hitler and stalin video Flashcards
list all of the reasons why hitler became anti-semitic
possible grandfather was jewish, jewish nose, jews on board of art school that rejected him, jewish man got niece pregnant, blamed jews for wwi
eva braun
girl hitler was seeing, she was a receptionist and model for photography and was fascinated with hitler. attempted suicide, hitlers perfect girl “cute, cuddly, and naive”
ss and getsapo
hitlers secret police
purges
killing of many people opposed to a certain idea or person; stalin killed anywhere from 20-60 million citizens
trotsky
russian, lenin’s assitant who organized the red army, enemy of stalin
non-aggression pact
also called the molotov-ribentrop pact (named after foreign ministers of russia and germany) this pact made the countries allies and let stalin feel safe while hitler tried to avoid a 2 front war
operation barbarossa
broke the non-aggression pact as hitler tried to invade russian, russians retreated and burned all supplies, leaving the germans no choice but to surrender
describe stalin physically
UGLY; left arm shorter than the right arm, only 5’4’’, pot mark face, deformed and rigid body
where was hitler born
april 20, 1889 in a small town in austria. mom married a civil servant
what was hitler’s fault as a painter
he could not draw people, he only painted landscapes
how did hitler eliminate his competition
ss and gestapo killed them and virtually wiped them from history
who did hitler blame for the loss of WWI
jews +communists
what happened to people eliminated by stalin
virtually wiped from history
march 11, 1938 what did hitler do
he annexed austria
how did hitler eliminate his past
he burned down the austrian town he was from to assure no one would know of his jewish past, used the town as an artillery range
