26. Changing Living Standards 1933-39 Flashcards
What was unique about the change of living standards between 1933-39 that did not change in any other set of years?
There was a divide between of conformist “pure Germans” and that of people the Nazis saw as “undesirable.”
On 18th August 1939, what did all doctors, nurses and midwives had to do?
They had to report all children under the age of three years of age that showed signs of physical or mental disability.
What was the point of the T4 campaign?
To get rid of disabled people under the age of 17.
How many people died under the T4 programme?
70,000
What happened to families who were asocial?
They were sent for about a year to be reeducated at Hahsude.
Give one way as to how living standards were good for conformists?
Unemployment dropped.
What were the wages like?
Wages were regulated so people did not have too much spending money because industry was geared to war production, not consumables.
What was the Strength Through Joy programme?
It was a programme where there was provision of loans, medical care and extra food and vitamins for suitable mother and a chance to win a Volkswagen.
What was the Volkswagen branded as?
People’s car.
What kind of society were the Nazis were trying to build?
Where social welfare not needed.
Why did their dream of social welfare not succeed?
Because of the economic conditions.
What year was National Socialist People’s Welfare set up?
1933
How did the NSV operate?
They were divided into those who “deserved” help and those who did not.
What were the NSV aims?
To create a healthy nation, not to care for the welfare of individual.
What did the NSV’s control?
The Mother and Child Programmes and the creches and kindergartens, housing
