hitler + nazi germany

• Anti-nazi groups:

  • Edelweiss Pirates - sang insulting parodies of Hitler youth anthems + beat up members
  • The Meuten - group of young people that politically opposed the Nazis + wanted to destroy all Nazi control
  • The Swing Kids - young teenagers that listened to music that was regarded as 'un-German'
• Anti-nazi groups:

  • The Red Orchestra - group of mainly communists who wanted to help Jews
  • The White Rose - students at Munich university that published anti-nazi leaflets. Leaders executed in 1943
• The German Christian Church was a nazi-approved Protestant group. German Christians wore Nazi-style uniforms.
• Treatment of Jews:

  • Beaten upon streets + had to sit on separate park benches
  • All Jewish businesses marked with juden
  • Banned from state schools and cinemas
  • Chemists did not sell to Jews
  • Forced out of jobs (civil service + teaching)
  • Marked with the Star of David
• Nazi economic policies:

  • Be self sufficient and no longer rely on trade with other countries
  • Major employment programmes to reduce unemployment + strengthen Germany
  • Large scale military creating jobs in iron, steel, aviation + shipbuilding
• The Nuremberg rallies:

  • Held annually from 1923, glorified war and the military
  • Showed Germany's military strength
  • Participants would wear military dress
  • Marches with soldiers with flags + torchlights
  • Speeches by Hitler and other Nazi leaders
  • Showed their power across Germany and abroad
• Youth movements in Nazi Germany:

  • Hitler youth created to turn boys into young adults that fully believed in Nazi ideology
  • Hitler youth included military skills, survival, marching and fighting
  • 2 million members
• Youth movements for girls:

  • League of German maidens educated them in motherhood and being a good wife
  • Bear as many children as possible and be awarded the mothers cross if they had 8 children
• Education in Nazi Germany:

  • Anti-Nazi and Jewish teachers removed
  • All children experienced a nazi-approved education
  • History taught to glorify Germany, textbooks emphasised militarism
  • Biology taught that pure Germans were superior
  • Regular exercise was a key part
  • Specialist schools created to train future German leaders