Workers Flashcards
What is a Volksgemeinshaft?
Volksgemeinschaft is a society would no longer be composed of individuals or groups of individuals, pursuing separate interests. Instead, people belonged to a much larger group - the National or People’s Community – which put the common good of the country before the good of the individual. New unified community based on blood and race, common world view. Not a change in social structure, but a change in consciousness acting together.
What does Jill Stephenson say about Volksgemeinshaft?
“an aspiration of the Nazi leadership that remained at best only partially fulfilled.”
Kershaw said it was successful in doing what but ALL other attempts to create Volksgemeinshaft were not successful
Removal of Jews
Richard Evans says what transformation happened due to the Volksgemeinshaft? .
there was a transformation, but it was cultural rather than social
What does Peukert say about the Volksgemeinshaft?
“Volksgemeinschaft not been achieved by 1939 internal harmony was maintained by diverting public opinion against minority groups”
Who said “the national community was created neither in reality nor in popular social conceptions”
Mary Fullbrook
What does Tim Mason say about the Volksgemeinshaft?
“Hitler failed to overcome the stubborn despairing of the refusal of the working classes to become the selfless servant of the regime”
Who said Volksgemeinshaft “proved to be the most consistent, coherent and revolutionary aspect of Nazism”
Evans and Jenkins
What does Schoenbaum say about the Volksgemeinshaft?
“Social revolution”
Big business wages rose by what?
50%
What does Tim Kirk say about propaganda and the national community?
despite ‘the ambitious rhetoric of its propaganda’ the Nazi regime did not bring about the Volksgemeinschaft.
What did Mary Fullbrook say about the creation of the national community
“the national community was created neither in reality nor in popular social conceptions”
What did businesses complain about nazi actions?
They faced threats of being accused of national sabotage.
The possibility of what was used by the government as a potential threat to business if employers did not conform to government wishes. The possibility of increasing DAF’s power. DAF is important as a good example of Nazi Gleichschaltung, that is Nazi control of all key areas.
Some businesses did lose out due to the Nazis. Why?
The Nazis set up their own steel companies to meet military goals and those took priority over established companies.
Factory owners were given complete authority over their workers though party officials were also appointed to keep watch. By 1935 all workers were to possess what?
to possess a labour book with their job record and racial background
By 1937 monopolies (which the Nazis had promised to tackle) controlled what percentage of production?
over 70 per cent of production-.
Private ownership companies such as what benefited from Nazi plans for rearmament?
Daimler-Benz and Volkswagen
Chemical giant IG Farben received huge government contracts to make what?
explosives, fertilisers, and artificial oil
Agricultural prices rose by how much?
20%
What was the Reich food estate?
Reich Food Estate which was an organisation all German farmers had to join if they wanted to trade/sell their produce
As a result of the entailed farm law what did the peasants find it hard to do?
Such peasants found it hard to get new loans, since they could not use their entailed farms as security
Under the May 1933 Entailed Farm Law family farms could not be what?
sold or mortgaged and had to be passed on to one person. (fixed in ownership)- protected from eviction
The May 1933 Entailed Farm Law was designed to protect what?
traditional small farms (those of 18–30 acres), about 35 per cent of all farms.
The Law to Protect Retail Trade in 1933 did what?
placed special taxes on large stores and banned new department stores
