War And Genocide Summary

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War & Genocide a Concise History: Review Pages 90-100 & Chapter 4.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime had and were a very well organized machine. Hitler used well thought out methods and implemented them as the push and pull back depending the popularity of society. He had many treaty’s and pacts that he made knowing full well he would eventually break to gain his ultimate plan of race and space. I find it interesting that a man with not real high intelligence, unpopular, and a politician made by chance was able to mastermind such a horrific event.
Hitler had many phases to his plan, including routinization that took place between 1934-1937, with June 1934 being the turning point for the Nazi’s. They were vicious and undermined laws, politics, policies, and anything else that
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Hitler wanted to overthrow the government and “rescue” the Sudetenland, near the border with Germany. This area had a large German population that claimed poor treatment. Delegates from the European powers were worried about potential war and agree to meet with German and Czech negotiators to seek an agreement of peace. In September 1938 the Munich Conference was held and agreed upon that the Sudetenland would go back to Germany. This led to some critics stating the Munich Conference was in some way responsible for World War II.
The Kristallnacht pogrom happened November 9-10 1938 and was the most dramatic attack on Jews in Germany. The Kristallnacht began due to a young Jewish man named Herschel Grynxzpan who shot and killed a German official. Herschel’s motive was due to his family being expelled from Germany and not allowed back into Poland leaving them and many others as a refugee. He was also angry at the treatment to date of the Jewish citizens. November 9th was chosen by Hitler because it was also a holy date in Nazi Germany. The holy date came from the attempted Putsch in 1923 that led to Hitler’s arrest that

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