Life in Nazi Germnay

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Nazi Germany Revision

How did life change under theNazis?


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Economic PolicyHitler came to

power during theGreatDepression.

What did hepromise voters?

Work andBread


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What were Hitlers 3 aimsfor the Germaneconomy?

Rearmament (build uparmy)

Make Germany self-sufficient (make owngoods so they didnthave to rely on othercountries)

Reduce unemployment


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What was the German Labour Front(DAF?) [4]

Organisation to control workers set up by DrRobert Ley

Workers HAD to join

All other trade unions were banned this wasthe only one.

They decided wages.

Made them work building new motorways,schools, hospitals etc


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What was Strength Through Joy? [4]

Part of DAF

Organised leisure time ofworkers e.g. cheap

theatre trips, cruises,holidays etc. (Jewsobviously not welcome)

Used for propaganda for

the Nazis

All workers encouragedto save for a Volkswagen


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All 18-25 year old menhad to do 6 monthswork service.

Unpopular because it

was hard, manual labourand poorly paid.

Nazis tried to use the

RAD to indoctrinateyoung adults.

Some liked it because itgave them a uniform

and a sense of purpose.

What was the RAD? [4]


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He did want any potential opposition

He could control workers via the DAF instead

German labour front took away the right tostrike and reduced workers pay

Many trade unionists imprisoned inconcentration camps

How did Hitler deal with Trade Unions?[4]


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Was life better for workers?

RAD: unpopularbecause of low

People worked longerhours

Trade unions banned.

Many Jews andwomen sacked from

their jobs

Communists etccouldnt claimunemployment

benefit

Small

businessesbenefited.

Big businessesbenefited from

rearmament

DAF: For

many, thiswas a lifeline.

Strengththrough Joy


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What did the Nazisthink women shouldconcentrate on?

K, K, K Kinder,Kuche, Kirche

Children, Cooking andChurch


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How did they encourage women to havechildren?

Propaganda

Financialrewards forbrides who did

not work and forgiving birth

MotherhoodCross medals

to women whohad more than 4children


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How did they encourage women to havechildren?

15% of all teachers, womendoctors and civil servantswere sacked.

Public pressure. andposter campaignsencouraged to stop womensmoking and to encouragethem to do sport (to

increase their fertility)


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What was the name of the mainorganisation for Nazi children?


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Dont forget Hitlers attitude towardschildren!

I believe that children arethe future!


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What organisation did girls join?

BDM


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Name 3 activities of the Hitler YouthCamping

Hiking

War Games

Sports

Military training


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Why was education so important tothe Nazis?

Wanted a futuregeneration that were

blindly loyal to Hitler and

the Nazis.

Needed to prepare boys

for the army (to fulfil the

Lebensraum plan)

Used schools for

propaganda.


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All teachers vetted by local Nazi officials. Any

teacher considered disloyal was sacked.

97% of all teachers joined the Nazi Teachers'

Association.

Subjects changed i.e. History was based on the

glory of Germany.

Jewish children ridiculed and humiliated

Girls taught to focus on Children, Cooking,

Church

Big emphasis on PE.

How did Nazi policy affecteducation?


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What was the Concordat?

The Pope signed a Concordat with Hitler. Heagreed not to interfere in Nazi politics if the

Church was left alone.


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How did the Nazis change the Church?

Church posed a threat to the Nazis. They didnt wantpeople being loyal to any other organisation.

Concordat signed with Pope.

Many Jehovahs Witnesses were sent toconcentration camps.

In 1936, the Reich Church was created. This did nothave the Christian cross as its symbol but the

swastika. The Bible was replaced by "Mein Kampf"which was placed on the altar. By it was a sword. Onlyinvited Nazis were allowed to give sermons in a ReichChurch.


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How did Church resist the Nazi policies?

Many Church leaders wentalong with the Nazi policies

Martin Niemoller startedConfessional Church

Sent to concentration camp.


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The Nazis and the Jews

Remember, the Jews were NOT sent toconcentration camps immediately!!!


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Who were the untermensch?

People the Nazis thought weresubhuman

Jews, gypsies, homosexuals,

mentally ill peopleJews persecuted, then sentto ghettoes, thenconcentration camps

% of Germany's gypsieswere killed.Blackpeople were sterilised

and killed.


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Remember!

1933 Nazis cometo power

1935 NuremburgLaws

1938 Kristallnacht

1939-Final Solution


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How were the Jews treated when theNazis first came to power?

SA stopped people buying from Jewish shops.

They were marked with yellow star or had Juden writtenon them

Propaganda against Jews.

Children at schools taught anti-Semitic ideas

On buses, trains and park benches, Jews had to sit on seatmarked for them.


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The Nazis and the Jews

Remember, the Jews were NOT sent toconcentration camps immediately!!!


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What were the Nuremburg Laws?

Jews no longerGerman citizens

Could not voteForbidden tohave

relationshipswith non-Jews

Violence against Jews

intensified after this


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The Nazi Power Structure


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The SS The most powerful organisation

Originally Hitlers private

bodyguards SchutzStaffelprotection

squad

At first only 500 men, then built

into an elite force of 50,000 tallblonde, blue-eyed Aryansupermen

Physical standards very strict

Fiercely loyal to Hitler Helped crush SA in Night of

Long Knives (becameblackshirts)

Led by Himmler

Until 1936 even a filling in a

toothwas enough

to keep a man out

of the SS!


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What did the SS do?

Terrorised and intimidated

Germans into obedienceUnlimited power could

arrest people without trial,search houses andconfiscate property.

Ran concentration camps(first ones tradeunionists/communists sentfor re-education)

When the war began, theyhad their own fighting units

the Waffen SS


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By 1939, they had built up a massivebusiness using their prisoners as slave

labour, extracting raw materials andmanufacturing weapons.

Remember, they did not

become

death camps untilthe later years


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Police, court and prisons

The Nazis did not get rid of the existing police andprison services; they simply took control ofthem.

Police came under the command of the SS.

The Gestapo (secret police) were feared byeveryone. There was said to be a Gestapo

officer on every street corner, on every bus andin every place of work.


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Informers

Each town was divided into small units calledblocks, which included only a handful of homes.

The Block Warden (local Nazi) visited themweekly, collecting donations and checking up onthem. e.g. check they are flying party flag

Wrote reports could be reported to Gestapo

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Essay Question Was life better under theNazis? (Remember NOW YOU!)

Nazi Party membershappy. Best houses, preferential treatment, good jobs andpower.

Ordinary peoplelife was good. Many Germans even look back today andremember the 30s as happy times.

Economic policies had put many people back to workStrength through Joy programme gave some people fun and holidaysLaw and order had improvedNew motorways, schools and hospitals had been builtNazi propaganda gave people hopeSome negative pointslack of freedom of speech etc but many people thought this was

necessary to keep law and order.

Women some liked Nazi policies. Financial rewards for mothers and those who gotmarried.Some women resented having to stay at homes and have children

Many women sacked from their jobs.

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Essay Question Was life better under theNazis? (Remember NOW YOU!)

Young people many enjoyed Hitler Youth. Fun,

exciting, made friends. Children treated like they werespecial and important.

Some children didnt want to join but had to. Swing Kids etc.

Some girls unhappy with emphasis on cooking, church andchildren.

Opponents to the Nazis life was terrible. Trade unionists,

Communists, killed or sent to concentration camps. Anyonewho spoke out against Nazis reported to Gestapo.

Undesirables Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill all

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