1. Important points

Jews:

  • Blamed for Treaty of Versailles, unemployment, communism
  • Hitler fist cautious about public humiliation; probably because of foreign reaction
  • Nuremberg Laws 1935: Jews didn’t have a German citizenship; couldn’t marry no-Jews
  • Kristallnacht 1938 first, real attack against Jews
  • Hilter eventually called for “Final Solution”: to exterminate entire Jewish race
  • During his rule 5.7 million Jews have been murdered; most of them in gas chambers

Gypsies:

  • Also often put into concentration camp
  • Accused of not being pure/Aryan

2. How this affected Hitler’s maintenance of power

  • Germans were willing to follow Hitler because they were angry about Treaty of Versailles, unemployment etc.; now they finally had someone to blame for it
  • That Hitler took actions against the “evil” showed Germans that he was confident to re-establish a great Germany