VCE History

Baldur von Schirach was head of the Hitler Youth movement in Nazi Germany. The young of Nazi Germany had a very important role to play in Hitler’s Germany, so Schirach, as the head of all youth movements, must have been held in the highest esteem by the Nazi leader.

The Jews of Lodz formed the second largest Jewish community in prewar Poland, after Warsaw.

About 160,000 Jews, more than a third of the city's population, were forced into a small area

The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Mass killings began in June 1941 with the shooting of Jewish civilians during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. At the end of 1941, the Germans began deporting Jews to killing centers in occupied Poland. By May 1945, about two out of every three Jews in Europe had been murdered.

The fortunes of the National Socialist German Workers Party changed with the Wall Street Crash in October 1929. Desperate for capital, the United States began to recall loans from Europe. One of the consequences of this was a rapid increase in unemployment. Germany, whose economy relied heavily on investment from the United States, suffered more than any other country in Europe.

Before the crash, 1.25 million people were unemployed in Germany

Hitler, who was considered a fool in 1928 when he predicted economic disaster