Life in nazi germany

• strength through joy

  The idea that if workers worked hard enough they could be rewarded with gifts like concerts and holidays at a low price

  To increase productivity and make workers happy
• National service labour

  Provided work for unemployment but only for aryan men

  Did public work like building olympic stadium 1936

  Made compulsory in 1935

  Worked long hours
• ideal Women in nazi Germany

  Natural

  No make up

  Sturdy build

  Fair haired and blue eyes ( aryan )

  Non drinker and smoker

  To have many children

  Believe in children, kitchen, church
• policies towards women

  Women should give up work especially when married, many jobs held by women were replaced by men

  1933-1936 unemployment rose due to women not working

  Marriage law of 1933 - all couples that got married were given a loan, only if women agreed to leave work and for every child they had 1/4 would be taken off so by 4 children debt was removed

  German women's enterprise - gace women medals for a certain amount of children

  6 million women joined
• german womens enterprise - medals for amount of children

  4 - 5 bronze medal

  6 - 7 silver medal

  8+ gold medal

  10th child had to be called Adolf and Hitler as a God father
• Nazi youth organisations

  young german folk 10 -14

  Hitler youth 14 - 18

  young girls 10 - 14

  league of german maidens 14 - 18
• nazis believed children should grow up being patriotic and proud of there country supporting a strong and independent germany

  they believed boys should be strong and healthy in order to work for the economy and to fight in gemran forces

  whereas girls should be taught domestic skills like cooking and cleaning. also taught how to be a good mother and wife
• boys activities in youth

  shooting

  military drills

  signalling

  military parades
• activities both boys and girls do

  excursions

  learning about hitler

  racial superiority

  rallies / marches

  singing patriotic schools

  eugenics

  racial studies
• activities for girls 


  how to cook and clean

  needle work

  what to look for in a husband - pure german blood ( aryan )

  domestic studies
• schools in nazi germany

  state school until 14

  boys and girls separate

  followed set curriculum

  eugenics - taught how to improve german race
• master race 


  hitler believed germans were master race and superior to everyone
• Subjects

  Spent 15% of time on physical activities to build fit and healthy children
• propaganda

  lessons began and ended in a nazi salute

  from 1935 all educational books had to be approved by nazis

  all classes having nazi flags

  taught to glorify germany

  ideologies on minorities all deep rooted into education

  for example, stereotypes on the way jews look
• Hitler wanted people working and gaining an income as if people were dangerous politically if hungry and no income they could turn to another party

  also nazis believed that working class were a burden to society
• beauty of labour (kdf )

  Improver quality of work place like social areas like canteens and better environment to try and encourage more productivity

  however workers were expected to do this in their spare time and sometimes had to fund it themselves selves
• the volkswagen

  promoted car ownership

  hitler asked porche to design a car for family and created the volkswagen - peoples car

  people had to pay 5 marks of their wages towards the car a week

  by 1939 no one had paid enough so much of the money went to rearmament
• undesirables

  homosexuals were sent to concentration camps and subjected to medical experiments called “correct disorder “

  deaf, blind, epileptic and disabled babies and people were sterilised because of the law of preventing hereditary disorders offspring 1933
• Racial hierarchy

  Aryans

  Western europe

  Slavics

  Black, gypsies and roma

  Jews - blamed for all german problems
• race farms

  set up for aryan women and men to meet and have children
• undermenschen

  meant inferior people or sub humans used to describe slavs, romas, gypsies, black people and jews
• why were jews prosecuted

  blamed for all germanys problems

  suspiciousness of beliefs

  blamed for ww1 defeat and treaty of versallies as some politicians were jewish
• 1935 - Nuremberg law

  banned aryans form marrying jews

  mixed race children sterilised

  1933 - gypsies sent to concentration camps

  and by 1938 were banned from travelling ( their way of life )

  1939 - told they would be deported

  slavs consistently reminded not aryan
• why people let it happen - kyritalnacht

  fear of gestapo, ss and concentration camps

  anti semitism throughout europe and has been around for years

  nazi propaganda

  indoctrination
• attack on jewish businesses

  1933 - one day boycott of businesses

  painted yellow stars on doors and discouraged people form going inside

  1937 - jewish businesses taken over by aryans

  1938 - jews had to register all propriety

  1939 - all jewish banned from owning businesses
• professions and other aspects of life

  1933 - jewish actors, musicians banned. couldn't join army and banned form inheriting land

  1934 - banned from public places

  park benches yellow for jews

  1935 - Nuremberg law - cant be citizens, become subjects, cant vote, yellow star on clothes

  1936 - banned from being vets, teachers and nurses

  1938 - all passports labelled with a j israel and sarah added as middle names

  1939 - the reich law for protection and honour of german blood - cant marry a german citizen, no sexual relations with a german
• kristalnacht

  7th november 1938

  a polish jew shot a german at the german embassy in paris

  8/11 goebbles use this as a way to stir hatred towards jews

  people attacked synagogues in Hannover

  9/11 hitler and goebbles increased violence

  10/11 german citizens also attacking jews and their property - burning building and breaking windows
• impact of kristalnacht

  jews were forced to pay 1 bn marks in damages

  100 jews killed

  814 jewish shops destroyed

  171 homes destroyed

  191 synagogues destroyed
• who was responsible for krystalnacht

  german people, long disliking towards jews

  nazis - stirred up the hatred and caused all the damage