Class Harmony

Question 1

Was class harmony a myth or a reality?

Answer 1

there was a gap between Nazi propaganda image and reality

Question 2

How did class harmony fail?

Answer 2

Volksgemeinschaft failed to breakdown social class division and an awareness of these division

Question 3

How did Volksgemeinschaft sell the ideological playing card where no labour policy existed?

Answer 3

appealed to abstract emotions such as pride and patriotism

focused less on the worker and more on the ennobling aspects of work

idealised the image of the worker to raise the status if not the wages

Question 4

What did Volksgemeinschaft aim to do for working class?

Answer 4

psychological assimilation of worker into national life

Question 5

Two examples of how volksgemeinschaft aimed to psychologically assimilate the worker into national life?

Answer 5

hitler called the first worker of the nation

May Day transformed from celebration of working class solidarity into the National Day of labour a reaffirmation of the national community

Question 6

What was the ideological notion of volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 6

every pure german had the right to equality regardless of social background or occupational position