The Nazi party impacted German family and Community life to a significant extent through varying political, economic and social reforms.Through systematic discrimination against various political and religious groups, indoctrinating the youth, reforming ideas about the role of women and controlling the working class’ lives the Nazi party reshaped the structure of German society during the period of 1933-1939 in an attempt to create a Volksgemeinschaft or ‘people’s community’.
The Nazis saw the Jewish Community as an ‘inferior race’ and blamed them for the loss of the war. Once Hitler came to power in 1933 the Jewish community was increasingly persecuted. The two laws that specifically targeted the Jews were the Nuremberg Laws.These laws were put into effect in 1935 and took away Jews’ German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews. Jewish owned shops were boycotted and vandalised. Jews were not allowed to enter some stores. On the 10th November 1938 the mistreatment escalated in the form of Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). Many Jews were killed or arrested and over 10,000 …show more content…
Women were expected to be devoted housewives and mothers and found themselves being forced to stay home. Within months of Hitler coming to power many women lost their jobs and by 1939 there were very few women left in the workforce. As stated by historian Richard Overy “A woman could do her national service by breeding children”. Many women felt frustrated with this system and statistically the birthrate had not increased. Despite this, the ideology of women’s roles was reshaped in Nazi society had an immense effect on German family and Community
The Nazis saw the Jewish Community as an ‘inferior race’ and blamed them for the loss of the war. Once Hitler came to power in 1933 the Jewish community was increasingly persecuted. The two laws that specifically targeted the Jews were the Nuremberg Laws.These laws were put into effect in 1935 and took away Jews’ German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews. Jewish owned shops were boycotted and vandalised. Jews were not allowed to enter some stores. On the 10th November 1938 the mistreatment escalated in the form of Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). Many Jews were killed or arrested and over 10,000 …show more content…
Women were expected to be devoted housewives and mothers and found themselves being forced to stay home. Within months of Hitler coming to power many women lost their jobs and by 1939 there were very few women left in the workforce. As stated by historian Richard Overy “A woman could do her national service by breeding children”. Many women felt frustrated with this system and statistically the birthrate had not increased. Despite this, the ideology of women’s roles was reshaped in Nazi society had an immense effect on German family and Community