Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nazi domestic policies 1933-39
- Young people
- Education
- Teachers joined the Nazi Teachers'
League
- Curriculum devoted to preparing
students for future roles
- Physical education 15% of
curriculum - healthy, fit Germans
- Boys - emphasis on military, Girls - emphasis on home crafts + cookery
- Race studies + eugenics lessons
introduced
- Textbooks rewritten, Mein Kampf
standard
- Youth organisations
- Membership compulsory 1936
- Boys: German Young People (DJV) 10-14, Hitler Youth
(HJ) 14-18 - emphasis on military skills + Nazi ideology
- Girls: League of Young Girls (JMB) 10-14, League of German
Maidens (BDM) 14-18 - similar, more domestic skills than
military
- Women
- Traditional domestic role: Kinder,
Kuche, Kirche
- Reduced numbers of married women in employment (reversed in 1937
due to rearmament)
- Increase in birth rate promoted by
marriage loans + medals
- Smoking + drinking discouraged
- Appearance plain - long hair + skirts, no make-up
- Employment
- Rose to nearly 100% in 1938
- Labour Service Corps - all men
18-25 served for 6 months
- Projects for unemployed:
autobahns + public works
- Conscription introduced for 2 years in 1935
- Rearmament - jobs in heavy industry
- Invisible unemployment: Jews +
married women struck off roll
- Standard of living
- Decreased
- Labour Front removed workers'
rights - no strikes
- Longer working hours + cost
of living higher
- Policies (SdA + KdF) not always effective
(required worker input)
- Volkswagen scheme not put in place -
money never refunded
- Increased
- Wages higher
- Strength through Joy (KdF) - cheap leisure
activities (Prora holiday camp etc.)
- Beauty of Labour (SdA) - improved working conditions
- Volkswagen cars promised + autobahns
improved transport
- Minority groups
- Slavs
- Romani
- Homosexuals
- Mentally/Physical disabled
- Methods: sterilisation,
euthanasia, concentration camps
- Jews
- 1933: Boycott of businesses
- 1934: Removal from high-powered jobs
- 1935: Nuremberg Laws denied citizenship
+ marriage
- Star of David introduced - mandatory
- 1938: Enforced names (Israel + Sara)
- 9 Nov 1938: Kristallnacht - fierce attack on businesses
+ synagogues due to attack in Parisian embassy