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