How nazis changed the life of german people

• Nazi economic and social policy


  How it affected life in Nazi Germany
• 1933-39 - How the Nazis changed the lives of workers


  1. Tackled unemployment through public works programmes

  2. Men aged 18-25 joined the RAD (Reich Labour Service)

  3. All workers joined the DAF (German Labour Front)

  4. KDF (Strength through Joy) organisation set up to organise leisure time

  5. Conscription into the army and arms production created jobs

  6. Women and Jews sacked from jobs to create jobs for men

  7. Government took control of prices, wages, profits and imports
• Unemployment


  Reduced from 6 million to 0.5 million by 1938
• Many people supported Hitler and the Nazis as they made life better
• 1933-39 - How the Nazis changed the lives of women


  1. Women lost freedoms gained in Weimar period

  2. Expected to be housewives and mothers (3Ks: Kinder, Kuche, Kirche)

  3. Encouraged to have large families

  4. Offered marriage loans reduced for each child

  5. Discouraged from wearing make-up, smoking and dieting

  6. Lebensborns set up for women to 'donate' babies to the Führer
• 1933-9 - How the Nazis changed the lives of young people


  1. Hitler Youth Movements for indoctrination (marching, camping, weapons training, domestic training)

  2. New curriculum promoting Nazi ideology (Maths, History, Geography, Biology)

  3. New resources rewritten to remove German defeats and warn of Jews

  4. Separate timetables for boys (soldiers) and girls (mothers)

  5. Lots of PE lessons to keep everyone fit and healthy

  6. Teachers had to join the Nazi Teachers' Association

  7. Jewish pupils persecuted and had to leave German schools in 1938
• Membership of the Hitler Youth became compulsory in 1939 with about 7,500,000 children as members and 1,000,000 refusing
• Some young people chose to join anti-Nazi groups like the Swing Movement and the Eidelweiss Pirates