Hitler's domestic policies 1933-39 Flashcards
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What is Volksgemeinschaft?
“People’s community”
- One of pure race where ppl dedicated themselves to interest of the state
Untermensch?
Non Aryan People
Where did power lie in Nazi Germany?
- Propaganda
- Himler
- Goebals
How was propaganda used to install domination?
Used to make Hitler look powerful but in reality day to day running of state by ministers
Who is Himler?
The minister who was in charge of the police
Who is Goeblar?
Minister in charge of propaganda
How was fear used to keep control?
- Constitution
- The SS
- Death’s head formation
- Waffen SS
- Gestapo
- Block warden
- The SD
How was constitution used to keep control?
No constitution after 1933
- Ppl can be arrested w/out trial
- New courts and police organizations introduced
How was the SS used to keep control?
An elite guards of Nazi regime that controlled entire police system in 1936
- Established vast economic empire
How was the death’s head formation used to keep control?
Administered concentration camps
Waffen SS?
Military organization that had 240K members by 1939
How was the gestapo used to keep control?
Small organization w/only 20k members in 1939 who created fear and suspicion among German population
How was the block warden used to keep control?
In control of blocks and would visit houses to check up and take donations
- People would voluntarily snitch on neighbors
- Arrests became random because of so many calls in
What is the SD?
Sicherheitsdienst
- Intelligence gathering agency for the security of Hitler
What was used as propaganda?
Radio which was overseen by Goebals
- 70% of households had radios by 1930
Social rituals
The Hitler myth
What were the social rituals used?
- Heil Hitler greeting w/Nazi salute
- Public festivals celebrating key Nazi achievements
What was the Hitler myth?
That Hitler was fighting to defeat the nation’s internal and external enemies, and he a political genius who recovered Germany of its WW1 humiliation and he was a man of the people
- 90% admiration
Actions against Jews in 1920’s?
Lots of documented racism in writing and speech’s which made it to the public
When did Nazi Germany begin
1933
What were laws in schools like?
After 1935 all teachers must be apart of German’s Teacher’s League
- Jew kids segregated in schools
When were the Nuremberg laws?
1935
What was the “law for protection of German blood and honour”
Jews can’t marry Aryans and women under 45 couldn’t work in Jew households
Laws in 1938?
New identification papers, ‘J’ marked for JEWISH
- Women had to make their middle name Sarah and men Israel
kristallnacht?
9Nov1938
Party radicals attacked 7k businesses
- Revenge for shooting German embasay
