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hello everyone this is Mr Trio and this
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is the second video for our depth
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studies B Germany 198 to
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1945 this video will focus on the second
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topic of why was Hitler able to dominate
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Germany by 1934
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one of the big ideas that I'd like you
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to think about is that when the Nazi
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party comes to begins to
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form right after World War I most people
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think of them as an extremist group uh a
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fringe group a group that's laughable
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but by
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1934 this is a group that is able to
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essentially take complete control of the
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government so this particular
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presentation focuses on how the Nazi
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party specifically under the leadership
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of Adolf Hitler goes from a small group
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of individuals to controlling the entire
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nation here are the four Focus points
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that we will look
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at what did the Nazi party stand for in
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the 1920s
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why did the Nazis have little success
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before
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1930 why was Hitler able to become
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Chancellor by
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1933 and how did Hitler consolidate his
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power in
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1933
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1934 so let's have a short timeline to
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talk about the Nazi party as I mentioned
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they are formed shortly after the first
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world war and many of the individuals
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are veterans of the
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war Adolf Hitler joins the party in
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199 and because of his unique skill
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specifically as a good speaker he really
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starts to take on a lot of
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responsibilities in the
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Party by
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1921 Adolf Hitler takes leadership of
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the Nazi
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party in 1921 also he establishes what
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is known as the SA or
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Stormtroopers they were commonly
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referred to on the street as brown
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shirts because that was the uniform that
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they wore essentially they are the
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muscle for the Nazi party and we'll see
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how the SAA is very effective in many
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different ways during the
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1920s and then finally in
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1923 the Nazi party unsuccessfully tries
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to seize power
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in the beer hall or M um Munich pushed
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sorry sometimes my German isn't the best
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it's Munich
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pushed so that's our short timeline to
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get us started so let's take a look at
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our big
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Ideas Nazi party is first and foremost a
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party that is based on hate and blaming
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others for why Germany was in the
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condition that it
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was the Nazi party comes to prominence
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mainly through the fact that Germany
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suffers from a poor economy and when
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people suffer in a poor economy they
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look to more extreme solutions to fix
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those
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problems we're going to talk about
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coalition government again and how
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coalition government in this concept
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essentially helps Hitler become
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Chancellor and then last but not least
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we're going to return to an idea from
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our first video which is about emergency
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Powers so what did the Nazi party stand
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for in the
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1920s it's important to note that what
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they believe in at the beginning doesn't
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change throughout their entire
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at the root of the Nazi party they were
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based on four main ideas the first being
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anti-Semitism hatred of the Jewish
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people they were strongly
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nationalistic and also extremely
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anti-communist last but not least and
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this gets into the blame part of their
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philosophy they hated the Treaty of
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versa
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and everything that it stood for and the
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Nazi party was able to get a lot of
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people to support it because they were
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able to show that they could get rid of
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different parts of the treaty to make
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Germany
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better let's look at a topic
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sentence the Nazi party was founded on
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four core beliefs
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anti-Semitism
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nationalism anti-communism and the
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hatred for the Treaty of versa
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these four core beliefs would not change
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throughout their years in
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power so let's take a look at the Munich
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pushed one thing that you may know is
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that Germany especially the Bavarian
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area of um Germany is well known for its
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beer houses and this is especially true
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in October when there is a lot of
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celebrations the Nazi party is
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essentially tries to take over the
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government by encouraging people that
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were gathering at a large beer
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hole and essentially the most important
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thing is is that they completely fail
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Hitler is arrested he's put into jail
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and essentially the Nazi party is
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banned the thing that is perhaps
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important about this early attempt
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is
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that this failed attempt really brought
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Hitler to German attention and because
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of the trial and his
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imprisonment uh essentially he became
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sort of a household
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name the other thing that was important
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about this particular failure is that it
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gave Hitler an opportunity to write his
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seminal book minec which means my
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struggle and essentially in this book he
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lays out what he believes
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anti-Semitism his hatred for the Treaty
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of Versailles and he makes an argument
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to the German people why he should be in
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charge the sale of this book in
