The timeline of how the Nazi party gained power in Germany
A description of the main ideas of the Nazi party
An explanation of how these ideas impacted on people living in Germany
Jewish people: The approximately 500 000 Jews living in Germany (almost 0.77% of the population) soon began to feel the force of Nazi Antisemitism. The coming to power of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP ( National sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter partei), saw the beginning of a process in which Jews were excluded from German society, bullied and persecuted. Although it was slowed down at times for reasons of tactics and international politics, the aim of this process was the destruction of Jews.
Young People: The Nazi party positioned themselves as the party of youth against age, offering young people a role to play in the movement. The youth wing of the Nazi party, grew from 100,000 in 1932 to 3.5 million two years later. By 1939 membership was compulsory for boys, while girls had to join the sister organisation, the league of German maidens.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
