Social Policy Flashcards
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Volksgemeinschaft
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- transforming German society
- ‘peoples community’ - overcome old German divisions of class
- new national identity - working together for good of germany
- if you didn’t work hard - classed as a-social
2
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Race
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- racially pure - Aryan
- ‘survival of the fittest’ - social darwinism
3
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Traditional German Values
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- blood and soil
- had to work the land
4
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Industrial Workers
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- working class made up largest section of society
- couldn’t assume Volksgemeinschaft would win them over
- they were essential to Hitler with rearmament to help with economy
- German Labour Front replaced T.Unions
- Strength through joy movement - work hard, be rewarded
- working hours increased
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Peasants and Small Farmers
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- they liked the Nazis as they offered something for them
- during the economic crisis, their big loans were wiped
- rural prices rose which helped them
- Farm Law: can’t split land, making it more efficient as they wanted to be self-sufficient during the war
6
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Landowners
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- low interest rates
- cheap land available during the war in attempt to make Germany self-sufficient
7
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Mittelstand
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- introduced law to protect retail 1933 - stopped new dept stores opening (most were jewish)
- important class but had focussed on the upper and peasants
8
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Ideological Opponents
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- communists - many sent to camps in 1933
- anyone who didn’t accept the regime e.g Pastor Niemaller, General Staffenburg
9
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Biologically Inferior
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- all races to the Nazis seen as inferior (Jews, Gypsies, Slavs)
- mentally and physically disabled
- 1933; ‘Law for the prevention of hereditary diseased offspring’ , allowed for the compulsory sterilisation of those with hereditary conditions
- 1939; euthanasia for children with severe disabilities - Operation T4, 70,000 gassed 1940-41
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Asocials
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- behaviour not viewed as acceptable
- social outcasts - alcoholics, prostitutes, workshy
- the orderly were rounded up or organised in Labour Front
- the disorderly imprisoned or sterilised
- homosexuals - couldn’t have children, 15,000 were imprisoned
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Youth
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- Hiter Youth- get ready for army, always surrounded by the Nazi ideology. It was a form of indoctrination, the child should go, all building towards the 1000Yr Reich
- Education - people would get ready for their roles in life. Education had a Nazi twist, emphasis on P.E for war, History and Biology. Teachers had to be loyal to the regime, which made it become a less appealing profession
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Women
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- 3k’s
- lebensborn, rewards for having children and a grant/loans for having children, all lead to the birth rate between 1933-39 birth rate rose but then slowly declined
- the number of marriages increased, but so did divorce. This is because divorce became easier, making it easier to have more children.
13
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Shop Boycotts
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- 1st April 1933
- only lasted a day, as not everyone hated the Jews, and as Hitler wasn’t in a strong position due to A.48, he couldn’t use power to enforce the law.
- It was optional for public, and was therefore abandoned
14
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Nuremburg Laws
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- Sept/Oct/Nov 1935 (series of laws)
- banned sexual relations between Germans and Jews
- took away Jewish citizenship
- it was a law, therefore, had to be followed
15
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Kristallnacht
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- 9th November 1938
- destruction of Jewish homes, businesses and shops
- burnt 200 synagogues
- first violence against the Jews, and was government sponsored
