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[...] He also rearms the country by employing many hands (which allows him to lower unemployment and use it through his propaganda) and has built planes, ships, submarines, tanks . He also puts back on its feet an army of half a million soldiers. Finally, ultimate provocation, the Rhineland, a border region with France that had been demilitarized, is again occupied by the German army in 1936. One can indeed speak of a march to war since Hitler has clearly equipped himself with means to do so. Finally, Hitler's decisions at the end of the 1930s gradually shift Europe into a grave state of tension. [...]
[...] All media are also used to glorify the Nazi party and what the Germans now call Führer, the guide of Germany. In this capacity, cinema is also used through the productions of the director Leni Riefenstahl: it is she who realizes Triumph of the Will but also The Gods of the Stadium. Through this last film, the filmmaker takes advantage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics to film a triumphant Nazism, magnified German bodies, and a people adoring their guide . [...]
[...] Claiming clearly their anti-Semitism, the Nazis gradually pass laws that exclude Jews from German society. This is the case in particular in 1935 with the adoption of the Nuremberg Laws, which, for example, prohibit marriage between 'Aryans' and Jews or refuse German citizenship to Jews. This is clearly discriminatory legislation. This anti-Semitism escalates and culminates in a pogrom on the night of November known as Kristallnacht. Taking as a pretext the assassination of a German embassy secretary in Paris by a Jew, the German population unleashes itself against the Jews in the territory of Reich: humiliations, pillages of shops, synagogue fires, and then the arrest of men in the days that followed in concentration camps. [...]
[...] Once in power, the Nazi regime gradually eliminates the democratic system. The Nazis use the fire of the Reichstag in February 1933 as a pretext to accuse the communists and suspend liberties. Confident in their victory in the March 1933 legislative elections, they seized all political levers: the German Parliament voted, in particular, to grant Hitler full powers, allowing him to decide alone on laws. In March 1933, the Nazis opened the first concentration camp in Dachau, which aimed to imprison opponents (mainly communists) and those declared enemies of the regime. [...]
[...] The Nazi regime The Nazi party was born in 1920 in Germany. It is an extreme right-wing group that appears after the First World War, under the regime of the Weimar Republic. Fruit of the anger of the Germans following the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, the Nazi party, which Hitler commanded since 1921, made of the denunciation of dictate are commercial funds among its members. Germany, say the Nazis, was humiliated at Versailles (without having really lost on the battlefield), was amputated (Danzig to Poland, Alsace-Lorraine to France) and was weakened (Rhineland demilitarized, army strongly reduced). [...]
