Germany 4: Nazi Germany Flashcards

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Reichstag Fire

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  • 27th February 1933
  • Marianus Van der Lubbe charged
  • 4,000 communists arrested
  • Communists lost 19 seats
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March 1933 Election

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  • Recruited 50,000 SA members
  • Violence led to 70 deaths
  • Threats at polling stations to encourage correct voting
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Enabling Act

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  • Passed 444 votes to 94
  • Applied for 4 years but renewed in 1937
  • Hitler could pass laws without the Reichstag
  • Reichstag only met 12 more times till 1945
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Threat of Rohm

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  • SA had 2 million members
  • Rohm had more socialist views
  • SA wanted to replace the army
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Night of the long knives

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  • 29th June 1934 SS killed SA leaders
  • 90 SA leaders killed
  • SS became more powerful, SA less powerful
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Hitler as Fuhrer

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  • Hindenbrug died, Hitler combined Chancellor and President
  • 2nd August 1934 Army swore oath specifically to Hitler
  • Named himself Fuhrer, supreme leader
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Nazi Leadership Schools

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  • NAPOLAs - Boys aged 10-18 educated in leaderhsip, 39 schools in 1939
  • Adolf Hitler Schools - Elite schools for 12-18 year olds for military leadership
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Nazi Youth Movements

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  • 1936 all eligible youth must be in the Hitler youth
  • 8 million members by 1939
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Nazi policies on women

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  • Kinder,Kirche,Kuche
  • From 1933 loans available to married couples
  • Large focus on women being homemakers and mothers
  • Contraception and abortion banned
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Nazis and Catholic Church

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  • Concordat - 1933, no cross involvement between church and state, church allowed to run youth groups and schools
  • Breaking - Hitler removed catholic newspapers and images, prompting a rebuke by the pope in 1937
  • Nazis responded with a huge crackdown on the church
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Nazis and protestant church

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  • Nazis created ReichChurch in 1933
  • Confessional church made in 1934 to rival Nazi churches but quickly shut down
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer hung 1945
  • By 1939 only 5% of Germans believed in God
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Nazi persecution of Jews

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Economic plans

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New plan - Reduce imports and increase exports, spent 1 billion marks on public schemes
Four Year Plan - From 1936, aimed to make Germany self sufficient in raw resources, 1939 Germany still imported 1/3

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Invisible unemployment

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  • Nazis manipulated figures to make it seem employment reduced
  • Women were not included
  • Jews not included
  • National Labour Service organised work for unemployed men and they were no longer counted as unemployed
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Effects of Nazi economic policy

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  • pre 1936 economy focused on increasing employment
  • Four Year plan aimed to prepare for war
  • People were not better off
  • Germany had to start rationing immediatetly in Sep 1939
  • Unemployment down and industry up
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Groups effects by Nazi economic policy

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  • Big bussiness benefitted most
  • profits went from 1.3 Bil in 1928 to 5 Bil in 1939
  • Middle classes, workers and Farmers saw little improvement
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Propaganda Key messages

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  1. The supremacy of the Aryan race and the inferiority of the Jews and other races
  2. The tremendous work being done by the Nazis to deal with the evils of Communism
  3. The different roles of men and women in society and the importance of family
  4. The fact that all citizens had a duty to suffer for the good of the nations
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Radio

Propaganda

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  • Goebbels “spiritual weapon of the totalitarian state”
  • 1939, 70% of Germans had a Radio
  • Programmes would inclue Hitlers speeches, Nazi history and German music
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1936 Olympics

Propaganda

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  • Germany won the most medals
  • Huge stadium to hold 100,000
  • Showed Germany and Aryans as a strong people
  • However, Jesse Owens a black American won 4 gold medals