Slides for September 23 and 25

Adolf Hitler and the Racial State

You are hearing as an introduction the Horst Wessel Leid.

German text

Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
S. A. marschiert mit mutig-festem Schritt.
Kameraden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen,
Marschieren im Geist in unseren Reihen mit.

Die Straße frei den braunen Batallionen.
Die Straße frei dem Sturmabteilungsmann!
Es schaun aufs Hakenkreuz voll Hoffnung schon Millionen.
Der Tag für Freiheit und für Brot bricht an!

Zum letzten Mal wird nun Appell geblasen!
Zum Kampfe steh'n wir alle schon bereit!
Bald flattern Hitlerfahnen über Barrikaden.
Die Knechtschaft dauert nur noch kurze Zeit!

Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
SA marschiert mit ruhig-festem Schritt.
Kameraden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen,
Marschieren im Geist in unseren Reihen mit.

English translation

The flag high! The ranks tightly closed!
The SA marches with a brave, firm pace.
Comrades shot dead by the Red Front and Reaction March in spirit within our ranks.

(Make) The street free for the brown battalions;
(Make) The street free for the Stormtroopers!
Already millions are looking to the swastika, full of hope;
The day breaks for freedom and bread!

The call to arms sounds for the last time!
We are all prepared for the fight!
Soon Hitler-flags will flutter over all barricades.
Our servitude will not last much longer now!

The flag high! The ranks tightly closed!
The SA marches with a calm, firm pace.
Comrades shot dead by the Red Front and Reaction March in spirit within our ranks.

Adolf Hitler

 

The Reichstag Fire in 1933

Nazi voting propaganda from the March 1933 elections.


Ideals of racial purity in Nazi Germany


Biology, fertility, motherhood and race in Nazi Germany

 

Eliminating class differences through an embrace of the nation.


Anti-Semitic propaganda from Nazi Germany - poster reads, "The Jew, starter and prolonger of wars"

 

Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will from the 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally

Chart from the Nuremberg Laws determining who is a Jew and who is not.

 

Interior of a Berlin Synagogue after Kristallnacht

 

The partition of Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement

Neville Chamberlain waves the Munich Agreement before a crowd in England


Schloss Hartheim - a principle center for the T4 Program

Eugenics poster from The New People, a journal dedicated to the "science." The poster reads, "This genetically sick man costs the people's economy 60000 Marks during his lifetime. Comrades, this is your money."

"The Last Jew in Vinnitsa" - SS Einsatzguppe D and shootings in the field

Images of Nazi propaganda are from the German Propaganda Archive by Randall Bytwerk at Calvin College.

Text of the Horst Wessel Leid is from The Modern History Sourcebook.

The picture of the Reichstag Fire is from the University of San Diego.

The picture of the "Last Jew in Vinnitsa" is from World's Famous Photos

Map of deportations during the Holocaust is here.

All images are from Wikimedia Commons unless otherwise noted and are considered to be in the public domain and, if copyrighted, eligible for display under fair use criteria.