history, hitlers germany key issue 3

social policy

• honour and pride was restored but people lived in a police state, everything controlled by the nazis even wealth and leisure
• nazis treated its people like children, believing they knew what was best.
• expected people to behave properly, called paternalism

economic policy

• 1933 5 million people were unemployed
• hitler promised to find jobs
• schacht was minister of the economy had a new plan to reduce unemployment, build up arments industry and make germany self sufficient
• national labour service: men aged 18-25 to dig ditches and plant forests earned pocket money
• public works programme: build motorways, hospitals, schools sports stadiums. these created thousands of jobs
• re-arment, 1935 conscription introduced, army increased by 1 million 1935-38, arms industry grew, women were forced out of work to look after families, jews were dismi**ed from jobs, 1939 no unemployment
• spending caused inflation a crisis would of occured if hitler had not gone to war.

self sufficiency

• hitler wanted germany to be self sufficient, a policy called autarky
• 1936: a 4 year plan germany to produce all its own raw materials and develop new synthetic material but 1/3 of raw materials still imported by 1939
• lebensraum- living space: take over countries with raw materials economic and foreign policy began to overlap

women

• kinder, kurche, kuchen
• 1933 law for encouragement of marriage, 1000 marks for married couples keep 250 marks for every child you have
• homes for unmarried women so they can meet racially pure ** men
• womens role was to stay at home and look after children
• women…