HST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Anschluss, Totalitarianism, Phoney War
Document Summary
The hitler regime"s goal was to create the volksgemeinschat (people"s community) by eliminaing german jews from society. Ani-semiic policy was inimately linked to foreign policy. Foreign policy success and territorial expansion were wildly popular and allowed hitler to implement increasingly radical ani-semiic policies at home. Establishing the racial state: cumulaive radicalizaion: phase one, 1933-35 unoicial discriminaion. April 1933: law for restoraion of the public service: phase two, 1935-38 legal discriminaion. Law for protecion of german blood and honor. Reich ciizenship law (november: phase three, 1938-41 terror. Kristallnacht, november 9-10, 1938 (night of broken glass) Naional socialist foreign policy: revising versailles. Militarizaion of rhineland (march 1936: greater germany . To many observers, hitler"s foreign policy aims seemed raional. It was not clear to many people, perhaps not even the nazis themselves, that germany would atempt to kill all. Instead, the final soluion (1941) may have emerged incrementally, through. Cumulaive radicalizaion over the course of the war.
