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hi everyone this is Mr Trio and I'm
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happy to present the third video in our
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series the depth studies be Germany
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1918 to
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1945 this third chapter focuses on the
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question how effectively did the Nazis
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control Germany from 1933 to
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1945 there are five Focus points for
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this particular chapter let's take a
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look at
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them how much opposition was there to
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the Nazi
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regime how effectively did the Nazis
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deal with the political
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opponents how did the Nazis use culture
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and the mass media to control the
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people why did the Nazis persecute many
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groups in German Germany
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Society was Nazi Germany a totari
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state so let's begin by looking at the
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five Big Ideas Behind these um focus
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points the first one is no one left to
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speak for me and we'll have a short
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discussion about the man that's pictured
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here a Protestant Pastor who was living
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in Germany during this time
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period the second Focus point is what I
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like to refer to as state sponsored
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fear what I mean by that is that there
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are vigilante groups that are a part of
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communities from time to time one of the
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big differences that we will be looking
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at with this Nazi regime
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is that these vigilante groups these
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groups that bring about fear are a part
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of the government and
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essentially they are state sponsored
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instruments of
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Terror we're going to be looking at
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popular culture and in particular the
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use of propaganda in Nazi
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Germany we're going to be looking at the
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theory of the master race and this
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belief system that the Nazis had about
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their superiority to other
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groups and then finally I am the state
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which is a statement that was first made
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by a French monarch in the 18th century
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in which the leader is essentially the
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government and we are going to look at
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how Adolf Hitler portrays himself as the
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leader or as in German uh the German
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word
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furer so let's begin with the first
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Focus point which is how much opposition
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was there to the Nazi
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regime and I'd like to begin by taking a
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look at this quote from Martin neh
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Hummer first they came for the Socialist
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and I did not speak out because I was
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not a socialist then they came for the
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trade unionist and I did not speak out
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because I was not a trade
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unionist then they came for the Jews and
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I did not speak out because I was not a
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Jew then they came for me and there was
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no one left to speak for
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me I think that Martin helps to
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illustrate one of the fundamental points
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about opposition groups to the Nazi
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regime and there were
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several this um little diagram helps to
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illustrate how there were different
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groups some left-wing groups right-wing
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groups youth groups Army groups Church
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groups and many of them did oppose the
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rise of the Nazi regime but what they
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did not do is they didn't work together
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in order to oppose the Nazi regime
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and thus the Nazi regime really was able
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to come to power because they had the
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largest group but they did not have a
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majority this is one of the themes that
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we've explored in other series but I
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think that this is really important to
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better understand how the Nazis were
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able to come to power because when
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groups were being
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persecuted the other groups did not
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stand up for them and they did not
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create a Coalition in order to oppose
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this
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group let's take a look at our topic
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sentence there was opposition to the
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rise of the Nazi party however
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opposition groups failed to work
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together to fight against a common
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threat and thus each were
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vulnerable in our textbook you can take
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a look at each of these different groups
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whether it was the trade unions uh the
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youth revolts that didn't happen certain
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church members that opposed the Nazi
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regime such as Martin however like I
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said each of these groups would be
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individually targeted by the Nazi regime
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and none of them really worked together
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in order to oppose
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it Focus Point number two how
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effectively did the Nazis deal with the
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political
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opponents
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this diagram which is also from our
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textbook helps to illustrate the five
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major groups that were the instruments
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which the Nazi party used in order to
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suppress free speech and the people who
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may oppose them at the very top I want
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to focus on informers first one of the
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reasons why I think informers are
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important is that at the heart of Nazi
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Society there was
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fear and one of the things that the
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Nazis were able to do is they were able
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to get Ordinary People to inform upon
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their neighbors their children um would
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uh inform upon their parents husbands
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and wives would inform against each
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other in which the Nazis took advantage
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of spreading this fear so individuals
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would essentially blame others and point
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to others for the Nazis to arrest or to
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question or in other words
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suppress the idea of free
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speech the Gestapo which is
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here is the secret police which the
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Nazis
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created uh individuals could be at home
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there could be a knock on the door the
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gapo could come in side arrest you take
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you away and you could disappear never
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be seen from again in other words at
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this time individuals were fearful that
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their civil Li civil liberties uh could
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essentially be taken away from them
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without any um cause there was no
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evidence or habus Corpus uh to use the
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legal term um that could protect an
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individual
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other groups such as the
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SS uh were very important in that the SS
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were a military group that enforced the
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rules concentration camps which are very
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important as we talk about the Holocaust
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later on but concentration camps were
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also used very early on uh also against
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political opponents communist and also
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individuals that oppose the Nazi
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regime and last but not
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least Nazi courts and judges so
