Life in Nazi Germany Flashcards
Women, youth, employment, and minorities
Women
What were the 3 K’s, in relation to expectations of women?
Think: Patriarchal values
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
(Children, Kitchen, Church)
Women
What did Goebbles (minister of propaganda) say about the role of women?
Their job is to “be beautiful and bring children into the world”
Women
How were women encouraged to marry and have children?
Think: awards, money
“Mother’s Cross” - different levels for larger amounts of children
Loan of 1000 marks for newlyweds, and they keep 250 marks for each child they had
Women
What was the Lebensborn programme?
German women were able to volunteer to be impregnated by an Aryan SS member
Women
What did the law for the reduction of uneployment do for women?
Promised/gave money for women who did not work
Women
Between 1933 and 1939, despite everything, how much did female employment rise by?
2 million
Women
How were women expected to look and act during Nazi rule?
Not expected to wear makeup/trousers, dye their hair, or smoke in public
Fashion was meant to emulate traditional German peasant fashion
Women
Why were German women discouraged from staying slim?
It was thought that slimmer women had the most trouble giving birth
Youth Groups
When was membership of youth groups made compulsory?
1936
Youth Groups
What was the Hitler Youth?
Purpose and activities
Preparation for German boys to become future soldiers. Activities were centred around exercise, rifle practice, army drills, and political indoctrination
Youth Groups
What was the League of German Maidens?
Purpose and activities
Preparing German girls for motherhood. Activities were centred around developing domestic skills such as cooking and sewing
Education
What lessons/elements were added to the curriculum to reflect the Nazi ideology?
Think: literature, Aryan race, preparation for war
- Mein Kampf taught in every school
- Eugenics - “breeding” to produce desired qualities
- Race studies - Aryan race and anti-Semetism
- Physical education upped to five hours a week
Employment
How were jobs created for the unemployed?
- Building of autobahns (German motorways) as well as schools and hospitals
- Rearmament
Employment
The Nazis achieved full employment, but this figure didn’t include…
Think: “invisible unemployment”
- 1.4 million men in the army
- Women and Jewish people who had to give their jobs up to Aryan men
Minorities
Which minorities were persecuted under the Nazis?
You don’t need all of these for the exam, only the ones in bold
Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, the disabled, political opponents, Black people, ** Jewish people**
