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1919 - German Workers' Party (later, Nazi Party) established.

1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes Party Chairman.

1921-1922 - Period of growth in support for the Nazi's due to the appeal to young unemployed men who were suffering due to the economic crisis under the Weimar Republic.

1922 - Inspired by the National Fascist Party in Italy, Hitler introduced the straight-armed salute, which became synonymous with the Nazi party, and is still used by Neo-Nazi and Fascist groups today.

1923 - The Nazi party carried out an unsuccessful coup against the government which resulted in imprisonment for Hitler. Whilst incarcerated Hitler wrote his manifesto "Mein Kampf" in which he outlined his ideology on a true "Aryan" race and expressed his violent anti-semitism.

The Nazis had a plan for German Society which valued same-ness and not diversity. Their goal was to make Germany an exclusively "Aryan" national, and they had an 'ideal' image of a German citizen - strong and healthy, fair-skinned, blond haired and blue-eyed. Propaganda films were made to show the model of the 'perfect' young German men and women. Nazi ideology stated that not all humans were equal, some were even considered "untermenschen" (sub-human) if they did not fit the ideal. The Nazis hated anyone that was 'different', including those who fitted the Aryan concept of normality but had different views or thoughts which did not adhere to Nazi ideology.

Jews

Jews were singled out for systematic persecution and deliberate mass extermination. The Nazis used historical anti-Semitism which had existed since ancient times to justify the removal of human rights from Jewish people. Ultimately, this led to the application of an industrial method to the extermination of 6 million European Jews.

During the Holocaust, ghettos were a central step in the Nazi process of control, dehumanization, and mass murder of the Jews.

Nazi Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and as a result, the UK and other Western European countries declared war. Thus, the Second World War began - but the initial fighting in Poland lasted only a few weeks, as Poland's old-fashioned army was quickly defeated by the modern, advanced German forces.

After the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 the Nazis decided to step up their policy against the Jews through the implementation of mass murder. By December 1941 over 1.5 million Jews had been killed by beatings, starvation or mass shootings.

Camps were established as soon as the Nazi's came to power and those who were considered to be opponents of the regime were imprisoned and treated with great brutality.

The first concentration camp was established at Dachau on 23rd March 1933. As the Nazis captured more territory, the camp system was greatly expanded and used as a tool in the creation of a single-race state. In total, the Nazis created approximately 20,000 camps - including transit, forced labour, and extermination camps throughout German-occupied countries.

Resistance

Jews responded to the ghetto restrictions with a variety of resistance efforts. Ghetto residents frequently engaged in so-called illegal activities, such as smuggling food, medicine, weapons or intelligence across the ghetto walls, often without the knowledge or approval of the Jewish councils.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The most well-known attempt by Jews to resist the Nazi regime took place in the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943 and lasted for almost a month.

This was organised by the Z.O.B (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa: Jewish Fighting Organisation), and headed by 23 year old Mordecai Anielewicz with the aim of calling to Jewish inhabitants to resist being rounded up into rail cars which would take them to the concentration camps.