Chapter 8- social policy & practice

• how did education change ?

  • teachers had to join the German teachers league
  • every subject was nazi propaganda
  • textbooks were rewritten
  • PE became important to prepare boys for the army
  • uni courses changed
  • professors were handpicked
  • students had to train as soldiers
• what were the stages of creating Hitler youth ?

  1922- organisation founded

  1933- all other youth groups banned

  1939- membership made compulsory
• what was Hitler youth like for boys ?

  • special weekend camps
  • learned to fight, march etc.
  • activities based on competition
  • prepared for role of soldiers
• what was Hitler youth like for girls ?

  • how to keep fit, cook & take care of babies
  • attended weekend camps
• what was life like for women in Weimar Germany ?

  • rights & freedom
  • attended unis and became lawyers & doctors
  • birth rate fell
• what was life like for women in nazi germany ?

  • worried about decreasing birth rates
  • felt it was patriotic to stay home
  • should stick to the three K's (kinder, kirche und kuche)
• what was the Nazis policy towards women and work ?

  • many females were sacked
  • working was discouraged
• what was the Nazis policy towards women and behaviour ?

  • women were banned from smoking
  • slimming was discouraged
• what was the Nazis policy towards women and organisations ?

  must be a part of German womens league
• what was the Nazis policy towards women and sterilisation ?

  • forcible sterilisation if mother's deemed unfit
• what was the Nazis policy towards women and family ?

  • contraception and abortion were banned
  • mother's with 8 children received 'gold cross'
• what were the Nazis policy's impacts on women ?

  • prevented chosen career paths
  • birth rate increased
• what did Hitler promise to catholic church ?

  • he cooperated with the Catholic leader
  • agreed not to interfere with eachother
• what and how did Hitler break his promise with the Catholic church ?

  • harassed priests
  • Catholic youth groups closed down
  • persecution of Catholic priests
  • Catholic archbishop Galen openly criticised the Nazis and got out under house arrest
• describe Nazis and the protestent church

  • some wanted the church under nazi control
  • their leader became the first Reich bishop of German christians
  • some opposed Nazis and formed the confessional church
  • Nazi's arrested around 800 of them
  • confessional church was banned
• describe the persecution

  • classed some races as inferior
  • Hitler wanted to cleanse Germany of these people
  • Nazi's began to persecute
  • undesirables were those who had mental or physical disabilities
  • undesirables were forcibly sterilised
• what were shop policies against Jews ?

  • Jewish shops were marked
  • soldiers patrolled non Jewish shops
  • Jews were not allowed in non Jewish shops
• what were school policies against Jews ?

  • children forced out of schools
  • race studies were introduced
• what were work policies against Jews ?

  • Jewish lawyers, judges, teachers & doctors were sacked
• what were laws against Jews ?

  • banned marriages with non Jews
  • German citizenship removed
• what happened during kristall nacht ?

  • Jewish places were attacked
  • many Jews were killed
• what is kristall nacht also known as ?

  night if broken glass
• describe the final solution

  • Jews were rounded up and forced to live in ghettos
  • execution squads went into the countryside and killed jews
  • wannsee conference
  • 6 death camps were built
  • tried to wipe out Jewish race (holocaust)
  • those who were inferior were also placed in camps
• what was the wannsee conference ?

  mass murder of Jews
• describe Jewish resistance

  • some Jews fought back
  • resistance groups formed
  • Warsaw ghetto upheld resistance for 43 days
  • occasional resistance at death camps
• what was an example of resistance in death camps ?

  Treblinka- 15 guards were killed & 150 Jews escaped