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  • Education
    • Weimar
      • Compulsory 6-10
      • after 10, it costs, have to decide jobs at this age
      • Länder have lots of control
      • Faith schools and non-faith schools
      • catholic groups
    • Nazi
      • Hitler youth became complusory
        • league of german maidens
          • replaced catholic youth groups
      • Change in focus - girls = gymnastics - boys = hiking
      • not controlled by länder = centralisation
        • curriculum changed to be inline with nazi ideology
    • FRG
      • Denazification
        • Schools shut so restructuring could take place
          • this was limited
        • Nazi teachers removed
        • Textbook rewritten
        • education system had not been seriously reformed before 1949
      • education was delegated to the lander under basic law
      • lander became an obstacle to change, e.g. what religion should be taught
      • School crisis 1960s
        • students not getting proper support in uni
      • Education was free until 16
    • Aspects of Life
      • Women
        • Weimar
          • new women - golden era 1920s
            • independent
            • Smoked and drank
            • Wore revealing clothes
            • Gov. condemned them and called them 'unethical'
          • november 1918 elections - had a 90% turnout - 112 elected into 450 seats
          • birth rates dropped from 128 to 59 per 1,000
          • divorce rates rose from 59 to 65 per 100,000
          • had to give up jobs to returning soldiers
            • single mothers were more accepted
              • School day finished at lunchtime so childcare had to take priority
        • Nazi
          • return to the 3 Ks
          • by 1941 they could join the armed forces
          • by 1944 they could fight
          • Mothers day became a national holiday - medals for mothers with lots of children
          • BDM programme had ** men 'mating' with 'pure' women and their children are given to 'fit' parents unable to conceive
          • lost jobs to racially 'pure' women of a higher class to them
        • FRG
          • divorce rates rose 80% - 1945-48
          • Gov. spoke about improving opportunity for women
          • Traditional attitudes returned
          • Legal equality not achieved until 1958
            • Marriage and Family Law 1977 - gave women equal rights in marriage
          • Liberalisation
            • many protests set up
            • issues such as abortion and rights for homosexuals
            • 1958 - women still embracing traditional roles
      • Minorities
        • Weimar
          • gypsies, jews and poles were viewed as inferior
          • tensions between catholicism and protestants
          • 1/3rd of german jews married to non - jews
          • jews made 0.76% of the population
            • resented as many were high up in the financial sector or in politics
        • Nazi
          • Pre WW2
            • 1933 - boycott jewish shops
            • 1934 - t4 programme 400,000 sterilized by 1945
            • 1936 - Nuremberg Laws = jews no longer citizens
            • 1938 - Kristallnacht
          • WW2
            • einsatzgruppen 1939 - locked jews in synagogues and set them alight
            • dug graves, stripped jews and shot them into the grave
            • 'Final solution' - needed more efficient method of killing
            • concentration camps and Ghettos
        • FRG
          • heavy recruitment of guest workers
          • had to be fit for work
          • illegal workers caused problems
          • not have the same rights as Germans
          • brought over families
      • culture
        • Weimar
          • cultural experiments
            • some horrified
            • some rejoiced
          • 'The New Objectivity'
            • demonstrated squalor and poverty
            • wealthy individuals were not a fan of this
          • 'Golden Era' 1920s - Stresemann
          • theatres, orchestras, museums and libraries = spread all around Germany
          • right wing and the elderly did not like the change
        • Nazi
          • supress and censor
          • banned and imprisoned many authors, playwrites etc
          • heavily promoted traditional german culture
          • banned work of 'degenerate' artists
          • created a special organisation to oversee culture and ensure it is inline with their ideology
        • FRG
          • cultural tensions
          • free press was reintroduced
          • wanted to embrace the western culture
          • social movement caused division but drew support from all generations
          • generational tension
            • older generation - wanted 1945 as 'year zero'
              • what did you do in the great war daddy? - british propaganda -
            • younger generation wanted to confront the past
  • not controlled by länder = centralisation
    • curriculum changed to be inline with nazi ideology
  • teachers were retrained 1957- 97% had joined the national socialist league
    • Jewish teachers removed
    • Nazi
      • Hitler youth became complusory
        • league of german maidens
          • replaced catholic youth groups
      • Change in focus - girls = gymnastics - boys = hiking

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