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Life in Nazi Germany
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Covering the conditions and policies in Nazi Germany, including the persecution of the Jews and WWII. For GCSE history students with AQA. Enjoy!
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Life in Nazi Germany
How were ordinary people treated?
Groups
Small businesses
Encouraged
Value of trade doubled
Less competition
New department stores banned
Jewish businesses closed
More profit
Big businesses
Trade unions destroyed
Benefits them
Manager salaries rose
Benefitted from rearmament
Less freedom
Had to produce what Nazis wanted
Government took over several aspects
Prices
Wages
Profits
Imports
Farmers
Nazis liked them
Debts written off
Food prices up
Profits
Shortage of workers
They all went to cities
Nazis set rules
e.g. hens had to lay 65 eggs per year
Farmers didn't like
Unskilled workers
Put to work in government schemes
e.g. building motorways
Low wages
No choice
At least they could work
Cheaper housing
Jews
At first:
Jews didn't think he would be that bad
Some voted for him
Initial persecution
Propaganda
Businesses boycotted - 1933
Jews removed from Civil Service
Jewish culture (plays etc) banned
Nuremberg Laws - 1935
Jews couldn't marry non-jews
Stop German blood being 'tainted'
Jews were no longer citizens
Couldn't vote
Banned from many jobs
3+ Jewish grandparents = Jewish
Kristallnacht - 1938
Started with a Polish Jew killing a German diplomat
Goebbels made it happen
Had an affair
Wanted to please Hitler
Shops and homes ransacked
Synagogues burnt
Some outrage
Decided to be quieter about it later
Post 1939
Property confiscated
Forced to live in ghettos
Wansee conference - 1942
'Final solution'
Moved into death camps
6 million killed
Moved to concentration camps - 1941
Women
Encouraged to have children
Loans written off - more for each child
Medals
Encouraged to get married
Given loans when married
Also encouraged to work
Favoured Aryans
Youth
Focused on them - coninue Reich
Propaganda for them
Youth groups
Very fun
Outdoor activities
Taught Nazi ideas
The DAF
All workers had to join
Put to work
Motorways
Hospitals
Schools
Workers and employees joined
Disputes settled
Had organisations to win over workers
Beauty of Labour
Persuaded employers to improve working conditions
Made workers happier
Strength through Joy (KDF)
Organised free / heavily subsidised activities for workers
Holidays
Cinema
Cruises
Happy workers = higher productivity
Also eliminate opposition
RAD
All 18-25 year old men had to work
6 Months
Badly-paid
Maual labour
Mixed effects
Economy
Hitler had promised a lot - people woud be angry if he couldn't deliver
He needed money to go to war
The New Plan - 1934
Made by Schacht
Recover economy
Limited imports
Trade agreements
Gov.t spending on industries
Unemployment reduced
Compulsory labour
Army conscription
Wait to rearm
Success?
Solved economic crisis
World economy also recovering
Didn't rearm fast enough
Ditched
The Four Year Plan
Led by Goering
Kinda like New Plan, but focused on rearmament
Hitler happy
Tighter control on everything economy-related
'Arms not butter'
Results
Unemployment down a lot
Jews removed from figures
Production up
Better trade balance
Debt up quickly
Diet worse
Eggs down by 41%
Could have done better if they were less focused on rearmament
Reducing opposition
Propaganda
Led by Goebbels
Newspapers
Nazis took control
Not many people read them
Radio
Nazis subsidised them
At end, 70% had them
Couldn't pick up foreign stations
Employers had to put up loudspeakers
Propaganda everywhere
Films
Mostly normal films
Encouraged Nazi ideals
Some were very propagandised
e.g. The Eternal Jew
People loved them
More believable
Festivals and celebrations
Important Nazi days celebrated
German Culture Day
Nuremberg rally
Show off military
N. Korea style
People actually liked them
Reich Chamber of Culture
Controlled actors, musicians and writers
Compulsory
Music
Traditional folk music
No Jazz - 'black'
Theatre
German history
Reinforced Nazi beliefs
Terror
See consolidation of power mindmap
Church
Bad
People should worship him
Can't be a German AND Christian
Could breed opposition
Agreements with Church
Couldn't risk abolishing them
Concordat 1933
Agreement with Pope
He leaves Catholics alone
Pope leaves him alone
Unification of Protestant Church
Nazi leader Mueller
Nazification of Churches
Began 1935
Churches more pro-Nazi
Nazi bishop
Nazi services
Churches became less important
1939 - all Church schools abolished
People didn't care
However huge uproar at removing crosses from schools
Nazis simply gave them back
Still some power over Nazis
Opposition
There was very little
Scared
Gestapo
Happy with them
Didn't know
Youth
Swing Youth
They liked jazz
They passively resisted
Listened to jazz
Wore English clothes
Very little effect
Punished severely
Concentration camps
Hair cut off
Physical punishment
Edelweiss Pirates
Like an Anti Hitler Youth
Did HY-style activities
Beat up HY patrols
Did some extreme stuff
Killed head of Cologne Gestapo
Punished VERY severely
Members were hung
White Rose
Hated treatment of non-Aryans
Based in Munich
University students
Professor as well
Distributed pamphlets
Leaders killed
Still famous today
Army
Some deserted
Bomb plot 1944
Operation Valkyrie
Stauffenberg and a bunch of army guys tried to blow Hitler up
Failed
Leaders killed
SS took it over
Church
Detested Nazi policies
e.g. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Preached against Nazis
Got evidence against Nazis
Rescued Jews from camps
Killed
WW2
Food
At first rationed well
By 1945 there was no food
Had to rely on black market / scavenging
For some better than before
Bombing
1942 - 1945 was really bad
Cities decimated
500 000 dead
Supply lines gone
7M homeless
Army
Conscription from 1945
2M in army
Blomberg-Fritsch crisis 1937
Doubted army's readiness
Many deserted
Especially fighting USSR
Economy
Men at war
Women had to work
Rapidly got worse
Turning point - 1941
Attacked USSR
Hitler comitted suicide 30 Apr 1945
War ended 8th May
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