revision germany

• Reasons the youth voted for Hitler

  • Promised to tear up Treaty of Versailles
  • Promised to make the country strong again
  • Youth wanted to be part of Germany's bright future
• Wealthy classes

  Voted for the Nazis
• Reasons why the wealthy classes voted for the Nazis

  • Promised strong leadership: make Germany powerful again
  • Let them run factories how they wanted •communists wanted to take over many business and the nazis opposed them
• Reasons the middle class voted for the Nazis


  • Feared law and order would break down during depression
  • Worried a communist takeover would ruin their way of life
  • Nazis promised to deal with problems decisively
  • SA fought communists
• reasons women voted for the nazis

  • Hitler said that family life, good morales and self discipline were important
  • agreed with Hitlers view that the weimar government were a bad influence in youth
• reasons that farmers voted for the nazis

  • weimar government offered little help
  • Nazis promised: higher prices in crops, higher status and better life
  • opposition to communists
• growth of the nazi part

  1928 only 800,000 votes

  1932 July nearly 14 million
• economic impacts on germany ftom the great depression

  • banks went bankrupt
  • millions lost their jobs
  • german factories where shut down
• political impact on germany from the great depression

  • people went to different parties that were often left wing communists or right wing nazis
  • 1930 election - communists went from 54 - 77, Nazis went from 12 - 107
• social impacts on germany from the great depression

  • many soon where living on the streets and they where angry at political leaders since they blamed the political leaders
• nazis and the farmers bad;

  • children had to find jobs in the city because of the law that prevented division of land
  • late 1930s Nazis controlled food prices
• nazis + farmers good:

  • taxes reduced
  • couldn't be kicked on their land if they got into debt
  • couldn't divide land between children meant that their land was secure in generations for a long time
• nazi policies children

  potential nazi future leaders - sent to napolas - special academies
• nazi policies children

  pe - boys - getting prepared for army

  domestic skills - girls - prepared to become mothers and wives
• nazi policies children

  taught that the aryan race was superior
• nazi policies children

  all subjects put forward nazi propaganda and beliefs
• nazi policies children

  teachers had to join the german teachers league

  teachers had to teach what the nazis wanted them to teach otherwise they would get sacked
• nazi policies children

  textbooks were rewritten to put nazi beliefs as facts
• 1922 - hitlers youth organisation founded
• 1933 - all other youth groups banned
• 1939 - membership made compulsory
• german boys

  went to hitler youth meetings several times a week after school and special weekend camps every month

  they learned how to match, fight with knives, figure a gun and keep fit

  activities were based on competition, struggle, heroism and leadership

  the nazis wanted to prepare the boys for their further roles as soldiers
• german girls

  emphasis was on how to keep fit, cook good meals and care for babies to prepare for motherhood

  they also went on tough marches and attended weekend camps
• joseph goebells was put in charge of nazi propaganda
• key messages of profanacja

  • blaming jews for germanys problems
  • criticising treaty of versailles
  • making germany great again
• in newspapers

  • only stories that showed the nazis doing good things were permitted
  • negative stories about germanys "enemies"
  • newspapers that didn't comply where shut down
• in films

  • all films had to show the nazis in a good way and their enemies in a bad way
  • goebells had to approve all storylines
• books

  • forced to write things that praised hitler and nazis
• radio

  • all radios statins under nazi control - broadcast nazis ideas
  • loud speakers places everywhere to air broadcasts