VOLKSGEMEINSCHAFT Flashcards
WORKERS: what was ‘Strength through joy’?
State welfare organisation - support for workers improve conditions and morale
offered incentives and promoted the beauty of labour
WORKERS: state paid holidays increased from __ in 1934 to __ in 1938
state paid holidays increased from 2.3mil in 1934 to 10.3mil in 1938
WORKERS: how did the Nazis attempt to promote the policy of ‘Mittelstand’?
employers eat in same canteen as workers
court of honours - solve disputes between workers and employer
WORKERS: working hours from 1933-39
1933: 43hrs
1939: 47hrs
WORKERS: how many were in the DAF by 1939
22mil
WORKERS: what did the German Labour Front promise workers?
campaigns - good conditions, better ventilation, hot meals and activities
WORKERS: what were public work schemes?
central part of unemployment - 1 bil invested into these schemes - building schools, autobahns
WORKERS: what was the Reich Labour Service?
JUNE 1935
Young men to do 6 months of service - poor conditions and pay but absorbed unemployed
WORKERS: how did the Nazis positively impact workers? (2)
- most workers earning 20% more in 1939 compared to 1933
- unemployment fell to 2.4mil by 1934
YOUTH: why were the youth important?
- important to engrain ideology - despite decline in support still some of the most enthusiastic supporters
- to achieve 100 Year Reich
YOUTH: who led Hitler Youth?
von Shirach
YOUTH: when did membership of the Hitler Youth become cumpulsory?
March 1939
YOUTH: How many were in Hitler Youth by 1939
7.5mil
YOUTH: How many were in the Young Girls League?
10k by 1933`
YOUTH: key aspects of Hitler Youth
- exciting to demoralised youth
- hiking, camping
- uniform
YOUTH: how many Adolf Hitler Schools were there?
10
YOUTH: what percentage of Teachers were part of the National Socialist Teachers’ League? Why was this the case
97% - non-nazis sacked
YOUTH: limitations of youth policy (2)
- curfews, prohibition alienated youth when they should have been prepared to support
- growth in rebel gangs - swing movement
FARMERS: what was banned by the Reich’s farm laws
banned farm division
FARMERS: what was the Reich Food Estate
SEP 1933
Set standards/goals - hen had to lay 65 eggs a year
WOMEN: by how much did marriage rates increase?
increased by 130k/year between 1922-39
WOMEN: by how much did birth rates increase?
increased by 0.5mi/year between 1933-39
WOMEN: how many had left unemployment by 1937?
1/6
WOMEN: how many members did he German Women’s Enterprise have?
6mil
WOMEN: what was the Lebensborn campaign?
- The Spring of Life 1935 - raising perfect little aryans
- abortion banned
WOMEN: 3 limitations of the Nazi policy on women
- produced sex imbalance 1:3 - destroyed cult of the German man and paved way for feminism to rise later opposing their aims
- by 1945 one in 6 resorted to prostitution
- war + full employment - women return to workplace - over 10mil by 1939
CHURCH: who was Hans Kerrl? (3)
- Ministry of Church Affairs
- involved in movement which removed crucifixes, confiscated church funds etc
- after Pope Pius Letter - Church affairs directly handled by the party
CHURCH: 2 key acts of opposition from the Church
March 1937 - Pope Pius XI letter with ‘Deep Anxiety’ to bishops about mistreatment of the Church
1941 Bishop Galen speaks against euthanasia campaign - programme ended
