German Society by 1945
- Created by: caitrmills
- Created on: 05-05-18 20:45
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- Society by 1945
- Hitler wanted to create a national people's community or Volksgemeinschaft
- this was also linked to Hitler's racial theories
- this ideology was reinforced through extensive propaganda
- The regime didn't manage to destroy people's perceptions of class or loyalty to the Church
- DAF
- replaced the trade unions which were now banned
- included workers and employers
- ran training courses and offered various perks
- RAD
- 6 months
- compulsory for 18-25yr olds
- basic living allowance
- military uniform and exercise
- education system and Nazi youth movements were key in moulding young people
- they became prepared to devote themselves to the glories of the nation, racial purity and the war
- young people
- differentiation between the male and the female curriculum
- indoctrinated with the Nazi ideology
- Nazism was anti-intellectual - in education emphasis was placed on preparing people fro their roles in Nazi society
- young people were encouraged to show uncritical devotion to Hitler an the State and were encouraged to accept discipline
- KDF
- Strength through joy
- organised workers leisure time
- beauty of work organisation ran propaganda campaigns to popularise good working habits
- Women
- marriages had to be genetically pure
- unproductive marriages could be terminated
- encouraged/pushed into motherhood
- encouraged to give up work
- some laws forced them out of their jobs
- Roma and Sinti were persecuted and seen as an inferior race
- included in the Nuremburg Law of 1935
- this banned their marriage to Aryans
- included in the Nuremburg Law of 1935
- the disabled were portrayed as burdens on society
- in the summer of 1939 a euthanasia programme was set up
- Jews
- Kristallnacht 9-10th November 1938
- war conquests added more Jews to the German Empire - subsequently they were forced into Ghettos
- discriminated against through the Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service and the Nuremburg Laws
- the Wannsee Conference of January 1942 came up with the Final Solution in which 6 million Jews were gassed in camps like Aushwitz, Chelmo, Majdanek and Treblinka
- Hitler wanted to create a national people's community or Volksgemeinschaft
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