Life In Nazi Germany 1933 -39 Flashcards
Nazi view is on women
- did not wear make up , was blond and heavy hipped , did not smoke and work , did all house chores and raise children
- Nazi germany worked hard to raise the birth rate because birth rates had dropped to under 1millon in 1933 . Jewish people were allowed abortions but non Jewish were not
- propaganda was launched to promote motherhood and large families . Loans were given to young couples so they could marry , so long as the wife left her job .
Nazi view on women pt2
- on hitlers mothers birthday medals were awarded to women with large families , bronze for 5 children, silver for 6 children , gold for 8 children
-nazis set up lebensbraun where specifically chosen women could Donate a baby to the furher by becoming pregnant by ‘racially pure’ men
-instead of work women were asked to follow the 3 k’s kinder , kuche , kirche which translates to children kitchen and church
-Nazi organisations for women
- jungmadelbund (young girls league) - age 10-14
-bund deutscher Madel (league of German maidens ) - age 14-18
- glaube und schonheit ( faith and beauty society )- age 18-21
- women’s front (frauenfront) -age 21+
-reich mothers service (trained midwives and housewives) - age 21+
Nazi policies towards young
- academic ability was not the most important as it mean that they sought prowess in athletics
-schools for future leader were called napola (national political training institutes)
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Nazi policies towards education
- mein kamf was a standardised text amid history books were re written to promote racial purity
- teachers were forced to join nazi teachers league teacher were forced to promote Nazi ideas
Lessons began with the ‘heil Hitler’ chant and children were made to believe that Germany was surrounded by hostile neighbours and communism is evil
- children were toaght about the Nazi iPad to the aryan race and how they were superior. They were taught not to marry inferior races like Jewish people
Hitler youth
- little fellows (pimpfe)- age 6-10 they did sport hiking and camping
- German young people (deutsches jungvolk)- age 10 -13 they did military preparation
- Hitler youth (hitlerjugend) - age 14-18 they did military training
Policies to reduce unemployment
-reich labour service: scheme to provide young men with manual labour jobs . Form 1935 it was compulsory for all men aged 18-35 to serve for 6 months
- they introduced a road building programme that built 3000 km of autobahns (motorways) more that 125,000 men were involved in the construction.
Invisible unemployment
- Jewish people were dismissed from their jobs
- women who were dismissed from their jobs and or quit
-Opponents of Nazi party who were put into concentration camps
Rearmament
- re introduced conscription , the army grew from 100,000 in 1933 to 1,400,000 by 1939
-heavy industry expanded the need for coal and steel doubled
-billions was spent on producing aircraft , tanks , ships . In 1933 3.5 Billion was spent that increased to 26 billion in 1939
Changes in the standard of living
-to win workers over Nazi govronment created volksgemeinshaft (peoples community )
-strength through joy (Kraft Durch Fruede- KDF) set up by the German labour front by sponsoring leisure activities . Low cost
- in 1938 more than 10 million people took KDF holidays
Nazi beliefs
-Hitler wanted pure German state , treated all no German (especially Jewish people) as inferior Called untermenschen (subhuman)
-Hitler believed that aryans would be the volksgemeinschaft(peoples community ) and the herrenvolk (master race)
- Hitlers ideal German was blond tall athletic and blue eyed . Hitler banned mixed marriages
- the ss were mostly blue eyed and blonde men who were lean and they were only allowed to marry women of aryan blood
Boycott of Jewish stores
- April 1933 as soon as Hitler became chancellor he persuaded the Germans to boycott Jewish store an and businesses .
- the boycott began on the 1st of April and SA members stood in front of Jewish stores discouraging others to go inside it only lasted a day
Nuremburg laws 1935
- on September 5th 1935 the Nazi government passed 2 racial laws Reich citizenship law and the law to protect German blood and honour
- the Reich citizenship law stated that only those of German blood could be German . Jewish people lost their citizenship
-law to protect German blood and honour forbid marriage between Jewish and German citizens. German citizens were encouraged to divorce their Jewish partners
Kristallnacht (night of broken glass )
- on November 8th a young polish Jewish man Herschel grynzpann walked into the German embassy and shot the first official the saw . He was protesting the treatment of Jewish people
-gobbles used this as an excuse to fuel the violence against Jewish people and 100 Jewish people were killed and 20,000 were sent to a concentration camp . 191 synagogues were destroyed , 815 Jewish businesses were destroyed
Treatment of minorities
- people with disabilities: Nazis stated that any once with a mental of physical illness was to be sterilised
-homosexuals : were seen as a distribution to the ideal family unit therefore were sent to concentration camps
-travellers & Roma : they were seen as threatening racial purity and accused them of being work shy . They had to register with authorities
