Nazi - Living Standards

Question 1

Treatment of people with disabilities

Answer 1

T4 Euthanasia Programme (1939)

• disabled children, elderly + mentally ill
• 70,000 died

Question 2

Treatment of asocials

Answer 2

• Troubled families sent to ‘re-education’ at Hashude

Question 3

Living standards for workers

Answer 3

• Increased wages (1938 wage 10x higher than 1932)
• Cost of living dropped (1939 cost 83% of 1928 cost)
• Working hours still long
• Primitive conditions

Question 4

Strength through Joy

Answer 4

Provided

• Loan provisions
• Medical care
• Leisure

Question 5

Living standards for peasants and small farmers

Answer 5

• Farmers’ debts written off
• Reich Entailed Farm Law + Reich Food Estate
• Farmers seen as racially pure - “Blood and Soil”
• Increasing peasant disillusionment after 1936

Question 6

National Socialist People’s Welfare (NSV)

Answer 6

1933

• Creches and kindergartens created to influence children from a young age
• Winter Aid programmes created to distribute food and clothing parcels to the poor
• By 1939, over a million voluntary workers