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hi everyone this is mr trio and this is
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the fourth presentation in our series
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for the depth studies b germany
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1918 19
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the focus of this particular
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section
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answers the question
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what was it like to live in nazi germany
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there are four focus points
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how did young people react to the nazi
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regime
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how successful were nazi policies
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towards women and the
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family did most people
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in germany benefit from nazi rule
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and finally how did the coming of war
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change life in nazi germany
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so once again
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let's begin by looking at big ideas what
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do these four
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focus points essentially tell us in the
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story of nazi rule in germany
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number one
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is indoctrination
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this is a concept in which young people
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are brought into the nazi system taught
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the nazi system in order for them to
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essentially
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create the new nazi society for the
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future
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adolf hitler believed that this was the
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third great
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german society to come about
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and essentially
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what you will often see this time period
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refer to
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is the third reich
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we're going to focus on women and family
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in particular
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and one of the key concepts is often
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referred to
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as the three k's we'll get into this a
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little later but the three k's
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essentially stand for
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children church
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and
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kitchen
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we're going to talk about the concept of
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german pride how the nazis were able to
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convince people that this was a better
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time for germans
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than previous years
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and the last focus point
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is about
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the shortages that the impending war
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uh will bring back to germany
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uh when
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uh the second world war does begin
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let's take a look at our first focus
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point which is how did young people
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react to the nazi regime
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there are three main areas that i want
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to talk about the first being schools
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one of the things that the nazi party
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essentially believed in is that they
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needed to train young people into this
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new concept this new idea of what the
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nazis believed in
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and they were very effective in creating
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a national curriculum in which these
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things would be taught
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once a nazi party took over the
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government it created a nationwide
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curriculum that taught beliefs of the
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nazi party included master race theory
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anti-semitism and the importance of the
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military
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this photograph helps to illustrate how
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at the beginning of the day the school
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children would essentially
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reinforce their loyalty
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to their leader adolf hitler and to the
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nazi party in general
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there were special programs that were
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specifically designed for girls starting
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at age 10
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through age 18
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and specifically these programs were
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designed to teach young women how to be
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good mothers
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and how they
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served a very important role in
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producing the next generation of germans
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there were two groups in particular that
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were important
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for girls
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the league of young girls and the league
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of german maidens
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maidens is just sort of an old-fashioned
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word
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for a girl that has not been married yet
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topic sentence the league of young girls
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and league of german maidens were
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created to reinforce good german values
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and prepare young women
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to be mothers
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this slide shows
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an award
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that young girls could receive
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or should say
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would receive later
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based on the number of children
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that they had
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there were also programs of course for
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boys
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um these programs
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were essentially
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a way to get
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boys to
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uh think
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more as a group
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opposed to thinking as an individual
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and these young programs for boys
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essentially
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were rooted in military training
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so essentially
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these are the young men who in the 1930s
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will be trained
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to be soldiers when the second world war
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begins
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hitler youth programs for boys focused
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on sports
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camaraderie and military training
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the importance of loyalty to the nazi
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party was more important than anything
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else
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focus point number two
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how successful were nazi policies
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towards women and families
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now we talked about this briefly before
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um women were encouraged to focus on the
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three k's
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at this time women really were
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encouraged not to be professionals
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there had been women who were professors
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doctors lawyers in germany
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but essentially those things were pushed
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aside
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in order for women
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to focus on the household
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raising of children
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and of course church was also an
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acceptable
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pastime or pursuit for women
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so although women may have benefited a
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great deal because of the programs that
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help to encourage family
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it also was a very limiting time when
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women lost positions at major
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universities professional organizations
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and also as members of the reichstag
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women were encouraged to focus on the
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three k's children church and kitchen
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the government helped to reinforce this
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by having policies to encourage marriage
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having children
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and parenting classes
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this is a medal
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in which
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was given to women who successfully had
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five or more children
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so once again this is
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an idea that the nazis are trying to
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reinforce
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that the women's
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role in nazi society is to have children
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one of the most bizarre
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programs of this time period
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is known as the lebensborn program
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in which
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young girls
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from good families who were not married
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were actually impregnated
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by
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officers of the ss
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who were good german soldiers
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in order to create
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a new society
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for the future
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and this program was essentially
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designed
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for young girls to
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reinforce this idea of the master race
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to create a new society
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for germany and it does seem a little
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bizarre by today's standards of course
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but it certainly was a part
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of this
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greater master theory
