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- Churches
- Protestants
- Reich Church - united 28 state churches which
enabled them to control the messages sent out
making it an easier influence
- Rebelion through creating the
Confessional Church - No Nazi
influences, so indoctrinated by
religion closing it down would
create more opposition
- German Faith Movement created by
Nazis - alternative pagen religion - Mein
Kampf = Bible, Swadtika = Cross
- Aims: influence younger children as they are the future of
Germany and the Third Reich, elders could not be controlled as
easily
- German Christians - 600,000
supporters, pressure group of
Nazi supporters, wore SS/SA
uniforms during service
- Catholics
- Concordat - would not oppose
the Regime as long as the
regime did not interfere with the
Church
- The pope was a more threatening
figure head who had strong
powers over many German people
as well as internationally so had to
keep him on side
- Concordat fell through so Pope issued
the Papal Encryprical which was spread
across the country and the world
denouncing Hitler and the Nazis
- Reactions
- Italy controlled by
Mussolini who had
relations with Hitler
- Britain had the
policy of
appeasement
- Internationally Germany was a
good trade industrial power so
war was not appealing
- Workers / Volksgemeinschaft
- DAF: German Labour Front
- Strength through Joy
- Beauty of Labour
- Reich Food Estate
- Youth
- Organisations
- Hitler Youth - war games, indoctrinating with Nazi ideology,
swear personal oath to Hitler - - Very popular to begin with as
teenagers liked to go against their parents views but soon
began to get boring and kids skipped meetings
- Late 30's became beaurocratic and militarised
- League of German Maidens - crafts and
teaching how to be good ideological Aryan
women, Kinde, Kuche, Kirche
- Catholic Youth Organisations banned
- Educations
- Teachers - had to join Nazi teachers union, surveillance of lessons,
- Under the reestablishment of proffesssional civil
service '33 many teachers dismissed on the ground
of political unreliability or because they were jewish
- Subjects
- P.E. was a focus point, train for
army, also meant less educated
and became stupid
- Biology - about blood lines and racial purity
- History - on the betrayal of November Criminals and
the hatred of Treaty of Versailles
- Maths
- War calculations - on bombing and timings
- How much it would cost to build a lunatic
asylum compared to houses for working class
- Reformed textbooks
- Schools
- NAPOLA
- Aged 10-18, boarding school for military style education, heavy
emphasis on physical education and drills, manual labour and
political indoctrination, under SS control '36, 21 schools by '38
- Adolf Hitler Schools
- Set up after '37 by leaders of Hitler
Youth, more elite, between 12-18
- Oldensburgen
- 1,000 students aged 25-30 - 'Finishing
schools for the future leadership'
- University
- Students had to attend weekly political
indoctrination and physical training sessions
- 4 month Labour Service - 2 months in an SA camp
- Not encouraged - those who were
mentally aware were physically weak
- Terror
- Police State - legalised terror - incorporated political offences and
'show trialed' people in court - Non Aryans were targeted as shown
in the Nuremburg Laws
- SD - intelligence, SD reports
- SS - Secret service - concentration camps - death units
- 60,000 expelled from 33-35 as a
result of alcoholism, homosexuality
or opportunists
- Himmler - 'merciless sword of jusitce'
- SA - Hitlers personal army
- Ran by Ernst Rohm
- Killed in the Night of the Long
Knives along with multiple senior
officers
- Women
- Kinde, Kuche, Kirche
- Traditional views - no make-up, no hair dye, no smoking and
drinking, long dresses no trousers
- Encouraged to give up their jobs for men
- Medals/Money for having children - SS brothels for those nt married