Life in Nazi Germany

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What were some policies towards women
- women should not work, especially those who were married
- strongly encouraged marriage
- have at least four children
- encouraged to wear traditional clothes and not to wear makeup or have long hair
How were women encouraged to have lots of children
- offered 'The Mother's Cross'
4 children = bronze
6 children = silver
8 children = gold
- German Womans Enterprize led free classes on homemaking and bringing up children
How were women encouraged to get married
- the 'Law for the Encouragement of Marriage' paid a wife up to 1000 marks as a loan (but only if she stopped working). Every child they had, 25% of the loan is left off
How was racial purity when having children encouraged
Single women could have children with SS officers and their children would be supported by the state
Name the four Nazi youth organizations...
One for boys aged 10-14, one for girls aged 10-14
One for boys aged 14-18, one for girls aged 14-18
Boys aged 10-14 Young German Folk
girls aged 10-14 Young Girls
Boys aged 14-18 Hitler Youth
girls aged 14-18 League of German Maidens
What were the aims of Nazi youth organizations for girls, boys, and all youth
- boys should be strong and healthy in order to work for the German economy and fight in the German Forces
- girls should be strong and healthy in order to be strong wives and fertile mothers
- all children should be loyal supporters of the Nazi party and Proud Germans
Give examples of activities that the young German folk and Nazi youth participated in.
Military-style camps
Shooting
Military drills
Helping the fire brigade
Signaling
Give examples of activities that both boys and girls nazi youth organizations would do
Hiking and camping
Sports
Learn about Hitler
Rallies
Reporting people who make anti Nazi comments
Give examples of activities that the young girls and believe of German maidens would do
Needlework
Cooking
Learning about child care and mothers
Housework
How did the Nazi Party control teachers
- all teachers must join the 'Nazi Teachers' League' and swear oaths of Allegiance to Hitler. 97% of teachers joined
> the Nazi teachers League assured that the teachers were preaching Nazi ideals.
- children encouraged to report teachers who did not conform
What's percentage of teachers joined the Nazi teachers League (there in mind this was mandatory)
97%
How did the Nazis control the school environment and the school day
- lessons begin and End by hailing Hitler
- not see posters and flags displayed
- School Radio's broadcast political propaganda and speeches played in school halls
- education up to the age of 14 is mandatory
- separate schools for boys and girls
How did the Nazis control the school curriculum
- after 1935, All textbooks must be approved by the Nazi Party, and often hinted towards Nazi power and success
- Mein Kampf made compulsory reading
- time for PE doubled. 15% of time in total
- girls taught domestic skills, While Boys taught science and military skills
- race studies and eugenics introduced
What was the name of the idea that's created loyal Nazis from the school system
The thousand year Reich
Why were the unemployed a problem for the Nazis
They wasted resource
They were dangerous politically, as poor hungry citizens may uprise against the regime
How did the Nazi party reduce unemployment (4 titles)
- the national Labour Service (RAD)
- autobahns
- rearmament
- invisible unemployment
What statistic backs up the point that the Nazis successfully reduced unemployment from 1933 to 39
In 1933, six million Germans were unemployed
In 1939, only 0.5 million
What does the RAD stand for and what did they do? was it popular with workers?
National Labour Service
- unemployed men put to work building roads, drains, sports facilities and bridges ect
- initially voluntary, but in 1935, 6 months service made mandatory for 18-25 year olds
- no not popular as wages were very low and conditions were poor.
How did autobahns reduce unemployment and benefited the nazis. How many jobs were offered?
- offered 80,000 jobs
- the motorways offered quicker transportation for military equipment
How did rearmament reduce unemployment (think about all of the war)
Conscription to the army created in 1935 (directly against TOV), so lots of Weapons needed
- output for coal and chemical production doubled
- conscription reduces unemployment by one million
- creating the weapons offers lots of jobs
- growth in aircraft industry reduces unemployment by nearly 70,000
How did invisible unemployment reduce unemployment
- false statistics created to use as propaganda
> women, Jews and undesirables not included in unemployment figures
- part-time work counts as full-time
- hundreds of thousands of people were at concentration camps and jails, so not counted in the figures
- men serving their six month mandatory RAD work were not included either
Name three schemes led by the German labor front (RAD)
- Strength through Joy
- the beauty of labor
- the volkswagon scheme
What was the 'Strength through Joy' scheme
Provided affordable leisure opportunities for workers such as outings, tickets, sports events and concerts.
By 1936, 35 million Germans were members
How many Germans were members of the Strength through Joy scheme by 1936
35 million
What was the 'beauty of Labour' scheme
- improve facilities for workers providing canteens, lighting in the workplace, showers, swimming pools, toilets.
- nice idea initially for the workers, but they were not happy as they were expected to build the stuff on their own in their free time
What was the Volkswagen scheme
- workers paid 5 marks a week to go towards a Volkswagen Beetle.
- nobody actually received the car, all the money was channeled into the running the country
Give examples of how standard of living improved by 1939
- more jobs
- average wages rose by 20%, compared to 1933
- leisure activities from the Strength through Joy, and better working conditions from the beauty of labour
Give examples of how the standard of living was worsened by 1939
- invisible unemployment meant many were still unemployed
- cost of food increases with the rise in wages, so the rise in wages didn't really do anything
- workers have fewer rights and worked longer hours (due to the banning of trade unions)
How many marks was put towards the Volkswagen scheme every week
5 marks
What was the Nazi racial hierarchy in order from best to worst
1. Aryans
2. white Eastern Europeans (not persecuted)
3. Slavs (Eastern Europeans) (least persecuted, but still persecuted)
4. Gypsies, black people, homosexuals and other undesireables
5. Jews
What is eugenics
Selective breeding of humans - prioritized breeding aryan race
What was the term for 'below human'
Untermenschen
In 1933, the law for the prevention of hereditary diseased offspring was passed. What did it say? How many people did this affect by 1939?
Sterilization for mentally ill, physically deformed, death or blind is compulsory.
400,000 by 1939 steralized
Timeline of persecution of the Jews
April 1933 - SA order Boycott of Jewish-owned shops. Start of David painted on the shops. Jews also banned from working in government and those involved in teaching are sacked.
September 1933 - Jews have to provide aryan heritage to own land, so all Jewish families lost land
1934 - Jewish students band from exams, parks, swimming pools, sports and clubs refused entry to Jews
May 1935 - Jews band from joining the army
When were the neurumberg laws anounced
15th September 1935
Name two of the Nuremberg laws and what they state
1. The Reich law on citizenship
Name two of the Nuremberg laws
1. the Reich law on citizenship
> only people of German blood can be citizens
> Jews must become subjects, not citizens
> jews can't vote
> jews must wear star of david.
2. Reich law for the Protection of Blood and Honour
> no jew can marry a greman citizen
> no sexual relations between jews and germans
Timeline of Kristallnacht
7th Nov 1938 - polish jew enters German Embassy of Paris, and shoots a German official
8th Nov 1938 - Germans told to attack Jewish homes and shops. SA support
9-10th Nov 1938 - they do it, across the nation. around 100 jews die.
Consequences of Kristallnacht
- Goerbbels blames jews for the event, so jews are ordered to pay 1 billion marks to repair the damages
- 'Reich Office for Jewish Emigration' set up to expel Jews from the country, and ban jews from owning companys