A Social Revolution part three
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- A Social revolution in Germany
- Political and economic intuitions
- The one party state solved all issues of weak coalitions. the Reichstag remained but it only passed seven laws between 1934 and 1945.
- Although the civil service was purged of Jews and opponenet in 1933, it largely remained the same with members who were not Nazis before one party state. this provided continuity with people who knew the system
- Hitler set up several ministries some which took over established ones and some that were completely new e.g. Reich propaganda ministry
- Hitler left the details of leadership unclear to inspire competition - reminding them they should not feel to settled in their position and they owed it to Hitler.
- the Gestapo and ** stepped up control of the population. membership increased from 240,00 in 1939 to over a million in 1944
- Culture
- the Nazi policy of Gleichschaltung showed the Nazis wanted to create their own culture which was heavily influenced by propaganda saying Germany was the real culture creator and had been led astray by Jewish influence
- In 1933 with the help of the Nazi student organization there was a burning of about 25,000 books that were unsound. Towns also held their own book burnings
- Art. music, theatre, radio and magazines among others were all censored
- strength through Joy hel;d trip to art galleries etc. so everyone could be invilved in culture for example, in 1937 the degenerate art exhibition in mUNICH.
- in 1933 the RKK was set up to control creativve arts and stop culture being elitist. Nationalist and realistic art was acceptaboe
- Sport was encouraged for a healthy nation and strong Aryans were often depicted. Holidays and important dates were rearranged e.g. mothers was on Hitler's mother's birthday.
- The Swing Youth challenged the Nazi image of youth by growing their hair and wearing fashionable clothes. They also listened to swing music, which was seen by the Nazis as Black music and met at secret dance halls. This often led to clashes with the Hitler Youth and the security forces.
- Members of the Edelweiss Pirates defied restrictions on movement by going on hiking and camping trips. While on these trips they would have enough freedom to sing songs banned by the Nazis – mainly ‘degenerate’ blues or jazz songs that had filtered over from France. They could have open discussions on topics the likes of which would have been forbidden in the cities and which informants would almost certainly have overheard.
- Political and economic intuitions
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