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essentially the Nazis were able to use
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the system in order to reinforce their
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own
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ideas let's take a look at our topic
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sentence the Nazis created a state
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sponsored system of fear that relied on
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professional branches of the government
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and everyday citizens to suppress the
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people's voice of
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opposition Focus Point number three how
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did the Nazis use culture and the mass
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media to control the people so we are
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essentially going to talk about three
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different areas there were many of
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course others that um are mentioned in
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our textbook and you can certainly take
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a look at them
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but um we're going to begin with
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culture the Nazis had a very clear
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vision of what it meant to be German and
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what it meant to be German was very
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narrowly
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defined this included looking at
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art
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books
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films and the Nazi regime was very
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effective in that it would essentially
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tell the people what was acess um
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acceptable and what was not Hitler in
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particular was very interested in art
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and wanted to develop a German art which
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the people could be proud of in fact he
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had plans to build a national museum in
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which it was filled with all the great
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Treasures of Europe that represent the
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German ideas and that all the art would
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which came from degenerate groups would
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be
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destroyed the Nazis in particular were
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very effective at use in film this is a
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poster of one of the most famous
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propaganda films of the day Triumph of
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the
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wills um Germans uh reinforced ideas
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such as music such as Beethoven as being
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a good example of music that you should
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listen to and last but not least as you
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may know the Nazis were well known for
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uh suppressing free voices by um such
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ideas as book burnings authors that were
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Jewish or
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undesirable leftwing um groups their
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books were banned burned and a new crop
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of books would arrive which were
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essentially propaganda materials that
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were created by the Nazi
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regime
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topic
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sentence the Nazis sought to influence
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all forms of popular culture including
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art music film and
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books art forms that were foreign or
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undesirable were
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banned often when the Nazis used the
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word foreign this was a code word
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meaning
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Jewish the Nazis sought to create many
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forms of mass
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media propaganda could appear in forms
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of
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posters um in the
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streets official
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newspapers uh the man who is pictured
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here is um Geral who was to propaganda
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Minister that helped to craft a message
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for the German people and one of the
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things that Geral came up with is what
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was known as The People's receiver in
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which people would receive a free radio
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for their homes and people were very
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excited to receive a free
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radio uh who wouldn't like a free radio
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however when the people brought the
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radio home and turned it on what they
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would receive is essentially messages
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from the Nazi government Direct to the
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people's homes reinforcing the ideas
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that the Nazi government wanted the
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people to
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hear so this is a a very interesting and
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very deliberate um plan that the Nazis
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had to influence people's
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minds topic
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sentence the Nazis could Influence
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People by using State controlled mass
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media to argue argue for the Nazi
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cause let's take a look at the last
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topic for number
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three
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sport in
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1936 the Olympics were held in Berlin
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Germany now you may remember in previous
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years such as year nine we studied about
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the African-American sports star Jesse
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Owens who won three gold medals at the
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olymp
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ipcs but in the context of this
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particular story what's very important
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is is that the Olympics were a huge
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propaganda machine for the Nazis to show
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the world that they had risen From the
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Ashes of the Great Depression that they
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had recovered from World War I and that
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they were now the most powerful nation
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in the world and the na created a huge
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Stadium they had um athletes from all
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over Germany come and
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compete and it was their opportunity to
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show that Germany was once again uh at
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the
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top topic
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sentence the 1936 Olympics held in
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Berlin was a public spectacle for the
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world to witness how far Germany had
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recovered from the first World War and
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Great
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Depression one other thing that I will
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mention is that Sports were also a very
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important vehicle to attract young
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people to the Nazi cause when we get to
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uh sub uh the fourth Topic in a later
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film we'll talk a little bit more about
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the Hitler Youth um groups and how sport
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was integrated into that Nazi message
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but that will come a little
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later Focus Point number
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four why did the Nazis persecute many
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groups in German
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Society so in order to better understand
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this we have to create sort of a
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foundation of theory and this theory was
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known as the master race and that is is
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that Germans or people of Germanic
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Heritage often known as
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Aryans they were
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Superior and they were pseudo scientists
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that would travel throughout Germany and
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they would do things such as measure a
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person's nose look at their uh eye color
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look at their hair look at their skin
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and they would be able to make
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predictions on what percentage of this
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person is Aryan and what percentage is
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something else something undesirable and
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essentially they would use this fake
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science in order to show how German
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people Aryan people were better than
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other people and essentially
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reinforce their
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superiority by rooting it in science
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they were able to essentially justify
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why they wanted to
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eliminate persecute and get rid of those
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groups that they did not
