On 14 July 1933, less than 6 months after Hitler assumed power, Germany was officially proclaimed a one-party state. The Nazi party, which in the 1924 elections received just 3% of the vote, was now the only legally mandated political party in the country - forbidding the formation of any other party. Racial and antisemitic principles stood at the core of the Nazi party's ideology. This anti-Jewish policy functioned on 2 primary levels: (1) Legal measures to expel Jews from society and strip the

Hitler's confrontational ideology rattled Europe. It's one thing to want more territory and influence—and another thing to take it by force, regardless of the consequences. Revisit the events of World War II and discover the cracks in Hitler's ideology in How the Nazis Lost the War, a new documentary streaming on Wondrium. http://ow.ly/2Anz50I8zAL | The Great Courses