This presentation covers the period 1936-1939. This is the series of events leading to the outbreak of World War II.

1. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 2
Prelude to War, 1936-1939

2. For Further Study
A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second
World War, 1961.
P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World
War in Europe, 1986.
David Gruenbaum, Hitler’s Social Revolution,
topical chapters as interested
Kershaw, vol II, pp.xxxv-230

3. Key points from Session 1
in the first year and a half Hitler consolidated his
dictatorship
the military received all it could wish for; first secretly,
then openly
despite continuing economic problems, employment and
living conditions improved more rapidly than any had
thought possible
the weakness of the democracies was shown by the
series of steps by which Hitler destroyed the Versailles
and Locarno settlements
Hitler was widely and wildly popular among the German
masses

4. Deutsche Arbeitsfront

5. Gestapo I.D.

6. Labor Department

7. Ancestor table
Text
Proof of Aryan Race

8. Reinhard Heydrich

11. The 1 pot program is so
None
need
hunger

14. anti-Semitic children’s book

17. Who would creative be,
must happy
be!

18. For the Führer---the children

19. BDM in the service of the Winter Help Program
everyone wear the
flower of the WHW
on Sunday 4 Nov
also You must Sacrifice

20. Sports Day
for the BDM

21. Chart for calculating degree of “Jewishness”
according to the Nuremberg Law, 1935

22. Germans!
Protect Yourself!
dont buy from Jews!

23. German Maiden
your calling
leader
in the Reich’s Labor Service

24. The 12-Year Reich
1933-1945
Session 2
Prelude to War, 1936-1939

25. For Further Study
A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second
World War, 1961.
P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World
War in Europe, 1986.
David Gruenbaum, Hitler’s Social Revolution,
topical chapters as interested
Kershaw, vol II, pp.xxxv-230

26. Key points from Session 1
in the first year and a half Hitler consolidated his
dictatorship
the military received all it could wish for; first secretly,
then openly
despite continuing economic problems, employment and
living conditions improved more rapidly than any had
thought possible
the weakness of the democracies was shown by the
series of steps by which Hitler destroyed the Versailles
and Locarno settlements
Hitler was widely and wildly popular among the German
masses

27. AGNA, 1935

30. Spirit and Beauty

32. the German greeting

33. Glaube und Schönheit
Belief and Beauty

36. Warning! This man wants you for the Lebensborn
program

37. You too
(can grow up to be an SS man)

39. Der Führer Eid
quot;Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, dass ich
dem Führer des deutchem Reiches und Völkes,
Adolf Hitler, dem Obersten Befehlshaber der
Deutschen Wehrmacht, übertrage unbedingten
Gehorsam, und als tapferer Soldat bereit sein will,
jederzeit für diesen Eid mein Leben einzusatzen.quot;
The Führer Oath
“I swear by God this sacred oath, I will render
unconditional obedience to the Führer of the
German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme
commander of the Wehrmacht, and, as a brave
soldier, I will be ready at any time to stake my life
for this oath.”
August 2, 1934
and thereafter

40. Jews
are not wanted
in
Behringersdorf

41. Italy’s second Abyssinian War

45. The Geneva
(League of Nations)
No

46. Recycle

48. Hitler’s Army adjutant,
Col. Friedrich Hoßbach

52. For Further Study
A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second
World War, 1961.
P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World
War in Europe, 1986.
David Gruenbaum, Hitler’s Social Revolution,
topical chapters as interested
Kershaw, vol II, pp.xxxv-230

53. Key points from Session 1
in the first year and a half Hitler consolidated his
dictatorship
the military received all it could wish for; first secretly,
then openly
despite continuing economic problems, employment and
living conditions improved more rapidly than any had
thought possible
the weakness of the democracies was shown by the
series of steps by which Hitler destroyed the Versailles
and Locarno settlements
Hitler was widely and wildly popular among the German
masses

57. Pictures of the German races 1
Nordic race
Westfalian race
Western race

58. Racial shame

61. Draft card

63. I collect for the WHW

66. You are nothing
Your race is everything!

67. to you
calls the
SS

74. Recruit practicing the Prussian Goosestep

75. “Protective custody”

77. For Further Study
A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second
World War, 1961.
P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World
War in Europe, 1986.
David Gruenbaum, Hitler’s Social Revolution,
topical chapters as interested
Kershaw, vol II, pp.xxxv-230

78. Key points from Session 1
in the first year and a half Hitler consolidated his
dictatorship
the military received all it could wish for; first secretly,
then openly
despite continuing economic problems, employment and
living conditions improved more rapidly than any had
thought possible
the weakness of the democracies was shown by the
series of steps by which Hitler destroyed the Versailles
and Locarno settlements
Hitler was widely and wildly popular among the German
masses

79. see what awaits us tomorrow,
if the Common Front disarms France

80. A united Volk
breaks the chains
(of the Versailles
diktat)

81. Spanish
Republican
poster

82. poster for the Saar Plebiscite
We died for you!
And you?

83. Dear Brother
Welcome
we are so
to the
glad to see you
Homeland
home again
Saar Homecoming
1935

85. The Fascist
Foreign Hordes
invade our
Territory
ANTIFASCISTS!
let us always be
sure to bury them
in our soil

86. The
Eagle
Special Edition
Condor Legion
at the Front!
German Volunteers fight for Spain

87. Picasso’s “Guernica”

88. Postcard
urging the
non-Aryan
and anti-Nazi
Austrians
to get out

89. Poster for the Anschluß Plebiscite

90. Anschluß Plebiscite Ballot

91. Austria free!
one Volk
one Reich
One Führer

92. Germany becomes Greater Germany
13 • March • 1938

93. Sudetenland

94. Sudetendeutsch pin

95. troops enter Sudetenland unopposed
5 October 1938

96. soldiers tear open the Polish border barrier
1 September 1939

97. Campaign in Poland

98. Air Victory over Poland

100. For Further Study
A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second
World War, 1961.
P.M.H. Bell, The Origins of the Second World
War in Europe, 1986.
David Gruenbaum, Hitler’s Social Revolution,
topical chapters as interested
Kershaw, vol II, pp.xxxv-230

101. Key points from Session 1
in the first year and a half Hitler consolidated his
dictatorship
the military received all it could wish for; first secretly,
then openly
despite continuing economic problems, employment and
living conditions improved more rapidly than any had
thought possible
the weakness of the democracies was shown by the
series of steps by which Hitler destroyed the Versailles
and Locarno settlements
Hitler was widely and wildly popular among the German
masses