Social Policy And Practice In Nazi Germany Flashcards
Nazi Education
Every Subject was used to put forward Nazi propaganda (Like in history how Nazi were treated badly after WW1)
They studied Eugenics, the study of Races
PE was very important for boys, to prepare them for the army - girls studied domestic skills
Hitler Youth
A club were they were prepared for warfare and indoctrinated my Nazi idiology
It was compulsory by 1939 for boys and it ran all national sporting activities
All other youth groups were banned in 1933
Women
In Weimar Government:
Many women went to university and got highly educated jobs
In Nazi Germany:
The focus was on Kinder, Kirche, Kuche (Children, Church and Cooking)
Nazi’s felt it was a women’s patriotic duty to stay at home and have kids
Nazi’s Policies Against Women
Contraception and Abortion was banned and there were motherhood medals
Many female doctors and lawyers were sacked to produce children
Women were banned from unladylike activities in some cities - smoking
Some women were sterilised due to certain conditions they suffered
Impact of the Policies on Women
Birth rate per year increased by 450,000 between 1933 and 1939
Nazis and Christians
On the whole they didn’t get along, however they agreed on some things…
Importance of marriage, the family and moral values
They both disliked communism
Hitler promised he would respect the church
Who was persecuted
Racial groups:
Jews
Gypsies
Slavs
Undesirables:
Mentally disabled
Physically Disabled
Prostitutes
Homosexuals
Persecution Stats
350,000 disabled people were sterilised
6 million Jews and gypsies were killed
200,000 disabled people were killed from 1939+
Effects on Jews
Jewish lawyers, judges and teachers lost their jobs
Jewish children were forced out of school
The Nuremberg Laws
All Jewish shops were marker with a yellow star
Kristallnacht (The night of the Broken Glass)
Nuremberg Laws
1935
Banned marriages between Jews and non-Jews
Jews German citizenship was also removed
Kristallnacht
The night of the broken glass
Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked
20,000 Jews sent to concentration camps and 100 killed
Jewish Persecution in the war
Sent to ghettos
Execution squads were sent into the country sides to kill Jews
The holocaust
The Final Solution
Overseen by Heinrich Himmler - Head do the SS
The final solution was the mass murder of every Jew in Nazi controlled area
Jewish Resistance
Blew up railways
15 guards were killed at a death camp and 150 prisoners escaped
