NAZI SOCIETY Flashcards
Control over working class
Shut down of trade unions- no way to bargain therefore less power
What organisation replaced trade unions?
DAF
Membership of the DAF by 1939
22 million
Beauty of Labour (SdA)
Aimed to provide cleaner working conditions, meals etc
Strength through Joy
Recreational activities eg cultural visits, travels etc
Downsides of Nazi policies to working classes/industrial workers
Still had to pay tax to DAF
Increase in working hours
Unemployment statistics manipulated- women and Jews
Conscription
How did farmers benefit from Nazi policy?
Promise of financial aid
How did farmers benefit from Nazi policy?
Promise of financial aid
‘Blood and soil’
Farmers as the racially purest element of the Volk
Benefits for farmers (4)
Farm debts written off
Small farmers given low interest rates
Reich Entailed Farm Law 1933
Reich Food Estate 1933
By how much did agricultural production increase over 1928-1938?
20%
Businesses
Helped by the upturn in world trade and banning of trade unions
Landowners
Nazi policies did not threaten their interests
Mittelstand (2)
Supported confiscation of Jewish businesses as it gave them low interest rates
New trading regulations supported small craftsmen
Downsides for middle class
Could not compete with big businesses
Co-ordination in schools (3)
Centralised under the Reich Ministry of Education
Teaching ‘reconditioned’ eg banned Jewish teachers
National Socialist Teachers League
What was the Nazi association for teachers?
National Socialist Teachers League
How many teachers were a part of the National Socialist Teachers League by 1937?
97%
How much school time was spent on physical education?
15%
Hitler Youth
Political indoctrination
Sexes moulded for their future roles
How many teachers were members of the Nazi party by 1936?
32%
Evidence of youth conformity
Welcomed extra curricular activities
Atmosphere of fun and belonging
Evidence of youth opposition
Less impact on adolescents
Swing youth, Edelweiss Piraten
What religion did Hitler try to start up?
The German Faith Movement
Hitler’s attitude to religion at the beginning
Paid tribute to churches
SA encouraged to attend Protestant services
Day of Potsdam religion
Gave the impression Nazism could accomodate Protestantism
What did the Catholic church sign to safeguard their position under the Nazis?
Catholic Concordat July 1933
Opposition to Nazi religious policy
Formation of the Confessional Church
What did Hitler create to destabilise the churches?
Ministry of Church Affairs
What did the Ministry of Church affairs do? (3)
Closed church schools
Harassed clergy
Confiscated church funds
What % of people caught on to Neo-protestantism?
5%
What % of university students were female?
10%
What incentive did the Nazis provide for women to withdraw from the labour market ?
June 1933 interest free loans made available
Failures in policies for women
War reversed the employment levels
What role did propaganda play in the family?
Glorified motherhood and the large family
Marriage and family measures (6)
Marriage loans Improved family allowances Income tax in proportion to children Improved maternity benefits Stricter abortion laws Restricted contraceptive advice
What did they award mothers with when they had children ?
Honour Cross of the German Mother
How many children on estimate were born in Lebensborns?
11,000
What law allowed compulsory sterilisation?
July 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
What law forbade marriage for those mentally disabled or hereditarily diseased?
Oct 1935 Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German Nation
How many homosexuals were imprisoned in camps?
10,000-15,000
What office was set up to deal with ‘asocials’?
The Reich Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion
Nuremburg laws
Changed the status of Jews- legal framework for the Holocaust
What did the SA do to Jewish shops 1 April?
Boycotted them
Use of propaganda- Jews
Propaganda to indoctrinate anti- semitism
Which law set towards confiscating all Jewish property?
26 April Decree for the Registration of Jewish Property
‘Decree to ______ Jews from ______ ____’
‘Decree to Exclude Jews from Common Life’
