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The Destruction of Democracy — Hitler achieved the highest position in the cabinet of, ministries on 30 January 1933. Hitler now set out to dismantle the structures of democratic rule., The Fire Decree of 28 February 1933 suspended civic rights like freedom of speech, press and, assembly. Communists were hurriedly packed off to new established concentration camps. All, political parties were banned. Special surveillance and security forces were created to control, the people and rule with impunity., , Reconstruction: Economist Hjalmar Schacht was given the responsibility of economic recovery., This was to be done through a state funded work creation programme., , Hitler pulled out of the League of Nations in 1933, reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936 and, integrated Austria and Germany in 1938 under the slogan: One people, One empire, One leader., He then took Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia. Hitler had the unspoken support of England., Hitler did not stop here. He chose war as a way out of the Economic Crisis., , Resources were to be accumulated through expansion of territory. In September 1940 Germany, invaded Poland. This started a war with France and England. USA resisted involvement in the, war. But when Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombarded Pearl Harbour, the USA, entered the war. The war ended in 1945 with Hitler’s defeat and the US bombing of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki in Japan., , THE NAZI WORLD VIEW: According to Nazi ideology there was no equality between people, but, only racial hierarchy. The Nazis quickly began to implement their dream of creating an exclusive, racial community of pure Germans by physically eliminating all those who were considered, undesirable. They wanted a society of pure and healthy Nordic Aryans. Jews, gypsies, blacks,, Russian, Poles, even certain Germans and abnormal were considered undesirable., , The other aspect of Hitler’s ideology related to the geopolitical concept of Lebensraum, or living, space., , Jews were the worst sufferers in Nazi Germany. Hitler believed in pseudoscientific theories of, race which said that conversion was no solution to the Jewish problem. It had to be solved, through their total elimination., , From 1933-1938 — the Nazis terrorised, pauperised and segregated the Jews, compelling them, to leave the country., , The next phase, 1939-1945, aimed at concentrating them in certain areas and then killing them, in gas chambers in Poland., , The Racial Utopia: Genocide and war became two sides of the same coin. Occupied Poland was, divided. Poles were forced to leave their homes and properties behind to be occupied by ethnic, Germans brought in from occupied Europe., , YOUTH IN NAZI GERMANY: Hitler felt that a strong Nazi society could be established by, teaching Nazi ideology to children. All schools were given German teachers. Children were, divided into two groups — desirable and undesirable. Textbooks were rewritten, functions of