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Judaica Mid-term
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01/18/2009

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Treaty of Versailles
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was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers
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National Socialist German Workers Party
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: a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) before the name was changed in 1920.
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Beer Hall Putsch
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was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of Thursday, November 8 and the early afternoon of Friday, November 9, 1923, when the Nazi party's leader Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of the Kampfbund, unsuccessfully tried to gain power in Munich, Bavaria, and Germany
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Mein Kampf
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My Struggle or My Battle, is a book dictated by Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's National Socialist political ideology.
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SA
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: functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. They played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s.
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Reichstag
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Germany’s congress
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Von Hindenberg
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Germany’s Nazi President at time of election; appointed Hitler chancellor
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Reichstag Fire
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27, 1933 fire to Reichstag hall, Hitler blames the communists; Hitler receiver emergency control of nation
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Fire Decrees
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Hitler’s laws for safety
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Enabling Act
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sets aside constitution for 4 years, no individual rights
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Schutzhaft
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law enabling people to be arrested without a cause; abolishes federal system; centralizes gov’t
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Weltanschaung
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refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs through which an individual interprets the world and interacts with it. The German word is also in wide use in English, as well as the translated form world outlook or world view.
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Dolschstoss
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stab in the back; ideology that in treaty of Versailles Jews and communists screwed Germans over
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Lebensraum
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living space; we must expand our land to the east
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Social Darwinism
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survival of the fittest; races have homeland; Jews are parasitic
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Working Toward the Fuhrer
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rival fiefdoms of the Nazi state fought each other and attempted to carry out Hitler's vaguely worded wishes and dimly defined orders by "Working Towards the Fuehrer".
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Cumulative Radicalization
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speeches were vague in interpretation, therefore response was radical in hopes to suck up to Hitler
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Legislative anti-Semitism
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laws written against Jews
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Law for Restoration of the Civil Service
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This law re-established a "national" civil service and allowed tenured civil servants to be dismissed. Further, civil
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