Documents for Hitler's rise to power activities
On Hitler's Rise to Power:
Mein Kampf excerpt 1 Mein Kampf Excerpt 2 New York Times article
Questions:
1. Compare/contrast Hitler’s policies with those Roosevelt presented in his Four Freedoms speech.
2. Compare the New York Times article to the excerpt from Mein Kampf outlining Hitler’s views on Jewish people.
3. Why do you think the New York Times believed Hitler’s Anti-Semitism may have been just a political ploy?
4. How do Hitler’s own words on propaganda from the first Mien Kampf excerpt support or refute the assumptions made by the New York Times?
5. Why do you think so many people in Germany and other parts of Europe were willing to turn to Fascist movements, like the Nazi party under Hitler, as a solution to the Depression?
On Hitler's Economic Policies:
Overview and Historian's Perspectives BBC Infographic
Questions:
1. Hitler defines the Nazi plan as Socialist. In what way is the plan he presents Socialist?
2. Hitler was highly critical of Communists and Communism, though in America today, popular culture has a tendency to equate Communism and Socialism. In what ways were Hitler's economic policies non-Communist?
3. Compare and contrast Hitler's economic policies with the New Deal policies pursued in the United states?
4. In what ways was the success of Hitler's economic policy an illusion?
Mein Kampf excerpt 1 Mein Kampf Excerpt 2 New York Times article
Questions:
1. Compare/contrast Hitler’s policies with those Roosevelt presented in his Four Freedoms speech.
2. Compare the New York Times article to the excerpt from Mein Kampf outlining Hitler’s views on Jewish people.
3. Why do you think the New York Times believed Hitler’s Anti-Semitism may have been just a political ploy?
4. How do Hitler’s own words on propaganda from the first Mien Kampf excerpt support or refute the assumptions made by the New York Times?
5. Why do you think so many people in Germany and other parts of Europe were willing to turn to Fascist movements, like the Nazi party under Hitler, as a solution to the Depression?
On Hitler's Economic Policies:
Overview and Historian's Perspectives BBC Infographic
Questions:
1. Hitler defines the Nazi plan as Socialist. In what way is the plan he presents Socialist?
2. Hitler was highly critical of Communists and Communism, though in America today, popular culture has a tendency to equate Communism and Socialism. In what ways were Hitler's economic policies non-Communist?
3. Compare and contrast Hitler's economic policies with the New Deal policies pursued in the United states?
4. In what ways was the success of Hitler's economic policy an illusion?