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Life in Nazi Germany
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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
- Trade unions destroyed
- 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
- Put to work in government schemes
- Jews
- At first:
- Jews didn't think he would be that bad
- Some voted for him
- Jews didn't think he would be that bad
- 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
- Jews couldn't marry non-jews
- Kristallnacht - 1938
- Started with a Polish Jew killing a German diplomat
- Goebbels made it happen
- Had an affair
- Wanted to please Hitler
- Had an affair
- 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
- Property confiscated
- At first:
- 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
- Encouraged to have children
- Youth
- Focused on them - coninue Reich
- Propaganda for them
- Youth groups
- Very fun
- Outdoor activities
- Taught Nazi ideas
- Small businesses
- 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
- Organised free / heavily subsidised activities for workers
- Happy workers = higher productivity
- Also eliminate opposition
- Beauty of Labour
- RAD
- All 18-25 year old men had to work
- 6 Months
- Badly-paid
- Maual labour
- All 18-25 year old men had to work
- Mixed effects
- Groups
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
- Solved economic crisis
- 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
- Unemployment down a lot
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
- Nazis subsidised them
- Films
- Mostly normal films
- Encouraged Nazi ideals
- Some were very propagandised
- e.g. The Eternal Jew
- People loved them
- More believable
- Mostly normal films
- 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
- Controlled actors, musicians and writers
- 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
- 1939 - all Church schools abolished
- Bad
- Propaganda
Opposition
- There was very little
- Scared
- Gestapo
- Happy with them
- Didn't know
- Scared
- 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
- Like an Anti Hitler Youth
- White Rose
- Hated treatment of non-Aryans
- Based in Munich
- University students
- Professor as well
- Distributed pamphlets
- University students
- Leaders killed
- Still famous today
- Swing Youth
- 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
- There was very little
WW2
- Food
- At first rationed well
- By 1945 there was no food
- Had to rely on black market / scavenging
- For some better than before
- By 1945 there was no food
- At first rationed well
- Bombing
- 1942 - 1945 was really bad
- Cities decimated
- 500 000 dead
- Supply lines gone
- 7M homeless
- 1942 - 1945 was really bad
- Army
- Conscription from 1945
- 2M in army
- Blomberg-Fritsch crisis 1937
- Doubted army's readiness
- Many deserted
- Especially fighting USSR
- Conscription from 1945
- Economy
- Men at war
- Women had to work
- Rapidly got worse
- Men at war
- Turning point - 1941
- Attacked USSR
- Hitler comitted suicide 30 Apr 1945
- War ended 8th May
- Food
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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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