Tag: causes, aim and impact of nazism

In Germany students between 10-14 years of Age had to join an organization called Jungvolk. These were made responsible for educating German youth in the ‘the spirit of National Socialism’. 

In October 1933, some nine months after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the German government announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations. The reason was the refusal of the Western powers to accept Germany’s demands to increase its military.

Hitler wrote his autobiography Mein Kampf in the year 1925. This book outlines the Hitler's political ideologies and plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926.

Charlotte Beradt, was a Berlin-based journalist. She secretly recorded people’s dreams in her diary and later published them in a book called the Third Reich of Dreams. She describes how Jews themselves began believing in the Nazi stereotypes. They dream of their hooked noses, black hair and eyes, Jewish looks and body movements.

Hitler rejected the treaty of Versailles because terms of the Treaty were very damaging to Germany. Germany's armed forces were greatly reduced under this treaty and territory was taken from Germany which deprived it of its valuable industrial and agricultural income.

• Anti-Semitism means prejudice against Jewish people. In the east, most Jews lived a more traditional life, speaking Yiddish and living in small villages.
• They were separated from their neighbours because of anti-Semitism.

Hitler excluded Jews in three stages. These were Exclusion, Ghettoisation, and Annihilation.

Adolf Hitler was enrolled for the army during the First World War. He acted as a messenger in the front and became a Corporal. He earned medals for his bravery. The German defeat horrified him and the Treaty of Versailles made him furious. Later in 1919, he joined a small group called the German Workers' Party. Workers of this party were called National Socialist. Then he took over this organisation and renamed it the National Socialist German Workers' Party. This party came to be known as the Nazi Party.

• The National Socialist Party or the Nazis was formed in the year 1921. By 1923, Adolf Hitler was their leader.
• The ideas of Nazism are documented in Hitler's book Mein Kampf.