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Nazi Germany

Under Nazi rule, Hitler aimed to unify Germans into a single national community, downplaying traditional social divisions and urging citizens to prioritize the nation's interest. Despite efforts to support farming communities through measures such as the Reich Food Estate and the Reich Entailed Farm Law, many farmers faced challenges like rural depopulation and financial difficulties.

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany 1933-1945

Women

Prominent women
Gertrude Scholz-Klink

Head of the Nazi Women's bureau

Leni Reifenstahl

High profile film producer

Limitations
Discrimination against women applicants for jobs was encouraged
Married professional woman was forced to give up their jobs
During 1930s, women had to start working
They had to continue with their family's responsibility
Nazis were a male-dominated organization
Many women agreed with it

Hitler offered finantial incentives for married couples to have at least 4 children

If couples got 8, they would get a "Gold cross"

Couples were given priviledge seats at Nazis meetings

Young people

Youth movement against Hitler (not political opponents of the Nazis)
The Edelweiss Pirates

Nazi's intervention

Pirates helped to shelter army deserters and escaped prisoners

Stole armaments and attacked the Gestapo

12 Pirates were hanged in 1944

Pirates could be arrested or ignored

Future workers and soldiers were needed

Gestapo broke up 28 groups containing 739 in 1942

Much freer towards sex

Sang songs to mock Germany

Aged between 14 and 17

Working-class teenagers (boys and girls)

The "Swing" movement

Talked about and enjoyed sex

Accepted Jews at their clubes

Listened to English and American music

Middle-class teenagers

Schools made children be loyal to Hitler
Parents were less loyal thay their children

Propaganda, culture and mass media

Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Englishtement and Propaganda
Believed in Hitler as a saviour

Used every resource to make poeple loyal to Hitler

The 1936 Olympics

Great opportutnity to

Show Germany as a modern, civilized and successful country

New technology was used

A new stadium was built

Show Aryans were superior

USA boycott the games against the Nazis

Germany included one Jew in their team

Great propaganda within Germany and internationally

Media

New technology

Cheap radios were sold so people could listen to Hitler's speeches and Pro-Nazi messages everywhere

If poeple coouldn't afford radios

Loud speakers were placed in public areas

Jazz music was banned because it was "black" music. Black people were conidered inferior

Posters proclaming the success of Hitler and the Nazis were posted everywhere

Films and commercials had to carry a Pro-Nazi message

Foreign films were avoided

Paintins should promote the Nazi message

Books should promote Nazi message

High-profile "Book-burning" in 1933

The Nuremberg rallies

Took place every summer

Public event where bands, marches, flying displays and Hitler's speeches were shown

He wanted others to believe this too

Decided what German people should or should not hear

Churches

Little opposition between Nazis and Protestants
Exceptions

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hanged in April 1945

Arrested in October 1942

Helped Jews escape from Germany

Involved with members of army's services who were secretly opposed to Hitler

Preached against the Nazis

Gestapo stopped him in 1937

Helped Niemöller

Pastor Martin Niemöller

Created an altrnative Protestant Church to the Reich Church

Spent 1938-1945 in a concentration camp

Catholic Bishop Galen

Wanted Nazis to stop killing mentally ill and physically disabled people

Nazis couldn't silence them

Hitler created an alternative church to unite all Protestant Churches
Reich Church
Catholic Church
Concordat with Hitler in 1933

Church must stay out of politics

Causes of little opposition

Propaganda
Hitler's image was perfectly mantained

The July Bomb plot

Some army officers wanted to kill Hitler

The plan failed

Nazis took revenge killing 5000 people

Respected even when Germany was loosing the war

Bad news were desguised with propaganda
Economic fears
Buisnesses feared to go bankrupt
Bosses and workers feared to loose their jobs

Couldn't express opposition

Nazi Successes
German's support

Consequence

Germans felt they were a powerful country again

Causes

Hitler's success in foreign affairs

Discipline was brought back

Restoring traditional values

Economic recovery

Nazis in control

Concenration capms
Ruled by SS Death's Head units
Anti-Nazi citizens were sent to Concentration Camps

