domestic policies Flashcards
economic policies
- Reichtag Food Estate; peasant farmes garangeed prices for produce
- Reich-entailed Farm Law; small farmers have security of tenure
- 4 year plan; to achieve autarky/manage economy
- Wehrwirtschaft; defence economy for future war to achieve autarky, large scale farms and cartels (efficent)
economic goal
- strengthen germany for future law
- solve economic isses (stimulate economy)
- solve unemploymen
- re armement
5/ balance payment problems
economic recovery
- reduce unemployment (6 million to 2.5 millino in first 18 months)
- prepare for war
= mainly also increase morale of people
how was the economy recovered?
- arbeitsdienst
- deficit financing
- trade with developing countries
- emergency relief
- reich labour sevice
- autobahnen
- government import regulation increase
however;
- female labour discouraged
repression
- infringement of personal liberty
- censorhip and intimidation
- arrests, concentration campsl trialess execetions
- SS and gestapo polices
- law courts; nazi ideology
- spies and informants
- rearment
problems in government?
- confusion in party
- overlappting duties in polycratic sstem
- hitler avoided decisiosn
women policies
‘kinder kirche kuche’
- volksgemeinshaft
- traditional and conservative roles; as breeders, mothers, housewives, community organizers
- abortion made illegal (exept for genetic defects)
- selective breeding for puritu
- loans given for being mothers and wives
- discouraged from work; in war women worked again and were given proffessional training
- encourage children to HItler Youth
- only genetically pure allowed to pcorteate
- men expected to be soldiers/be raised as such
- medals for 8+ births
- sterilizations (forefuL)
youth policies
- nazism and indoctriniation
- hitler youth
- glaube and schoenheit
- censorship and antisemetic values
- oath to fuhrer
- chidlren encouraged to spy on parents
minorities
- sent to concentration camps/arrested/execeuted
- euthanasia
- abortions
- sterilizations
in this case;
- homosexuals, gypsesi, mentally/physically disabled, jews, asocials (criniminals, lazy, prostitutues, etc)
church
- “swatiska on our breats and the cross in our hearts”
nationalism emphaized
concordat deall with pope to prevent interference
reich church; nazi ideology
church opposed euthanasia
culture and the arts
- goebbels used as art propaganda and media
- art; depects aryanism, antisemetic and antifeminism; NAZI ideology
- burning of books
- kultur kammer; german art exhibition
- nazi compulsory clubs; forced restriction and lack of creativity
nuremberg laws
jews are deprived of their rights
youth succcesses
95% loyal to Hitler
Rapid membership increase after 1933, plus compulsory membership
Brainwashed kids –> students prepared to sacrifice themselves for the Nazi loyalty
Hitler Youth became the dominant monopoly over German’s Youth’s spare time
youth failures
Many youth managed to escape the “compulsory memberships” and rival groups emerged
Many turned away from Hitler Youth in later 1930s
The Hitler Youth became less successful with more military training and Nazi lectures etc.
Growing opposition to Hitler Youth - rejection of it + non-Nazi ideas
The Euthansia Programme in 1939
The Euthansia Programme in 1939
Euthansia means a quiet and easy death. Hitler introduced this programme to kill people with mental or physical disabilities who the Nazis judged to lead worthless lives at the expense of the State. 5000 children were killed by starvation or lethal injections. 71,000 adults were killed by injections or gassing. In 1941, Hitler stopped the programme in the face of protests started by the Catholics.
