REL 2120 Study Guide - Child Abuse, Social Democracy, Paul Von Hindenburg
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Lecture 12 (continued: the nazis planned and implemented the holocaust to create more space for their people, and get rid of anybody who wasn"t aryan, the ideal future of the world would consist of race conscious aryan. Germans who obeyed and conformed: aryan is a linguistic term, and originally has nothing to do with race, hitler and the nazis required unconditional obedience. January 30, 1933: hitler appointed reich chancellor of germany by president paul von. Hindenburg: the president was under no obligation to appoint hitler to power. This is where the government of germanys began to fail. Enemies of the nazis: communists, social democrats, all non-nazi politicians, trade union leaders, spiritual resisters- jehovah"s witnesses, social deviants- homosexuals. Those who persistently refused to be reformed would be terrorized and punished: storm troopers and elite guard, gorig ordered the police to shoot to kill all communist demonstrators, bloody sunday- february 12, 1933. This left one communist dead and hundreds wounded.
