Essential Question: Did Hitler bring more harm than good?
Review: Was the rise of Hitler inevitable?
1. Complete worksheet on the Rise of Hitler (1929-1933)
Understanding goals:
1. How did Hitler consolidate his power after 1933?
- Elimination of Communists through Reichstag Fire
- Suspension of democracy through Enabling Act
- Extermination of opponents through Night of Long Knives
- Winning support of military through Autarky
- Economic self-sufficiency through militarisation & rearmament
- Social control through education, propaganda & police state
- Facist discrimination through anti-Semitism, concentration camps & Holocaust
1. Watch Road to Treblinka/Schlinder's List
2. Who is to be blamed?