Germany 1890-1945 (6)
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- Created on: 07-11-19 18:47
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- Germany 1890-1945 (6)
- Nazis and the Church (2)
- Nazis took over Protestant Church and remade it as Reich Church - loyal to Nazis, led by Bishop Müller
- Faith movement - Nazis tried to make a new religion based on paganism and love of nature (quite unsuccessful)
- Jehovah's Witnesses resisted the Nazis and refused to recognise their authority above God. < 30k sent to concentration camps
- Racial policy
- Spread his policy through propaganda and media
- Discrimination and boycott of Jewish shops 1933 onward
- Separation under Nuremburg Laws 1935
- Stopped Aryans marrying outside their race
- Persecuting /attacking Jews e.g. Kristellnacht Nov. 1938
- Homes etc were destroyed and 100s killed. 30k Jews sent to concent. camps
- Extermination - kept in ghettoes then ** shot 1mil Jews.
- Final Solution Jan 1942 for extermination camps - 6mil Jews killed and 2mil others killled
- T4 euthanasia programme forcibly sterilised 400k disabled people and killed 200k
- Opposition to Nazis
- Mostly lack of opposition due to use of terror and media
- Edelweiss Pirates - working class teens who did not join and even attacked HJ groups
- Murdered a Gestapo so 13 of EP were executed
- White Rose Group - students led by Hans and Sophie Scholl, leaders caught and executed in 1943
- Printed anti-war leaflets
- Swing Youth - middle class, rebelled by engaging in counter culture
- Army officers plotted to kill Hitler in failed 1944 July Bomb Plot
- Impact of WWII
- Initial support due to propaganda
- Life became more difficult as war continued
- food and fuel shortages by 1942 (rations)
- Growth of the Black Market
- Boys drafted into fire service and helped defend Berlin
- Girls helped in evacuation camps and harvest
- 600k civilians killed and 750k injured in bombing raids
- food and fuel shortages by 1942 (rations)
- Conditions worsened, 2mil soldiers killed and 4mil injured
- Nazis and the Church (2)
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