Life in Nazi Germany
- Created by: Alasdair Olway
- Created on: 24-12-12 11:29
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- Life in Nazi Germany
- The Young
- Education
- Subjects at School
- Race Studies
- History
- P.E.
- Maths
- Sciencees
- Hitler placed a higher value on what the children did rather than what they studied
- Bernhard Rust = Nazi Education Minister
- He controlled the curriculum with 3 key ideas:
- 2. Curriculum: Sports, history, science
- 1. Teachers: All teachers had to be Nazi's
- 3. Specialist schools: He had schools built to train future ** soldiers
- He controlled the curriculum with 3 key ideas:
- Subjects at School
- Education
- Resistance Movements
- Edelweiss Pirates
- They resisted by listening to jazz music, drinking alcohol and not following Nazi Ideals
- They also beated up Nazi officials
- In 1944, they killed the Gestapo chief. 12 of them were publicly hanged
- White rose Group
- They were a group of University students from Munich
- They published anti-Nazi leaflets
- They were lead by Hans and Sophie Scholl
- They were a group of University students from Munich
- The Army
- The July bomb plot
- A group of Nazi army officials called the Kreisau Circle, planted a bomb
- At the last second the bomb was moved and Hitler survived the blast
- A group of Nazi army officials called the Kreisau Circle, planted a bomb
- The July bomb plot
- Edelweiss Pirates
- Control of the German Peoples
- **
- They were at first Hitler's elite
- They consisted of two units
- The deathshead unit were the leaders of concentration camps etc
- The Waffen-** were the ** that were mainly in the armed forces
- They were a group of highly loyal, Aryan Nazi's
- Concentration Camps
- They helped Hitler by getting rid of many opposition including communists and jews
- They helped further because they sent out a clear message:
- Anyone who refused to conform to the ideology being put forward by the state would be imprisoned
- The Gestapo
- They were the secret police of Nazi Germany
- They used informers to get information
- They helped Hitler by putting fear into the hearts of the Germans so that they would follow the Nazi's
- The Judicial System/Police
- The judges HAD to be Nazi's. So did the police.
- If a Nazi was arrested then the judge and jury were very lenient towards him.
- However if a non-Nazi was arrested he/she was severly punished
- This meant that the public saw that the Nazi's never did wrong
- However if a non-Nazi was arrested he/she was severly punished
- **
- Persecution
- Blacks
- Jews
- They were the most presecuted because Hitler felt they were sub'human and not worthy of anything
- Also he believed that the Jews were partly responsible for all the bad that had happened to Germany over the past 2 decades
- This is an example of scapegoating.Blaming someone else for your problems
- Gypsies (Sinti and Roma)
- They were persecuted because Hitler believed they did not belong anywhere as they were always on the move
- Homosexuals
- They were persecuted because their love went against Hitlers belief of a traditional family
- One reason was they could not have childeren
- They were persecuted because their love went against Hitlers belief of a traditional family
- Drunks, Drug Addicts, Homeless
- They made the German people look bad
- The Treatment of the Workers
- Treatment of the Workers
- DAF = German Labour Front
- Lead by Dr Robert Ley
- Replaced the trade unions
- SDA = Beauty of Labour
- Improves attitudes to work
- Encouraged emploers to improve working conditions
- Examples: Hot meals in factories, air conditioning
- KDF = Strength Through Joy
- This organised events for workers to do in their leisure time
- Examples: plays, cruises, concerts, sporting events etc
- This organised events for workers to do in their leisure time
- RAD = Reich Labour Front
- After 1935 they RAD made it compulsory to do 6 months labour service
- This went along with the compulsory 18 months in the army
- Hitler used these to lower German unemployment rates
- This went along with the compulsory 18 months in the army
- After 1935 they RAD made it compulsory to do 6 months labour service
- DAF = German Labour Front
- Treatment of the Workers
- The Young
- Keyterms
- Volk
- People
- Volksgemeinschaft
- Peoples Community
- Weltanschung
- World View
- Blut und Boden
- Blood and Soil
- Volk
- They helped further because they sent out a clear message:
- Anyone who refused to conform to the ideology being put forward by the state would be imprisoned
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