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A Nazi-era school textbook for German students entitled Heredity and Racial Biology for Students written by Jakob Graf described to students the Nazi conception of the Aryan race in a section titled "The Aryan: The Creative Force in Human History". [175]
The Nazi Party, [b] officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei [c] or NSDAP), was a far-right [10] [11] [12] political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
Over the next five months, the Nazis systematically force all opposition political parties to shut down. 5 March: Reichstag Election results in slim majority for Hitler's coalition, though not a majority for the Nazi Party, which polls 17.2 million votes (43.9%) and wins 288 seats. 9 March: Heinrich Himmler becomes Police President in Munich.
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
A new organisation, the German Labour Front, was created and placed under Nazi Party functionary Robert Ley. [257] Many unemployed people were forcibly drafted into this organisation, where they were given uniforms and tools and put to work.
The people of Germany, tired of the old economic systems voted for the Nazis and the Communists, who made great gains at the 1930 federal election. [65] The Nazis and Communists between them secured almost 40% of Reichstag seats, which required the moderate parties to consider negotiations with anti-democrats. [66] "
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
History; Elections • March 1933 (8th ... The government of Nazi Germany was a totalitarian dictatorship governed ... the Nazi leadership created a large number of ...