The Nazis Regime: What Was it Like to Live in Nazi Germany?
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- The Nazis Regime: What Was it Like to Live in Nazi Germany?
- What Was the Purpose of the Hitler Youth?
- Boys
- Hitler Youth
- Fourteen and upwards
- Compulsory from 1939
- Military-style uniforms
- Engaged in lots of physical activities
- Prepared to be soldiers
- Hitler Youth
- Girls
- League of German Nations
- Fourteen and upwards
- Trained in domestic skills like sewing
- Prepared to be mothers and wives
- League of German Nations
- Education
- Schools started teaching Nazi propaganda
- Jews were banned from teaching in schools and universities
- Most teachers joined the Nazi Teachers Association and were trained in Nazi methods
- Children had to report teachers who did not use them
- Subjects like History and Biology were rewritten to fit in with Nazi ideology
- Aryans are the supreme race
- Anti-Semitism
- Jews and Communists are to blame for defeat in WWI
- Boys
- How Successful were Nazi Policies Towards Women and the Family?
- A woman's sole purpose was to bare children and to support their families at home
- The Nazis didn't want to give women freedom
- The League of German Maidens spread ideas that it was an honour to produce a large family
- Women were given awards for doing this
- At school, girls would learn subjects like cookery
- It was stressed that they should choose 'Aryan' husbands
- Women were banned from being lawyers in 1936 and the Nazis did their best to stop them following other professions
- The shortage of workers after 1937 meant some women had to go back to work - many Nazis did not like this
- A woman's sole purpose was to bare children and to support their families at home
- Were Most People Better Off Under Nazi Rule?
- Hitler Gave Work to Six Million Unemployed
- Hitler started a huge programme of public works, which gave work to thousands of people
- From 1933, huge motorways, Autobahns, were started - unemployment fell dramatically
- The Nazis did fiddle with the statistics however - leaving out Jews and women
- 'Invisible Unemployment'
- People Were Encouraged to Work by Rewards
- All men between 18 and 25 could be recited into the National Labour Service and given jobs
- The Nazis ditched trade unions - instead workers could join the Nazi Labour Front
- 'Strength Through Joy'
- A scheme which provided workers with cheap holidays and leisure activities
- 'Beauty of Labour'
- A scheme encouraging factory owners to improve conditions for their workers
- The introduction of the Volkswagen (the people's car) was an ambition for people to aim for
- Output increased dramatically and unemployment wads almost completely ended
- Wages were still low however and workers weren't allowed to strike or campaign for better conditions
- Rearmament
- Secretly at first, as it was banned under TTOV
- Generals were replaced with Nazi supporters
- Hermann Goering was in command of the Luftwaffe
- 1935 - conscription is reintroduced
- 1936 - 'Four Year Plan'
- Industry production increased
- Workers had to retrain in jobs that would help the war effort
- Germany had to be self-sufficient
- Hitler Gave Work to Six Million Unemployed
- How Did the Coming of the War Change Life in Germany?
- Transition to War Economy
- More men drafted into the army, so women had to go back to work, especially after 1941 during the Russian campaign
- 1942 - Albert Speer appointed Minister of Armaments
- Weapons production tripled
- Slave labour from conquered countries contributed to war effort
- Industries which weren't related to the war effort were neglected
- German society suffered during the war. Many were killed from Allied bombings
- It was soon a lot harder to turn a blind eye to the bad side of Nazism
- Transition to War Economy
- What Was the Purpose of the Hitler Youth?
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