10/14 Questions

• I feel like I understand a lot more about how Nazi Germany began its rise. With many factions and political parties fighting for supremacy, it's only natural that one or two would gain power, especially as aggressive as the Nazi Party was. As for how Hitler managed to use the system for his own will and personal gains, it's something that happens often-one look at a list of jokes about lawyers and you'll understand why.
• I think the biggest immediate parallel that I can think of is the issue regarding school shootings and gun control in America. While there still is a big debate on this issue constantly raging, it only seems to be brought to light when a school shooting occurs, and even then, our attention as a nation is quickly brought to something else because we're almost desensitized to these occurances. While it may not be a perfect parallel, these racist slogans slowly must have become white noise to the German people.
  
  Another immediate parallel is the American treatment of LGBTQ people, although the attitudes towards this community is slowly starting to change in their favor. It wasn't very long ago that people commonly used words like "Gay" or "faggot" in a derogatory form and it was, while somewhat offensive, still mostly accepted by society. However, now that we've seen the horrors of such racism and have such an extensive record of this, political groups such as the Westboro Baptist Church do not have nearly the effect as the Nazi party in the 1930s.
• I think that a lot of people chose to ignore it for multiple reasons. One was the reason that I mentioned above when I was talking about gun control. Another could have been their desire to see Germany viewed as the power it once was. A third reason was because they were just so desperate for something good to happen to them that when things started turning around economically once the NSDAP gained their power, they were so relieved and considered the ends outweighed by the means.

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The following is the list of events and people mentioned in the questions, as well as a brief description of how it fit into the Weimar Republic. Completed with Dalton Stemberg.

• Black Friday
• Black Friday is the German equivalent to Black Tuesday, the day when the New York Stock Exchange crashed. It occurred on Friday 13, 1927,  and it once again plunged Germany into a deep depression.
• Paul Hindenberg
• Paul von Hindenburg is the man who named Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany in 1933.
• Enabling Laws
• These laws were passed by Nazi Germany which made it legal to discriminate, and eventually, cause violence to the Jews living in the country.
• Unemployment
• Much like the rest of the world, Germany had a large portion of its working class unemployed at the height of the Great Depression. At its peak in 1932, Germany had over six million of its population unemployed.
• 1936 Olympic Games
• These Olympics were hosted in Berlin, and they provided a much-needed credibility boost to the Nazi party due to its massive amount of victory in events, and its organization.
• Autobahn
• This was the German equivalent to the modern US Highway. These projects were started under Hitler's reign as an effort to give more jobs to the German people.
• Nuremberg Laws
• These laws, basically the Enabling Laws, are laws put in place that severely limited Jewish rights in Germany.
• Kristallnacht
• Night of November 9/10, 1938. Nazis destroyed/set fire to a huge amount of Jewish establishments and shops.
• Brown Shirts
• The people who committed the crimes on Kristallnacht. Members of the Nazi party. More specifically, these people made up Hitler's Nazi militia that caused a lot of violence between them and the Communist party in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
• Mein Kampf
• Book written by Hitler when he was imprisoned in the 1920s. Literally translates to "My Struggle." Basically his manifesto.
• Mass Exodus
• Massive amount of emigration from Germany in the mid-30s. 
• Concentration Camps
• Camps built under Hitler's reign, soon to be known for housing, and eventually killing Jews during the Holocaust.
• Anschluss
• Joining between Germany and Austria in 1938.