‘Good German’ children were subjected to a process of Nazi schooling, a prolonged
period of ideological training.
iii) School textbooks were rewritten and racial science was introduced to justify Nazi
ideas of race.
iv) Children were taught to be loyal and submissive, hate Jews, and worship Hitler.
v) Youth organisations were made responsible for educating German youth in the ‘the
spirit of National Socialism’.
vi) Ten-year-olds had to enter Jungvolk, at 14, all boys had to join the Nazi youth
organisation named Hitler Youth.
(Any Five Points to be explained)
9. How were Mothers treated by the Nazis? (5 Mark)

i) Nazi believed that women were radically different from men and to fight for equal
rights for men and women was wrong and it would destroy society.
ii) In Nazi Germany, all mothers were not treated equally.

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iii) Women who bore racially undesirable children were punished and those who bore
racially desirable children were awarded.
iv) Women were given favoured treatment in hospitals and were also entitled to
concessions in shops and on theatre tickets and railway fares.
v) To encourage women to produce many children, honour Crosses were awarded.

10. Enumerate the art of propaganda used by the Nazis. (5 Mark)


i) The Nazi regime used language and media with care, and often to great effect.
ii) Nazis never used the words ‘kill’ or ‘murder’ in their official communications.
iii) Mass killings were termed special treatment, final solution (for the Jews),
euthanasia (for the disabled), selection and disinfections.
iv) Nazi ideas were spread through visual images, films, radio, posters, catchy slogans
and leaflets.
v) Propaganda films were made to create hatred for Jews. The most infamous film was
‘The Eternal Jew.’

11. Describe the Holocaust. (3 Mark)


i) The atrocities and sufferings the Jews endured during the Nazi killing operations
were known as Holocaust.
ii) Jews collected and preserved documents wrote diaries, kept notebooks, and
created archives of their sufferings under the Nazi rule.
iii) Jews wanted the world to remember the atrocities and sufferings they had
endured during the Nazi killing operations.

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