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  • Volksgemeinschaft
    • Youth
      • Policies
        • non-Nazi teachers sacked - 97% belonged to National Socialist Teacher's League
        • Focus on German, Biology were v important (re-written)
        • Elite schools established to propagate Nazi ideology to future elite e.g National Political Education Institutes and (10) Adolf Hitler schools
        • Dec 1936 - compulsory membership of Hitler Youth - 7.5mil by 1939
          • Led: Baldur von Shirach
      • Young Girls League (ages 10-14) - over 10k by 1933
        • Hitler Youth - strength, exciting actives (camping, hiking), marching in uniforms and belonging attracted demoralised youth
      • Limitations
        • Intro of curfews, prohibitions of smoking/drinking provoked more alienation at a time when youth should have been mobilised to fight
        • formation of rebel 'pirate gangs' e.g swing movement - having sex + playing jazz
    • Workers
      • Public works and creation of jobs
        • central part of unemployment plan - 1bil RM invested into schemes
          • building roads (autobahns), canals, houses
        • Tax concessions - 40% increase in car production
        • Voluntary Labour Service - by 1935 employed 500k men
        • Unemployment fallen to 2.4m by 1934
        • Reich Labour Service - 18-25 y/o men had to do 6 months work service - poorly paid, hard labour + conditions - but absorbed lot of unemployed
        • most workers earning 20% more in 1939 (than 39)
      • German Labour Front
        • Independent TU replaced by DAF - under nazi control (wages, hours etc) + mandatory
        • 5m- 22m, 1933-39
        • Working hours 43-47, 33-39
        • Promoted by campaigns of better conditions - good ventilation, lighting, hot meals and activities
        • unrest dealt with harshly - strikes 1936 in Berlin
      • Strength Through Joy
        • State welfare organisation - support workers, improve conditions + morale
          • incentives for loyal workers - state-paid holidays, sport facilities in break
            • beauty of labour SdA organisation
        • KdF holidays - 2.3m 1934, 10.3 1938
      • Middle-class Mittelstand - employers encouraged to eat in same canteen
        • Courts of Honour - resolves disputes between worker and employer
    • Farmers*
      • Production 20% 1928-38
      • Reich Food State - each hen had to lay 65 eggs/year
      • Tariffs reduces imports
      • Reich Entailed farm laws e.g banned division of farms

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