Suffered harsh discipline and random executions

Limited food

Force to do hard labour

Police and courts
Oppenents of Nazism rarely recieved farely trial
Ordered to ignore crimes committed by Nazis
Jobs were given to high ranking Nazis
Helped to prop up the Nazi dictatorship
The Gestapo

Arresting citizens on suspiction and send them to Concentration Camps without explanation

Commanded by Reinhard Heydrich
Secret state police
The SS (1925)
Divided into

Waffen-SS

Death's Head units

Responsible of

Slaughter of the Jews

Concentration camps

Composed only by Aryans
Led by Heinrich Himmler
Loyal to Hitler

Did Germans gain from Nazi rule?

Volksgemeinschaft ("national community")
Hitler wanted people to put Germany's interest before their own

Didn't success

Hitler wanted Germans to think they didn't have social groups

They all belonged to a national community

Big buisnesses and the middle classes
Big buisnesses

Didn't had to worry about trade unions or strikes

Consumer goods

Might well struggle

Small buisnesses

Were likely to do well from government orders

The Nazis and the farming communities
Hitler introduces measures to help farmers

Some peasants were not thrilled with the regime's measures

Reich Entailed Farm Law

Banks were unwilling to lend money to farmers

Many children of farmers went to work for a better pay in German's industries

Rural depopulation grew

Peasants had state protection for their farms

The Reich Food Estate in September 1933

Set up central boards to buy agricultural produce from the farmers and distribute it to markets in Germany

The Nazis and the workers
Hitler promised lower unemployment

Popular among industrial workers

Loyalty of industrial workers by a variaty of iniciatives

Some workers thought that their standard of living was still lower than it had been before the Depression

Workers had to join the DAF (General Labour Front)

It kept strict control of workers

Some were prevented from moving to better-paid jobs

They couldn't strike for better pay and conditions

Workers lost their Trade Unions

Workers lost the Social Democratic Party

Iniciatives

Beauty of Labour

Improed working conditions in factories

Workers saved 5 marks a week in the state scheme to buy the Volkswagen Beetle "people's car"

Prosperous symbol of the new Germany

Strength Through Joy (KDF)

Offered cut-price cruises on luxury liners

Gave them cheap theatre and cinema tickets

Propaganda tried to associate them with Hitler

Important for Nazis

Good workers were needed to create industries

Economic recovery and rearmament
These measures boosted national pride

Germans began to feel their country was emerging from the humiliation of the First World War

Rearmament

Four-Year Plan was announced in 1936

Conscription for the German army was reintroduced in 1935

Reduced unemployment

Weapons, equipment and uniforms were needed

Jobs in coal mines, steel amd textile mills were created

National Labour Service

Sent men on public works projects and conservation programmes

New public building programmes

Major house-building programmes

Build a network of motorways

Railways were extended

Economist Dr Hjalmar Schacht

Organized Germany's finances

The impacts of the Second World War in Germany

The bombarding of Dresden
Hitler, Goebbels and other Nazi leaders committed suicide 3 months later

Germany was a shattered country now

In 1942, Allies decided an a new policy towards the bombing of Germany

By 1945, German poeple were in a desesperate state

Refugees were fleeing the advancing Russian armies in the east

3.5 million German civilians died

Food supplies were dwindling

Under Arthur "Bomber" Harris, industrial and residential areas of all mayor Germany cities were bombarded

Objectives

Lower the morale of civilians

Cripple German industry

Germans stayed away from Nazi rallies and they refused to give the "Heil Hitler" salute when they were asked
Measures were carried out by the SS
Country areas had to take evacuees from the cities and refugees from eastern Europe
Woman were drafted into the Labour Force in increasing numbers
All places for entretainment were closed

Except for cinemas

Useful for propaganda

Letter boxes were closed
postal services were suspended
Hitler fullfilled his promises
Consequences

He started the Second World War

Eventhough food and clothes were rationated, Germans lived in better conditions that in other countries

War with Russia disrupted civilian's lives

German people started to hear less about Hitler

He was proccupied because of the war

The Final Solution

Was based on the killing of million of Jewish civilians in German-occupied countries

