Hitler and Nazi Germany

Racism especially anti semitism was one of his views. He thought that no jew could be a good german.

After he served 4 years in world war 1, he joined the german workers party, an extremist party in Munich.

By the summer, Hitler had completly taken over the party and renamed it nsdap or nazi for short. Within two years, the membership grew imensely

Hitler stages an uprising in the beer hall putsch against the government and was quickly sent to prison. During his time in jail, he wrote the book, Mein Kampf

The president Hidenburg under pressure allowed hitler to be chancellor.

This law gave the government the power to ignore the constitution for four years to deal with the countries problems.

When the president dies, Hitler becomes the sole ruler of Germany

These laws excluded jews from german citizenship. jews were defined by if they had a jewish grandparent. Jews were forced to wear yellow stars of david and carry identification cards.

in a violent rampage against the jews, nazis burned synaogues and destroyed jewish businesses. many jews were killed that night and 30 thousand were sent to concentration camps.