The chapter notes cover Hitler's rise to power and Nazi politics. Additionally, we comprehend the plight of children and women in Nazi Germany. You'll learn how schools were used to teach Nazi youngsters and how concentration camps were utilised against Jews throughout the chapter. Additionally, it shows facts about Nazism and how they denied numerous minorities the right to life, instilled anti-Jewish sentiments, and waged war against democracy and socialism.
Nazism and Rise of Hitler
When was World War 2 fought? Who were the winning and losing sides?
World War II also known as Second World War was fought between 1939 to 1945 between the two opposing military alliances called the Allied and Axis Powers.
At the end of the war, the Axis powers consisting of Germany, Italy and Japan were on the losing side.
The Soviet Union (USSR) had initially been a part of axis powers but switched sides to Allied powers when it was attacked by Germany.
The USA joined the Allied powers after Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.
In May 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies after Hitler, his propaganda minister Goebbels and his entire family committed suicide collectively in his Berlin bunker in April.
Not only the Nazi leaders but many Nazi sympathisers had committed suicide in fear of revenge for the acts against humanity that they had committed during the WWII.
What were these acts against humanity?
Germany had waged a genocidal war, which resulted in the mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians of Europe. The number of people killed included: - 6 million Jews - 200,000 Gipsies - 1 million Polish civilians
- 70,000 Germans who were considered mentally and physically disabled, besides innumerable political opponents.
Many of these people were killed in Gas Chambers such as one in Auschwitz The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
At the end of the war, an International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals for Crimes against Peace, for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
The Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven leading Nazis to death.