HST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Volksgemeinschaft, Munich Agreement, Sturmabteilung
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Hst 112 | week 10 | april 4, 2016. Argument: the hitler regime"s goal was to create the volksgemeinschaft (people"s community) by eliminating german jews from society. Anti-semitic policy was intimately linked to foreign policy. Foreign policy success and territorial expansion were wildly popular, and allowed hitler to implement increasingly radical anti-semitic policies at home. April 1933: law for restoration of the public service: brown shirts (sa): germans! Law for protection of german blood and honor. Terror: kristallnacht, nov 9-10, 1938 (night of broken glass) 30,000 jewish men & boys deported to concentration camps: wiesbaden synagogue burning, concentration camps. National socialist foreign policy: revising versailles: rearmament (mar 1935, militarization of rhineland (mar 1936) National socialist foreign policy: greater germany : anschluss with austria (mar 1938, czechoslovakia & sudentenland (sept 1938) Argument: to many observers, hitler"s foreign policy aims seemed rational. It was not clear to many people, perhaps not even the nazis themselves, that germany would attempt to kill all.
