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Invasion of France and Belgium

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1940

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

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1939

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Operation Barbarossa

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1941

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Support during war

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  • Early victories particularly France, Belgium and Poland- Hitler didn’t allow Speer to mobilise women- Impact of propaganda
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Declining support in war

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  • Negative reaction to militarisation of Hitler Youth 1939- Around 250,000 German losses in Stalingrad- Soviet advances fear and threat of communism
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Stalingrad Losses

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-Around 250,000 German losses in Stalingrad

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Rations during the war

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  • Extra Christmas Rations for those in strenuous jobs| - Until 1944 rations were in excess of minimum calories
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Allied bombing

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  • 305,000 died- 2 million homes destroyed- 10,000’s killed in Hamburg 1943 and Dresden 1945
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Propaganda during war

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  • Sportpalast speech 1943- Film Kolberg 1945- Adventures of Baron Munchasen 1943
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Christian Opposition

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  • Bishop Galen attacked Aktion T4 euthanasia| - Dietrich Boehoeffer spoke out against regime in 1943 and executed in 1945
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Youthful Opposition

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  • Eldelweiss Pirates 2000 member 1939 little physical opposition not able to bring down regime. Leaders executed in 1944- White Rose Group formed 1942, student movement distribute anti-Nazi messages. Hans and Sophie Schroll beheaded 1943.
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Left Wing opposition

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  • Red Orchestra resistance cells there were 89 - 1941 in Berlin Robert Uhrig.- Rote Kappelle gained Nazi intellegence to Allies, distributed anti-Nazi leaflets
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Conservative Opposition

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1944 bomb plot - Assassinate Hitler, failed 22 Nazi’s were executed, Field Marshall Rommel was prevailed upon to commit suicide.

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Why did Opposition fail?

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  • Stopped by effective Nazi intelligence service and unable to convince the public- Bomb Plot involved 22 of 2000 Generals- Terror State, concentration camps- Acted too late only started when war turned
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Todt Military Preparations

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  • 1939 and 1941 military expenditure doubled| - 1941 55% of workforce involved in military production
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Todt Military Failure

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  • 1941 Britain produced twice as many aircraft- USSR produced 2600 more tanks- Only 52% of women were working in factories
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Military Inefficiencies

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-Office of 4 year plan, SS HIMMLER, Ministry of Economics FUNK, Ministry of Armaments TODT and Gaulitiers intervened with production.

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Actions of Speer

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  • Central Planning board economic organisation- Excluded military from planning- Concentration camp labour- Standardisation of armaments
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Speer Successes

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  • Ammunition rose by 97%- Tank production rose by 25%- Total arms rose by 59%- Productivity per worker increased by 60% in munitions- 1942 - 1944 war production trebled
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Ideology and war economy

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  • Ideological women not mobilised, reliance on badly treated foreign workers productivity 60-80%- Only 52% of women were working in factories- Hitler and WW1 link with what he thought lost them war
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SS and war economy

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  • SS preoccupied with racial policy bad treatment and plunder didn’t help with efficiency- 6.4 million foreign workers badly treated productivity levels 60-80% of German labour- Racial inferiority
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Foreign dependance and war economy

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  • 3 millions tons of oil from Romania biggest supplier- Total ores 13.4 million - 20.2 million tons from 1940-43- Stalins ‘Scorched Earth’ policy ruined idea war funding war
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Allied Involvement

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-1944 the Allies were dropping 650,000 bombs on factories and industrial citing in Germany on production lines they were dependant on

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War and the Jewish Problem

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  • Poland 1939 around 3 millions Jews Ghettoised- Warsaw ghetto created 1940- Einzatsgruppen 1939- 1942 Wannsee Conference creation of final solution- Racial war to cleanse new 3rd Reich- Babi Yar massacre 33,700, General Erberhard in 2 days
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Cumulative Radicalisation Holocaust

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1939 - Jewish Curfew1941 - Forced to wear yellow star1941 - Jews deported from Germany1942 - Wannsee Conference creation of final solution1942 - German Jews sent to Auschwitz 1945 - 6 Million Jews killed1945 - 2 of every 3 European Jew killed
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Hitler and the Holocaust

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1941 - Initiated deportation of German Jews1941 - Hitler said Jews should be ‘executed as partizans’1939 - Reichstag speech if war Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews

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Army Bill

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1913 - increase army to 870,000

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Navy Bill

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1900 - Increase fleet to 38 over next 20 years

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Zabern Affair

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1913 - Bethmann-Hollwegg vote of no confidence rejected 293:54

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Accident Insurance

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Sickness Insurance

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Imperial Insurance Code

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Banning Child Labour

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Voting age

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All men above 25 no property qualification

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Rohl

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Believed it was the personal rule of the Kaiser until WW1 true.

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Karl Leibnacht

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A figleaf for absolutism

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Weltpolitik

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Creation of an empire outside europe

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Flottenpolitik

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Creation of a fleet to control colonies

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Prussia quote

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Nothing but a vehicle for Prussian dominance

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Prussia

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17 votes need 14 to veto| Kaiser always King of Prussia, favouritism

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SPD

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1912 - 110 seats in Reichstag-SPD - Lost 38 to 43 overall HOTTENTOT UndemocraticCentre Party - Gained 5 to 105 overall

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Wehler

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Elites had power to manipulate Kaiser

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Elites

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Navy/Army laws, militaristic + business1902 tariff laws agrarian league1904 Herero, colonialism

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Unfair Prussian system

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1903 - SPD 23% of vote 7 seats| 1903 - DKP 16% of vote 212 seats

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Economic

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16% funded through tax, total cost of 8.4 million printed money, mark lost 75% of its value.

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Social

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Spanish flue 1918Food shortages 300,000 people died of starvationTurnip winter 1917Living standards reduced by 20-30%

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Political

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USPD 46 seats split from SPDBreaking Brugfriede Peace resolution 1917 passed Erzberger 212:126

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