Goebbels tried to mantain poeple's support

By asking them to do sacrifices

1.5 million fur coasts were donated to German army in Russia

They had to

Recycle rubbish

Work longer hours

Cut back on heating

Promises

Extend German territory into easter Europe

Unite Germany and Austria

Rebuild Germany's armed forces

Reverse the Treaty of Versalles

The persecution of minorities

Nazis believed in the superior of the Aryan race
Persecution of other races and minorities

Sterilisation was enforced in families with hereditary illnesses

Mentally handicapped

Were a threat to Nazi ideas about Germans beign a perfect master race

Between 1939 and 1945, "Euthuansia- programme" was introduced

Mentally handicapped babies and children were killed

Homosexuals

Were a threat to Nazi ideas about a family life

Gypsies

Considered an inferior race

Hitler and the Jews

Resistance
Many resisters helped Jews in concentration camps to escape

Most of the succesful resisters were succesful because they kept unextremely low profile and were discovered neither by the nazis then, nor by historians today

Gad Beck

Lead the Jewish resistace to the Nazis in Berlin

Captured in April 1945

Rescued by a detouchment of troops from the Jewish regiment of the Red Army before his execution

28 known groups of Jewish fighters

Other Jews managed to live under cover in Germany and the occupied territories
Many Jews scaped from Germany before the killing started
The "Final Solution"
Historians agree that Hitler was ultimately responsible

The genocide would not had been possible without

The German poeple

Mnay Germans took part in some aspect of the Holocaust, but closed their eyes to the full reality of what was hapening

Industry

Companies had their own slave labour camps

The Wehrmacht (Germn armed forces)

The SS

Adolf Heichmann devised a system of transporting Jews to the collecting points to the death camps

Police forces in Germany and the occupied lands

The Civil Service bureaucracy

They collected and stored information about Jews

Structuralists historians argue that the plan was not clear from the beginning

The problem was the lack of evidence

Hitler made speeches in which he talked of the annihilation of the Jews

He never signed any documents or made any recorded orders directly relation to the extermination of the Jews

Nazis kept the killing programme as secret as they could

International historians believed the hole dreadful process was planned
The "death camps"
In January 1942, Nazis met to discuss about the "Final Solution"

Slave labour and death camps were built

6 million Jews, 500.000 European gypsies and countless political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and Russian and Polish prisoners of war

Sent to these camps to be worked to death, gassed or shot

Some were used for appalling medical experiments

The able-bodied were used as slave labour

The old, the sick and young children were killed inmediately

Himmler, head of the SS and Gestapo, was put in charge of the systematic killing of all Jews within Germany and German-occupied territory.

Mass murder
In 1941, Germany invaded the USSR

Nazis were in controle of 3 million Russian Jews in addition to the Jews in all of the other countries they had invaded

There was a massive shooting

The ghettos
After defeating Poland in 1939, the Nazis set about "Germanising" western Poland

Polish Jews were herded into sealed areas called ghettos

The young, the old, and the sick were left to die from hunger and disease

The ablbe-bodied Jews were used for slave labour

Kristallnacht ("The Night of the Broken Glass")
In November 1938, a young Jew killed a German diplomat in Paris

The Nazis used this as an excuse to launch a violent revenge on Jews

Thhousands of Jews left the country

Twenty thousand Jews were taken to concentration camps

Hundreads of synagogues were burned

Ninety-one Jews were murdered

Hitler insanely hated the Jews
As soons as he took power in 1933, he movilised the full powers of the state against the Jews

In shools, Jewish children were humiliated and segregated

Jews were refused jobs and people in shops refused to serve them

Goebbels propaganda experts bombarded German children and families with anti-Jewish messages

Jews were forbidden to marry or have sex with pure-blodded Germand

Nuremberg Laws took away German citizenship from Jews

SA and SS troopers organized boycotts of Jewish shops and buisnesses

Marked with a star of David

Banned from the Civil Service and a variety and Public Services like teaching and broadcasting

He blamed the Jews for German's defeat in the Firt World War
During his years of poverty in Vienna, he became obsessed with Jews as they ran the money of the most successful buisnesses

Offended his idea of the superiority of Aryans