Nazism and the Rise of Hitler - Chapter III

He refused to eat at home for the following nine years, fearing that his mother might poison him.

His father committed suicide by shooting himself in his office.

He was a Nazi and a supporter of Adolf Hitler.

<p>Hitler was determined to make Germany a mighty power and to conquer all of Europe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He feared that the Allies would do to them what they did to the crippled and Jews.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hitler, Goebbels, and his entire family committed suicide collectively in his Berlin bunker in April. An International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals for Crimes against Peace, for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Germany waged a genocidal war, resulting in the mass murder of selected groups of innocent civilians of Europe. The number of people killed included 6 million Jews, 200,000 Gypsies, 1 million Polish civilians, 70,000 Germans who were considered mentally and physically disabled, besides innumerable political opponents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced only eleven leading Nazis to death, and many others were imprisoned for life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Allies did not want to be as harsh on defeated Germany as they had been after the First World War. They felt that the rise of Nazi Germany could be partly traced back to the German experience at the end of the First World War.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Germany, a powerful empire, fought the First World War alongside the Austrian empire and against the Allies. The war eventually drained Germany, leading to the birth of the Weimar Republic.</p> Signup and view all the answers