Hitler’s Rise to Power 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch Failed, Hitler jailed for treason 1924 – Hitler released from prison 1925 – Mien Kampf is published 1929 – Hitler has expanded the Nazi party to a national level 1932 – Nazi party memberships exceeds 800,000 1933 - President Hindenburg makes Hitler Chancellor • Reichstag burns, Hitler blames communists • 2/3 of the Reichstag vote in favour of the enabling act, which made

Hitler dictator • Hitler immediately purges civil service of Jews and people opposed

to him. 1934 – President Hindenburg dies, Hitler has become the sole leader of Germany – The Fuhrer 1934 – Night of the Long Knives aka the Blood Purge

Propaganda Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

Techniques

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – (the message) must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.“

- Adolph Hitler

• Ad nauseam • Ad hominem • Appeal to fear • Appeal to authority • Bandwagon • Half-truths

Joseph Goebbels

• Reich Minister of Propaganda

• One of Hitler’s closest and most trusted associates

The Triumph of the Will

• Propaganda Film by Leni Riefenstahl, produced under supervision of Joseph Goebbels

• Released in 1935

• Depicts the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg

• Over 700,000 supporters in attendance

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi

• Released in 1943

• Produced by Walt Disney under contract for the United States

Historical Literature Assignment

• Group Project

• Fiction and Non-Fiction

• Read a book with a group

• Group and Individual Assignments

• Short Presentations

The Books

• John Hersey – Hiroshima

• Elie Wiesel – Night

• John Steinbeck – The Moon is Down

• Michelle Magorian – Goodnight Mr. Tom

• John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

• Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five