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How did nazi economic and social policy affect life in Germany?
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What measures were used to control the economy, reduce unemployment and control the work force? |
measures to control economy - he used deficit spending to boost economy - Volkswagen scheme measures to control unemployment - National labour service provided men with manual labour jobs compulsory for men 18-25 - strength through joy act sponsored leisure and cultural trips , theatre trips this made work look fun The Unemployment Relief Act * Build a network of motorways (Autobahn)* Build hospitals |
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What was the role of women? |
- to be stay at home wives baring children no make-up no permed hair gave up their jobs to men stayed at home to bring up the children
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what was the role of women? (Nazi polices and reasoning) |
Nazis policies for women women were discouraged from slimming as it was bad for child baring - on Hitler's mothers birthday women with large family were awarded medals this encouraged high birth rates - 1933 the law for encouragement of marriage introduced this was to make work for women look less attractive |
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How did education and youth movements control the young? ( education) |
education - teachers had to swear on oath of loyalty to Hitler and join the Nazi teachers league, they had to promote Nazi ideals in the classroom - textbooks were rewritten to fit the Nazi view of history and racial purity - the lessons began and ended with the students saluting and saying 'hail Hitler' - Nazi themes were portrayed in every subject |
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How did education and youth movements control the young? ( youth movements) |
- in 1936 all other youth organisations were banned - from 1939 membership was compulsory - by 1939 there were 7 million members males( Hitler youth) - boys joined aged 10 - from ages 12-14 they become members of the Hitler youth - practiced marching, map reading and military skills females ( league of German maidens) - girls joined aged 6 - from age 14 and 18 joined league of German maidens - they learned domestic skills in preparation for motherhood |
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How successful was the education and youth movements
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they were very successful as the young are naïve and fresh minded it is easy to manipulate/brainwash them them because they do not know what's going on.
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How did Nazi political policy affect life in Germany ? |
The Nazis made sure that the German people supported them by using terror and inciting fear
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what was the police state? |
the SS( intimidation) - controlled by Henrich Himmler - bodyguards of Hitler - total obedience to Hitler - helped Hitler by removing other opponents Gestapo - 1933 set up by Goering - could arrest and imprison anyone - most feared Police courts - controlled by the Reichstag - they couldn't be too soft or Hitler would change their judgment - this meant that Nazi views were upheld in courts concentration camps - controlled by Himmler - played on peoples fears - to increase political opponents torturing them / hard labour |
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How did the Nazis extend their control over central and local government?
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the cabinet - eventually lost all their power, Nazi officials were put in the cabinet roles, 1938 no non-Nazi members the Reichstag - the enabling act meant that it change to chancellor the fuhrer - changed it from president to fuhrer meaning he had all power Reich chancellery -took it over this meant he could make new laws state governments - all state parliaments were closed by Nazis this gives powers in every single area in the country be able to change laws |
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How were propaganda and censorship used? |
- magazines only printed what the Nazis wanted them to print - all radio stations were placed under Nazi control, Nazi message was heard everywhere - cinema, all films were shown to Goebbels before production - rallies, to advertise the power of the Nazi state - books, all books were censored 200,000 Jewish books were burnt |
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Why and how did the Nazis persecute the Jews?
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Numberg laws - Jews lost citizenship - took away their rights - lost right to vote ghettos - conditions were appalling 55,000 jews died jews were forced to dig their own graves before they were shot |
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what was the racial policy?
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Hitler’s argument was that the race needed to be purified, therefore some people had to be prevented from having children, for example, gay people, black people, gypsies, people with a mental illness and people with a physical disability.
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