How did Nazi economic and social policy affect life in Germany?

How did Nazi economic and social policy affect life in Germany?

1. Unemployment solved

   • Conscription
   • Rearment
   • Public Works
   • Women bribed out of work - not counted under unemployment figures
     • Jews sacked - also not counted
   • 'Work shy' sent to concentration camp

2. The Four Year Plan

   • Preparing for war
   • Produce arms
   • Ensure country was self-sufficient

3. Strength Trough Joy Movement

   • Cheap cruise holidays, travel opportunities, building health clubs, organising coach trips, trips to the theatre, cinema, skiing, sailing Sports
   • Purpose - To support the Führer and thank him, to keep everyone happy after abolishing the trade unions
   • Dr Robert Ley
   • Popular schemes was the Volkswagen

4. Treatment of women and young people

   • 'KKK'
     • Kinder – children
     • Küche - kitchen
     • Kriche – church
   • Received a high standard of education
   • Could earn good wages in good jobs
   • Could vote
   • Mother's Cross was awarded to women who had given birth to many children

5. Lebensborn

   • Against the law for healthy mothers to have an abortion

6. Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring

   • Sterilising women who were 'unsuitable' to have children, eg non-Aryan women

7. Education

   • Conditioning
     • Every subject was presented from a Nazi perspective
   • Aim
     • Separate Jews from other children
     • Encourage hatred towards the Jews
     • Prevent Jews from getting an education.

8. The Hitler Youth

   • Established in 1925
   • 1932 - 108,000 memebers
   • 1936 - Hitler Youth Act passed
     • Made it hard not to join
   • 1939 - 8 million