The rise of the Nazi Party

• June, 1933, 0.75 % of the 67million German population consisted of Jews,

• Jews belonged to all classes of society and contributed to the German life

• German Jews did not follow the cultural and religious Jewish traditions as strictly as the Eastern European Jews.

The Nazi Gain Power:

• Nazi Party (NSDAP) gained 40% of votes and 37% of votes in second election.

• Adolf Hitler demanded to be chancellor, In January 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg gave Hitler the position of chancellor

• August 1934, on Hindenburgs death, Hitler combined the President and Chancellor and turned Germany into a one party state

Nazi Belief

• believed the idea of Aryan master race as the superior (top) group in a hierarchy of different racial groups. (Aryan = tall, blonde or brown hair, blue or light eyes)

• Nazi expected Aryan women to commit themselves to motherhood so the race will multiply.

• believed in the “sub humans” were at the bottom of the hierarchy (Serbs, Russians, Poles and Serbs)

• group lower is the “unworthy of life” (criminals, homosexuals, mentally ill, Gypsies, Romani and Jews)

Eugenics

• Nazi claimed to regain position as world power, to recreate the master race, and remove the people who saw it racially inferior

• unsuitable for parenting to be sterilised (removing the ability to have children) to keep the good genes.

• Eugenics meaning good genes is the goal to imrpove the human condition by having the best genes.