Hitler: The Rise of Evil



Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Movie Questions

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Introduction

Over the next three days we will be watching the video, Hitler: The Rise of Evil. This film dramatically recreates Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. It portrays how he manipulated the people of Germany and used European Jews as the scapegoat for Germany’s problems. The film also provides insight into the mind of Hitler as it explains his childhood and how it influenced his Anti-Semitic views.

Vocabulary

The following vocabulary must be completed before we watch the movie so we can understand the events in the movie.

Treaty of Versailles Anti-Semitism

Scapegoat Nazi Party

Totalitarian Dictator Fascism

Great Depression Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)

Communism Vladimir Lenin

Joseph Stalin

1. The three quotations represent the main theme of the movie, Hitler: The Rise of Evil. How do the quotations symbolize what happened in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s?

2. How did Hitler’s relationship with his father influence his hatred?

3. Why did Hitler blame his mother’s death on her doctor?

4. Why did Hitler blame Jews for his failure in art school?

Key Idea: As a result of Hitler’s failure as an artist, he became poor and homeless as a teenager.

5. What did Hitler claim about Jews and their military service during WWI?

6. How did Hitler earn the “Iron Cross” during WWI? The “Iron Cross” is the most prestigious medal in the German Military.

7. Why did Hitler’s military service end during WWI?

8. What was Hitler’s reaction to the announcement that Germany had surrendered?

9. Why were Germans fighting one another after WWI?

10. What was Hitler’s job in the military after WWI?

Key Idea: Hitler gained popularity as a result of his speeches at the political club known as the German Workers Party beginning in 1919.

11. Who did Hitler label as “foreign invaders?”

12. Why did Hitler want General Ernst Rohm to join his political party?

13. Why did Hitler need the support of wealthy aristocrats?

Key Idea: Traditionally, the swastika was an ancient Indian symbol that meant “Good luck.”

Key Idea: In 1921, Hitler became the leader of the Nationalist Socialists Party, later called the Nazi Party.

14. Hitler attempted to incite a revolution to over throw the German Government in 1923. Why did he fail?

Key Idea: After the failed revolution, Hitler was arrested and put on trial for treason.

15. How did Hitler use his trial for treason to gain popularity?

16. What was Hitler’s sentence for being found guilty of treason?

17. While in prison, Hitler wrote his book called Mein Kampf or “My struggle.” How did he use this to gain popularity?

18. Why did Hitler supposedly resign from his political party?

Key Idea: Hitler was released from prison in December of 1924 after serving nine months.

19. After Hitler’s failed revolution in 1923, Germany instituted a democratic government that seemed to be working well. What huge event thrust Germany back into chaos in 1929?

20. What was the Reichstag?

21. Why did Hitler decide that he needed to obtain more political seats in the Reichstag with his Nazi Party?

22. Why did Hitler need to obtain German citizenship?

23. Why was Fritz Gerlish (journalist) being attacked by the Nazi Party?

24. Why did Hitler’s Nazi Party continuously gain more seats in the Reichstag?

25. Why was German President Hindenburg basically forced to make Hitler Chancellor of Germany?

26. On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag was set on fire, Hitler is believed to have been responsible. Why would he set the Reichstag on fire?

27. What did Hitler propose as a result of the burning of the Reichstag?

28. What did the Enabling Act do?

29. What happened to Fritz Gerlich?

30. Why did Hitler publish an “Enemy of the State” list?

Key Idea: As a result of the Enabling Act and the death of Reichstag President Hindenburg, Hitler’s master plan was complete as he became totalitarian dictator of Germany. Then the chaos throughout the world began…

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They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

-Pastor Martin Niemoller

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

-Sir Edmund Burke

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

-William Henry Beveridge

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