Life in Nazi Germany
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Religion
- 1930s - most Germans Christian and loyal to Church
- Hitler wanted religion to comply with the State
- Catholic Church persecuated
- July 1933 - Concordat
- Role in education restricted
- 1936 - Crucifixes removed
- 1935 - Priests arrested
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Religion
Prostestant Church controlled
- Confessional Church
- Opposed Hitler
- Pastor Martin Niemoller
- Him + other arrested and put in Concentration Camps
- Reich Church
- Supported
- Ludwig Muller
- Wore Nazi uniforms
- Gave Nazi salute
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Youth Opposition
Swing Youth
- Middle class
- Benny Goodman
- Long hair
- Swing/Jazz music
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Youth Opposition
White Rose
- Hans and Sophie Scholl
- Both medical students
- Based in Munich
- DIstributed anti-Nazi leaflets
- Anonymous
- Funded by lecturer
- Both caught, tortured, and killed
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Youth Opposition
Edelweiss Pirates
- Working class
- Different groups/sections
- Sheltered CC escapees
- Ambushed Hitler Youth
- Killed Cologne - Gestapo leader
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Work and Home
Women
- Role: to provide children
- Female employment reduced
- League of German Maidens
- Awards for large families
- Financial aid for couples
- No make-up
- Plain clothing
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Work and Home
Unemployment
- Program of public works
- Construction of autobahns
- National Labour Service
- All men aged 18-25
- Military conscription
- Invisible unemployment
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Youth Movement
Hitler Youth
- Founded 1926
- Boys aged 14+
- Compulsory from 1936
- Military-style uniform
League of German Maidens
- Girls aged 14-18
- Trained in domestic skills
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Youth Movement
Education
- Nazi Teachers' Association
- Taught Nazi methods
- Subjects re-written
- e.g. History -> WWI
- Physical Education important
- train for war
- Anti-Nazi and Jewish books burnt
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Discrimination
- Cleanse Germany of inferior groups
- Gypsies, Slavs, Black, mentally ill, disabled, Jewish, homosexual
- Began sterilising
- Try to wipe out inferior groups
T4 Program
- Autumn 1939
- Systematic gasing
- Lasted until 1941
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Discrimination
Jewish Discrimination
- 1933 - Nation boycott
- Legal system used to persecute
- Nuremburg Laws 1935
- Protection of German blood and honour
- Jews made subjects
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Discrimination
Kristallnacht
- 9th-10th November 1938
- German diplomat murdered by a Jew in Paris
- Goebbels uses murder as excuse for terror campaign
- 815+ shops destroyed
- 191 synagogues burnt
- 20,000 Jews arrested
- Claimed to be a spontaneous reaction
- Planned and organised
- Few ordinary Germans took part
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Economy
The New Plan
- Dr Hjalmar Schacht
- Reduce unemployment
- Autarky
- Trade agreements
- Production increased
- by 50%
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Economy
Four-Year Plan
- Hermann Goring
- Prepare for war
- Geared towards rearment
- Businesses persuaded to produce synthetics
- Germany still dependent on foreign imports
- Hermann Goring Works
- Mining / metal works
- Forced labour
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Economy
Labour Service (RAD)
- 1933
- Public work
- Voluntary until 1935
- Serve 6 months
- Not popular --> organised like the army
- Autobahn project
- Rearmament
- Military conscription in 1935
- 1.3 million in 1939
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Economy
Invisible Unemployment
- Didn't really reduce employment
- Changed number of unemployed
- Women + Jews forced to give up work
- Part-time recorded as full-time
- Concentration camps/**/army not considered "real" employment
- RAD not recorded as unemployed
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Economy
Standard of Living
- Wages rose, as did hours
- 43hrs to 49hrs
- Price of common goods rose
- 20% between 1933 and 1939
- Real wages didn't increase
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Economy
Labour Front
- DAF
- Trade Union
- Set workers' rights, terms, minimum wage
- Mixed benefits
- Workers unable to go against terms
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Economy
Strength Through Joy
- Division of DAF
- Make workers happy
- Incentive to work
- could be rewarded with plays or cruises
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Economy
Beauty of Labour
- SdA
- Provide better working facilities
- Hope employees would work longer
- Workers expected to build facilities themselves
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Economy
Volkswagen Scheme
- 5 marks per week
- Incentive
- Allow common people a chance to have a car
- Factories turned to rearmament in 1938
- No one received a car
- No one refunded
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