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uh master race theory that was behind
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the nazi regime
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let's look at the topic sentence
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the lebensborn program was designed for
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unmarried girls to get pregnant by
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racially pure ss men
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and then donate their child to the
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fuhrer
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focus point number three
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did most people in germany benefit from
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nazi rule
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now i think that your textbook does a
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nice job
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of highlighting things such as the
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working class
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farmers and also businessman and
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industrialists that did benefit
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from
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uh the nazi regime taken place uh taken
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over essentially but one of the things
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that i really want to focus on
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as a part of our
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big ideas
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is that
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the nazis were very
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effective in helping to change the
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attitude of german people
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and one of the things
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that they were able to do
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is to
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get germans to once again be proud of
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who they were
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germans had suffered greatly during the
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first world war
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later in the great depression there had
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been shortages and hardships
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and one of the things that did happen
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when the nazis came to power is that
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industries began to
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produce again and hitler reinforced the
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idea that it was fined
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or encourage to be
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proud of the fact that they were germans
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and there were lots of things in
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everyday society that helped to
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reinforce this
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volkswagen for example which translates
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roughly to the people's car
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was developed essentially during this
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time period and became this
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international symbol of
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how germans can do
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during this time period
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one of the reasons why the nazis enjoyed
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success during this period was that they
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gave ordinary people back the pride that
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they had lost
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after the first world war and great
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depression
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of course as a qualifier it's important
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to remind everyone
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that not everyone
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fit into this new german society
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minorities such as jews
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individuals that were
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roma or cinti
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they did not of course
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belong to this new feel-good german
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idea
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so
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essentially
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what this program was designed to do is
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focus on
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racially pure germans as the nazis would
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have put it
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now for our final focus point
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how did the coming of war change life in
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nazi germany
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once the war began the nazis had initial
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success
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and
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for example in poland they were very
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successful
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from a military point of view
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but as the war progressed and eventually
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when the united states would enter the
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war against germany
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the war started to change
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and
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at that time
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some of the things that had occurred in
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germany beforehand came back
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and one of the things
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that happened
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is that the americans with a very strong
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air force
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were able to actually bomb
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many of the german cities especially
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those that had large industries
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so
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civilians
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were directly in fire areas or fire
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zones
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of these bombings and germans suffered
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from many hardships during this time
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period
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the war brought back to germany
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rationing and shortages
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in addition as the war progressed german
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citizens in cities like berlin
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colin
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hamburg and dresden faced bombings from
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the american plains
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the idea of total war
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goes a little bit further
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in that by mid 1944
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a essentially germany saw the writing on
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the wall
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and that they realized that the war was
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going to be lost
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and instead of
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trying to seek
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a surrender
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essentially they threw everything that
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they had in order for the war to be won
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it was during this time that very old
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men
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and young boys were drafted into the
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military
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and women who had once held very high
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positions as head of the
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family and head of the kitchen
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they were forced
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into factories in order to work
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to supply materials for the war effort
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in mid 1944
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the war was turning against germany
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propaganda minister goebbels announced
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emergency measures that directed all
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sources
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to the war effort
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young men were drafted into the military
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and women were forced to work into
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factories until age 50.
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this was also a time
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that the final solution
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was put into place
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the final solution is often referred to
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as the plan that brought about the
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holocaust
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and
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this photograph for example is from the
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front gate at auschwitz which was one of
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the largest concentration camps that was
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established by the germans in poland
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so as the war progressed
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jews in germany of course were at risk
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but any germ jews in europe were also at
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risk of being captured by the nazi army
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the final solution was the plan to
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murder all jews this was done through
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mass shootings
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slave labor and gas chambers at
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concentration camps
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it is estimated
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that 6 million jews were killed during
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the holocaust
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let's take a look at the four main ideas
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once again
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the indoctrination of young boys and
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girls was done in order to create a new
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nazi society known as the third reich
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although many nazi policies were
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positive towards women and families
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the nazi belief was
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that women had a limited role to play in
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the third reich
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many germans had suffered in the years
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after the first world war and the nazi
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regime gave
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the promise of renewed prosperity
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and pride
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and then finally a wartime germany
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returned the country back to many
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hardships
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and was the origin of the final solution
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i'd like to thank everybody
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for
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watching our video series on chapter
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nine
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depth studies germany 1919-1945
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please visit our google classroom to
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look at sample questions
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as it relates to this
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depth study
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once again if you have questions feel
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free to contact me
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and i'll be happy to help you out
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so
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