Unit 5 - nazi economic, social and racial policy

• Compulsory for all men between ages 18-25 to serve in this for 6 months

  RAD
• not counting women and jews in employment statistics

  invisible unemployment
• scheme to earn money by promising cars

  Volkswagen scheme
• To avoid strikes, what did the Nazi ban

  trade unions
• also known as the German labour front


  DAF
• Through these policies the army grew form 100,000 in 1933 to over 1,400,000 by 1939


  conscription and rearmament
• rewards for workers, set up to replace trade unions

  KdF
• expectations for Nazi women

  . No make up

  . No smoking

  . Blonde hair

  . Work in home
• Received a medal for donating 12 children to Hitler

  Frau Muller
• programme to breed SS soldiers with young , single women


  lebensborn
• given a loan of 1000 marks and able to keep 25 % of it for every child they had 


  Law for the Encouragement of marriage
• on 12 august what was awarded to women with large families

  mothers cross medal
• to influence young people the Nazi adapted this

  school curriculum
• educators had to join this and 97% of them did

  Nazi teachers league
• compulsory clubs for young boys and girls


  The Hitler youth

  The league of German maidens
• Laws which took away jews property , citizenship , businesses


  Nuremburg laws , 1935
• The destruction of Jewish shops and homes and the burning of synagogues , November 1938

  Kristallnacht