Nazi Social Policy Flashcards
Education and Schools:
What rules/policies did the Nazis implement?
- Jewish teachers removed, women went back home
- RE abolished
- Text books Nazified
- More focus on sports
Education and Schools:
What were the results of these policies?
- By 1937 the National Socialist Teacher’s League included 97% of all teachers
- Qualification standards were lowered
- Those who didn’t conform to these rules had their statuses reduced in society
Youth Groups:
What rules/policies did the Nazis implement?
Hitler wanted the youth to be “swift as a greyhound, tough as leather and hard as steel”
Youth Groups:
What were the results of these policies?
90% of young Germans were members of HitlerYouth
Boys were taught fitness and target shooting
Girls were taught how to cook and clean
Women’s role in employment and politics:
What rules did the Nazi implement?
- The Nazis believed in ‘Kindle, Kirk and Kuche’ He believed their job belonged at home
- Hitler tried to explain that women had a different purpose to men
Women’s role in employment and politics:
What were the results of these policies?
- Labour exchanges and employers were advised to discriminate positively in favour of men
- Percentage of women in employment fell from 37% to 31%
- Only employment opportunities for employment were Nazi women’s organisations like the NSF (National Socialist Womanhood)
Women’s role as wife and mother:
What were the policies implemented?
Lebensborn, set up by Himmler in 1935- recieved a medal for having more children and Nazi’s way of increasing the Aryan population
Lebensborn created organised brothels for girls to be impregnated by members of SS
Women’s role as wife and mother:
What were the results policies implemented?
Around 17,500 babies were bred during the 10 years the programme ran
Leisure:
What were the policies implemented?
- Robert Ley (Head of German Labour Front) worked out that there were 3740 hours of free time for the average German worker, and he wanted to make sure this time wasn’t wasted. “People happy in their free time, will be happy, hard workers”
- Ley ordered two 25,000 tonne cruise-liners to take German workers on foreign holidays
- The Strength Through Joy programmed (KDF), organised by the German Labour Front, was one of the key organisations which organised leisure activities for the workers
Leisure:
What were the results of the policies implemented?
Despite the German workers paying for these benefits through compulsory deductions, the image of people being given holidays was of great propaganda value to the Germans
