16) Nazi social policies(1933-39)

• Law for Re-Establishment of Professional Civil Service


  teachers dismissed for political unreliability or being Jewish
• The League of German Girls


  youth group preparing girls for future roles s housewives and mothers
• League of German Girls and Nazi Youth made compulsory


  1939
• women's places in university

  limited to 10%
• Jews places in university

  limited to 1.5%
• German Students League


  university students expected yo join and do 4 months of labour and 2 months working in SA concentration camps in order to do their degree
• Avoided being in the German Students League

  25% of university students
• Marriage loans


  Married couples would be given 1,000 marks if the wife gave up that job after she got married to an Aryan man
• Reich Mother's Service


  trained 'physically and mentally able mothers
• German Women's League


  established in 1933 - gave advice to women on cooking and healthy eating and being a mother
• medal system for family size


  bronze = 4 or 5 children

  silver = 6 or 7 children

  gold = 8 or more children
• trade unions banned


  May 1933
• German Labour Front (DAF)


  Set up to replace trade unions led by Robert Ley with the aim was to get workers to work harder without increasing pay.
• Strength through Joy (KdF)


  - set up to control leisure time of workers

  -operated two cruise liners to take workers on holidays

  - idea to make working hours more acceptable through improved working conditions
• estimate of holidays with Strength through joy

  1800
• The German Christians


  A German Protestant group, largely under Nazi control.

  600,000 members
• how many renounced church membership

  5%
• Confessional church


  protestant breakaway group separate from churches controlled by Nazis
• church schools abolished


  1939
• Concordat


  signed by the Pope in 1933 promising to not challenge Nazi policies