Hitler’s Germany1933-1939

1933-1939

The Economic Miracle

Refused to pay reparations from VT

Hybrid Economy:

Some industry nationalized (VW)

Capitalist

(free business) allowed to flourish

The Economic Miracle

Public works projects :

Roads (the autobahn), parks, dams, and rebuilding industry

The Economic Miracle

Unemployment rates drop dramatically!

- 6 million in January 1932

- 2.5 Million in July 1933 and continues to decrease.

HUGE “BUY IN” factor for the Nazis!

The Military under the Nazis

Began to rearm (against VT)

No size limitations

Industry geared up for war material

= greatness of Germany and the Reich

The Youth: “Blood and Honor”Education was national socialized. (1936)

1934 all youth organizations are disbanded

All youth are required to join the Hitler Youth and conform to the ideals of National Socialism.

The Youth

The Reich’s future

Taught boys to be obedient soldiers

Taught girls to have children for the Fuehrer and support families

Propaganda: The key to misinformation

Culture & Art

Roman architecture

Art idealized the perfect human body, seen as “Aryan”

Idealized Nature

Idealized Nazism.

Maintaining Control: rule of fearYouth “brainwashed”

Neighbors turn one another into the authorities

Opposition killed or punished severely

First Concentration Camp, Dachau, opened in 1933

Society: Maintaining ControlPress and radio were censored

Book, art, music, movies, and clothing were regulated by the state.

Civil Rights suspended for the good of the country.

Maintaining ControlSA-Original Nazi Street thugs

Sturmabteilung

The Secret Police-Gestapo The SS-Originally Hitler’s Body Guards

Schutzstaffel

The SD- Secret police of the SS Sicherheitsdienst

Hitler thought that men were superior to women and didn’t believe that women should work. He thought that their main role was to stay at home and have children.

Hitler wanted women to have children to continue the Aryan race in Germany.

Society: Women in Nazi Germany

In 1933 Hitler passed the law for “Encouragement of marriage” which allowed newly married couples to receive a loan of 1000 marks. If a couple had one child, they only had to pay back 75% of the loan, if they had 2, then 50%. If they had 4 children the loan would be cleared. To pay for these loans Hitler heavily taxed people with no children.

Law for “Encouragement of Marriage”

Unmarried women were encouraged to have children by Lebensorn Clinics, where an unmarried Aryan women would be fertilized by a “racially pure” SS man.

Lebensorn Clinics

Society: Racial SuperiorityA German woman undergoes a "racial examination," in which her facial features are measured. Many Germans accepted this propaganda as scientific truth. Circa 1933-1939.

Eugenics

Anti-Semitism

1935 Nuremberg Laws

all Jews are denied citizenship

Boycotted businesses

No education

Jews not allowed employment

1938 -Kristallnacht

Anti-SemitismIllustration from a children's book. The headlines say "Jews are our misfortune" and "How the Jew cheats." Germany, 1936.

Summary

Police State

Germany is Nazified

All become national Socialist

Rule by fear and violence