Weimar and Nazi Germany overview
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- Weimar and Nazi Germany
- Nazi control and dictatorship
- Hitler dismantled German dimocracy
- Forced the passing of the enabling act through the reichstag
- Gave him unlimited power for four years
- Eliminated any potential sources of opposition
- Other political parties
- Trade unions
- Ernest Rohm (Leader of the SA)
- Forced the passing of the enabling act through the reichstag
- President Hindenburg died in 1934
- Hitler declared himself Fuhrer
- Totalitarian state
- Government controlled every aspect in life
- Control established
- Cencorship
- Propoganda
- opposition
- Everyday life controlled by Nazi ideals
- Used three weapons to control people
- Schutzstaffel (**)
- ensured the population remained undet control
- any potential threats to the Nazis were dealt with
- Oversaw the Gestapo (secret police)
- Spied on the German people
- ran concentration camps
- Control of the legal system
- All judges had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Fuhrer
- All lawyers had to join the Nazi Lawyers' association
- Made harder to defend people placed on trial for suspected crimes
- Death penalty used more widley than before
- Propoganda and cencorship
- Joseph Goebbels ran the Ministry of Propoganda
- Job to convince the German people to embrace Nazi rule
- Control of press, radio and the arts, rallies and sports events
- Joseph Goebbels ran the Ministry of Propoganda
- Schutzstaffel (**)
- Police state and laws protect the Nazis against opposition
- Hitler dismantled German dimocracy
- Life in Nazi Germany
- Economy
- Hitler claimed that he had rapidly reduced unemployement figures under the Nazis
- National service meant young men were not counted as being unemloyed
- Women and jews left out of figures
- Living standards didn't improve
- Workers expected to attend schemes like Strength Through Joy
- Gave them cheap holidays instead of having trade union rights
- Social Policy
- Women
- Expected to embrace life around the '3 Ks' of Kinder, Kuche, Kirche (Children, Kitchen and Church)
- Duty to produce and raise children
- Encouraged to give up work and recieve loans and awards for having lots of children
- Young people
- Target for Nazis propaganda
- School curriculum altered
- Promoted Nazi ideology
- Expected to join Nazi youth groups such as Hitler Youth and League of the German maids
- Control or limit Christianity
- official church- Reich Church.
- restrictions on worship
- Women
- Persecution
- Nazi ideology focused that the Aryan of Northern Europe was superior to all others and some races were sub-human
- any weakness in the Aryan race, like disabled people, should be weeded out to maintain racial purity
- Many groups who the Nazis did not like weretargeted and persecuted
- Euthanasia
- imprisonment in concentration camps
- Loss of civil rights
- Jews
- Loss of German citicenship and civil rights
- Holocaust
- Loss of 6 million Jews
- Economy
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