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like topic sentence the master race
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theory was based on fake scientific
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studies that proved that Aryans were
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smarter stronger and more moral than
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other
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races the biggest enemy according to the
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Nazis were the
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Jews Jews had lived in German Society
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for centuries in many cases they were
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fully um a part of the
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community and it is not to say that the
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Nazis created
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anti-Semitism because anti-Semitism of
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course has existed for centuries before
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but this is the root
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of the German belief system that the
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Jews were the
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problem and shortly after the Nazis come
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to power they put into effect many
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measures laws and policies in order to
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get rid of Jews and blame Jews for
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Germans
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problems the book which is displayed
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Here is known as the poisonous mushroom
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and this is a children's
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book this is a book that would
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essentially say that the Jews were like
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a poisonous mushroom that if you eat one
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it will kill you or in other words they
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cannot be
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trusted it's important to understand
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that the
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Germans
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persecuted Jews directly but they also
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did great damage by rein forcing these
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ideas to a new generation especially the
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young for them to also hate Jews in the
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future the culmination of these events
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took place uh in
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1938 in what is often known as Crystal
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knock the night of broken glass in
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which Jewish homes businesses synagogues
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were essentially destroyed and
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any pretending about the fact that they
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were not persecuting Jews went out the
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window and at that point German Society
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was openly at war with Jewish
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citizens let's take a look at our topic
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sentence Jews were seen as the main
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enemy of the new Nazi Germany the
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nerenberg laws in 1935 St
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Jews of their citizenship property and
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position in society by 1938 38 Crystal
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KN attacks on Jews was openly
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tolerated one of the other groups that
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was also targeted by the Nazis were
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gypsies gypsies once again had lived in
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Germany for
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centuries their Origins were mainly that
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of nomad
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people um gypsies by the way is often a
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slang term uh there are two main groups
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of gypsies U the cinti and the
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Roma and like the Jews they were
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considered uh below human inferior to
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True
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Germans gypsies um suffered in many of
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the same ways that the Jews did um let's
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take a look at our topic
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sentence gypsies were also seen as
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undesirables they also face loss of
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citizenship imprisonment and
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death one last group that I would like
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to highlight is the
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handicapped handicapped people were
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persecuted because they were viewed by
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the government as a strain on the people
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and that if you were a handicapp person
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then you could not contribute to German
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society and thus you should be
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eliminated and one of the things that
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was often done in addition to being
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murdered is that um people who suffered
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from physical handicaps or mental
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handicaps were
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sterilized uh many of these individuals
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were sterilized without their knowledge
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or they were sterilized against their
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will topic
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sentence handicap people were also seen
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as undesirable because they did not
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represent the ideal German and they were
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a burden on society some mentally
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handicapped people were forcibly
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sterilized
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now let's take a look at our last Focus
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point for this
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unit was Nazi Germany a tarian state and
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as the textbook points out there are
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many levels to look at as we relate to
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tarian
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system were the Nazis able to control
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religion mass media Society economy and
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political system and in most cases this
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is true so as we look at German society
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and as you climb these
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steps as the Nazis became more powerful
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took over the government and certainly
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by
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1938 it can be stated that it was very
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clear that it was a totalitarian state
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in which the views of the
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fur were the views of the country that
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the individual and the state were
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essentially
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one topic
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sentence the Nazi regime can be seen as
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a totalitarian state because it
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controlled most of all aspects of
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people's
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lives this can be supported by examining
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how much tolerance and freedom people
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had to criticize the
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state
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so for our main points for number three
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let's go through the main ideas behind
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each of the different Focus
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points there was opposition to the rise
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of the Nazi party however opposition
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groups failed to work together to fight
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against a common threat and thus
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each uh each were vulnerable I'll have
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to look at that sentence again it's a
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little wonky
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sorry number
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two the Nazis created a state sponsored
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system of fear that relied on
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professional branches of government and
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everyday citizens to suppress the
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people's voice of
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opposition the Nazi regime sought to
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control all aspects of people's lives
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whether it was through ART mass media
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and
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sports and then
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finally minority
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and defenseless populations were subject
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to arrest and imprisonment
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sterilization and death by the Nazi
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regime because they did not fit into the
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mold of an ideal
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German when we get to our fourth video
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we'll talk more about what is referred
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to as the final
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solution the Nazis plan to eliminate
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these individuals
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so thank you very much everyone I hope
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you're enjoying this video series and as
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a reminder please use your textbook with
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the videos and the presentations which
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are on our Google Classroom to go
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through the different points and
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reinforce one back to the
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other thanks again
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