Transcript Aim: Why didn’t the German people stop Hitler?

Do Now: Take out your circle maps from yesterday and
complete add to the democratic map.
Nazi Germany
Democratic Country
Totalitaria
n Rule
1 – Nuremberg Laws – laws that stripped German
Jews of their rights to freedom, property & life.
2 – Mandatory military service for all males, children
were forced to join Hitler Youth so they could be
brainwashed.
3 – Government controls all media. All Anti-Nazi ideas
were illegal & punishable by law.
4 – Important members of German society were forced
to join the Nazi Party & contribute money.
Secret
Police
1 – Gestapo – the German secret police; used
thousands of informers to intimidate Nazi opponents
into silence.
2 – Used the Gestapo to arrest & execute political
opponents.
1 – tremendous desire for people to “fit in” with their
Social
Pressure fellow citizens. Many Germans were unwilling to risk
their lives going against the government.
“For evil to succeed;
good people must remain uninvolved.”
- Why is this quote true in the case of the Nazis and the
Jewish people?