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particular is one of the reasons why the
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Nazi party gains a lot of money in the
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early years in that the sale of the book
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is very popular so the book was a very
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very important part of how the Nazis
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were able to grow from a small group
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let's take a look at this topic
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sentence the failure of the Munich
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pushed showed the Nazi party that power
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could not be taken by force the Nazi
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party would retool their tactics to gain
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power through legal constitutional means
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Hitler's book mine C helped to spread
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the Nazi party message and fun Nazi
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events so in other
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words even though they weren't
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successful the Nazi party learn from
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this failure and how they could advance
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in the
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future the second Focus point is why did
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the Nazis have little success before
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1930 if you remember from our first
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video this was a time where Germany was
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getting loans from the United States
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factories were reopening and there was a
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lot of optimism in
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Germany between May
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1924 and may
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1928 the number of representatives of
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the Nazi party in the Reich stat
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actually begins to fall and there's a
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direct correlation between this and how
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well the economy is doing let's take a
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look at our topic sentence the Nazi
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party was was still seen the Nazi party
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was still seen as a fringe political
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party in the 1920s the improving commy
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economy helped to keep the extremist and
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their populist message from taking hold
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with German voters and when I say
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populist I mean a message which is
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directed towards common everyday
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people focus point number three why was
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Hitler able to become Chancellor by
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1933 first and foremost as we know the
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worldwide depression did not only affect
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the United States but essentially all
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the world when the economy started going
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down in Germany this helped to show that
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the Nazi party could possibly turn that
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around let's look at our topic sentence
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the worldwide depression brought
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unemployment homelessness and poverty to
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Germany these hardships helped to make
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the politics of
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Nazism and communism more appealing
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Nazis and Communists both won seats in
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the re stad during this time
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period now in
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1932 Germany holds a presidential
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election
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the man on the left is Paul vanon
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hunenberg he was an important hero of
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the first world war and his opponent in
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the presidential election is Adolf
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Hitler who was a Corporal during the
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first world war so essentially the
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people of Germany had a very clear
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decision Hindenberg represented a
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moderate view well-known individual
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Hitler represented an extremist perhaps
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a risky choice to have as
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president and when the election results
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came in it was Hindenberg that
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won but our story doesn't really end
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there let's look at our topic
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sentence the 1932 presidential election
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pitted Paul Von Hindenberg against Adolf
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Hitler the Nazi took took advantage of
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several modern inventions like the
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airplane and the radio to help spread
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his message in the end Hindenberg a war
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hero won the
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election but once again it's through
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this failure that Hitler actually begins
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to learn some things and one of the
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important uh things that we'll talk
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about a little bit later is that he
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understands how mass media through
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through the radio and later through film
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is an important way to get his message
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to the people the reference to the
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airplane is that Hitler had his own
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plane and would fly from City to City
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during this presidential election and
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was really able to Captivate the public
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attention by flying into town giving a
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speech and then flying
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off at the end of this presentation
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there's a short video which actually
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shows some of these campaign rallies
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that he makes I hope that you have a
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little time to take a look at some of
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that the
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last um issue for this Focus Point goes
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back to our discussion of coalition
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government essentially Hitler loses the
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presidential
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election but because the Nazis were
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growing in the r stad and they were the
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largest party in the
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rad they essentially had a way to stop
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government to block
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government so it was a man by the name
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of fron Bon Poppin who convinces
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president Hindenberg that he should
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appoint Hitler as
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Chancellor and through this
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method he could essentially get Hitler
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to then take responsibility for running
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of the government and he could help um
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rally members of the Nazi party um to
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get legislation passed get things done
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so on the surface it seems that this was
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a really good
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idea let's take a look at our topic
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sentence the Nazis had lost the election
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but still had the largest group of
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members in the Reich stad France Bon
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Poppin convinced Hindenberg to appoint
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Hitler Chancellor in order to form a
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stable Coalition the Nazis had now come
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to power through legal and
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constitutional means so in other words
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they learned early that they just
