Tuesday, October 25, 2011

October 25

I went through a lecture today on the "Techniques of Dictatorship" which really also focused on the propaganda and indoctrination methods in Nazi Germany. We also looked at a short excerpt from "Triumph of the Will", Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film from the mid-1930s that depicts the days at a Nazi rally in Nuremberg. If you want to learn more about Leni Riefenstahl, please read her obituary from The Guardian in 2003. I am sending you information about the White Rose student group as well today. Please remember that you have your Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow (65 minutes of class time), and your Chapter 5 Test on Thursday (please see the study guide here). Also, you have your Nazi Germany Quiz on Friday, please see the study guide below.


This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:
  • anti-Semitism
  • Aryan
  • concentration camp
  • corporate state
  • Dachau
  • decree
  • deportation
  • dissent
  • elite
  • Enabling Act
  • ethnic
  • Führerprinzip
  • Gestapo
  • Hitler
  • Holocaust
  • indoctrination
  • inequality
  • inflation
  • judicial
  • jugend
  • Mein Kampf
  • Kristallnacht
  • nationalism
  • Nazi
  • Niemoller
  • Nuremberg
  • passive
  • plebiscites
  • pogrom
  • Reichstag
  • Ruhr
  • SA
  • SS
  • state
  • swastika
  • War Guilt Clause
  • White Rose


You wrote your Chapter 5-6 Test today. The results of this test will be added to your upcoming report card. We'll be looking at the Normandy invasion tomorrow.

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