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couldn't take power through Force
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through something like the Munich pushed
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but instead worked hard and used the
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system of the viar government in order
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to get where they wanted to
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go last but not least Focus Point number
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four how did Hitler consolidate his
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powers in
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1933
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1934 one of the most important events is
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the fire that burns down the government
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building this
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fire POS possibly may have been started
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by the
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Nazis as a uh
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diversion but
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unfortunately at the time uh many people
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believed that the fire was started by a
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communist and it was because of this
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that the Nazis were able to convince the
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president Hindenberg that emergency
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measures had to be made in order to keep
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Germany safe let's take a look at our
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topic
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sentence the rad building burned down in
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February
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1933 a communist was blamed for the
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damage this gave proof that the
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Communists were a threat and Hitler
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persuaded Hindenberg to use emergency
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powers to suspend personal freedoms and
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increase police
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Powers one of the important aspects of
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this is what is known as the enabling
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act topic
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sentence members of the right stab were
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threatened to vote for the enabling Act
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of March of 1933 that allowed Hitler to
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form a legal
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dictatorship the Nazis now control the
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government when I say that they were
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threatened there are cases in which
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members of the right stab were actually
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uh threatened by force if they didn't
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vote for
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this when we look
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at when a democratic Nation becomes a
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dictatorship it's important to see how
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it's not something that happens
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immediately but it takes step by step
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incremental
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changes and I believe that these are
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sort of the five most important that
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take place between April 1933 and July
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of
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1933 that take the democratic vmar
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government to a
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dictatorship Nazis are put in Governor
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positions in each of the different
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states of Germany they begin to
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Institute anti-semitic laws that um um
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essentially fire all Jews who are
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working in government trade unions are
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abolished these are the groups that uh
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help protect workers rights um many of
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the Nazis did not like trade unions
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because they sounded and acted a little
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too communist in their
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mind last um two um all workers had to j
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a form I'm sorry all Factory workers and
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workers in Germany had to join the
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German labor front so essentially become
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official Nazi Party
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members and finally by July no other
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political party was allowed other than
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the Nazi
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party now Hitler had problems within his
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own party and one of the most
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interesting events is often referred to
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as the KN of the Long
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Knives you may remember Hitler forms
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this group called The sa early on and at
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the time it was uh LED essentially by a
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man named Ernest Rome Hitler was very
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paranoid that he was trying to take over
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the power and on an evening he was
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essentially arrested and then killed by
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the uh members of the Nazi party let's
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take a look at our topic sentence The
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Growing Power of the sa worried Hitler
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its leader Ernest room were was arrested
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and then shot other leaders of the sa
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were also murdered and complete TR
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control of this group was placed under
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Hitler so
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essentially Hitler takes control of the
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viar government and puts it under his
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command and then within his own
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organization elim minates key rivals in
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order for him to make the Nazi party
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even
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stronger by the time that President
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Hindenberg
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dies essentially Hitler is now
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completely in
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charge let's take a look at some main
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ideas for this
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section these are the ones that relate
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directly to our Focus
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points the Nazi party was formed after
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World War I and was based on hatred for
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unerman groups like Jews and the hatred
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for the Treaty of
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Versailles the rise and fall of the Nazi
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party was linked to how well the economy
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was
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performing though the Nazis lost the
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1932 presidential election he was named
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Chancellor in order to form a stable
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coalition
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government once Hitler was in office he
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made incremental changes in the
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government in order for him to take full
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control all right everyone thank you
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very much for watching our video and as
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I mentioned if you go to our Google
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Classroom site at the end of this
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particular presentation there is first a
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video of the 1932 presal
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election were fought in one single
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year and then this is a TED Talk which
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is very worth watching that helps to
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consolidate some of the ideas that we
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had how did Adolf Hitler a tyrant who
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orchestrated one of the largest
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genocides in all right so thanks so much
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for watching and let me know if you have
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any questions
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