History B: Nazis

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Hitler was keen on women votes.

They were targeted in Nazi posters.
Promised to make families
important and give them a special
place. Their life should revolve round
the three 'Ks': church, children and
cooking. Nazi policies for women did

To Hitler a woman was the centre

Hitler wanted a high
of family life, a housewife and mother. birth rate and later on
Hitler even introduced a medal for women started giving out loans
who had eight or more children Women
of 1000marks , to newly
were expected to stay at home and look
wed couples and allowed
after the family. Women were forced to
them to keep 250 marks
give up their careers.
for each child they had.

Kapp Putsch (event): freikorps hated

treaty of Versailles and the
government for signing it. Disbanded
some of freikorps made them furious.
Attempted to take power in Berlin
march 1920 led by Dr Wolfgang
Kapp. Weimar republic told people to
strike, army refused to move against
kapp. Plan didnt work too much
chaos for Kapp (Sweden).

5 January 1919. tried to organise strike

but no one supported it. Ebert was
supported by Freikorps by the 15 they
were crushed and leaders were arrested
but shot.

they work? Yes- given loans/ Overall- worked for period of

awards no of employed
time, success due to other
women went down. And
factors e.g. economic recovery
more got married + birthratecaused higher birthrates.
increased.

No-average family still consisted of

two kids despite ideal four, in 1933
employed women rose need for
industrial work and paid less.
Kapp
Putsch showed weimar republic Boys took science maths and military
Spartacist: The spartacist league were
had
support
from Berlin workers but
communist, didnt believe Ebert/ social
drilling. Concentrated on physical
little from the army. Spartacist were
democrats would serve interests of
important because uprising highlighted fitness and skills for army. Girls took
working people, led by Rosa Luxemburg instability of Weimar republic, also it needle work, music, home craft.
and Karl liebneckt, uprising in Berlin on left new republic dependant on army. Prepare them for domestics/ family.

Did the Nazis brainwash a generation: From 1933 Jews were removed from
yes- by 1940 most in Hitler youth (11.1 their professions. The 1935
million), reports of children spying on
Nuremberg Laws deprived them of
parents, absorbed many Nazi ideas.
citizenship. Persecution was gradually
No- still 4.4 million not joined till
compulsory, (1million still didnt join), increased with boycotts of Jewish
Swing groups, White Rose, Edelwesis businesses until night of broken
pirates.

Nazis had limited effect

i.e. members of youth
Hitler not all joined.

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Nazis

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family has four children, mother is

caring , She wears a plain dress, She
has her hair in a bun; she is not
wearing make-up, mother is not
skinny, family lives in a
rural/farming environment, boy
wears his Hitler Youth uniform,
sister plays with a doll - preparation
for motherhood, they are the ideal
Aryans.

glass in November 1938 when the

SA looted over 7,000 Jewish shops
and arrested 20,000 Jews.

Why were the Nazis anti- Semitic:

people generally racist scared of
difference, scapegoat, inferior race,
not Aryan looking, they were
successful (165 LAWYERS, 10%
DOCTORS).
Evidence that shows change of
treatment to Jews: boycott of Jewish
businesses (1933), Nuremberg laws
(sept 1935), night of broken glass
( nov 1938), Jews forbidden to own
businesses ( jan 1939) , genocide/final

Education: Nazi policies

changed schools. Jews fired,
teachers joined Nazi teacher
league, P.E doubled, no R.E,
textbooks rewritten.
Some originally
hated Jews because
of their different
customs and
beliefs. Also Jews
were blamed for
everything that had
happened to
Germany.
Hyperinflation is just out-of-control
inflation at an extremely high rate.
Prices ran out of control - eg a loaf of
bread, was 250 marks later on rose to
200,000 million marks. German's
currency became worthless. Some
people made fortunes. People on
wages were safe, because they
renegotiated their wages. Pensioners
on fixed incomes were the most hit.

what can we see from

Nazi policies in schoolkeen on making Nazis
bigger, easy to start
from young age /
brainwash them.

Germans believed they

descended from a master
race (Aryan). Depicted
as: blue-eyed, blond
and athletic.
Hitler wanted to
created at master
race through
selective breeding.
Hyperinflation was caused when
Germany paid their first two
installments but couldnt pay the
third the French invaded then
Germany told people to stop
working but they were still
printing money despite
not making any.

The year 1924-1929 saw the

economic recovery in Germany:
agree- new currency due to
Stresemann (rentemark), stop
French from invading Ruhr( part that
made a lot of money) Young plan
( decreased reparations
Disagree- borrowed money from
America, People were unemployed
all over the country not evenly
spread. Very rich or very poor.
Overall- more
hassel,
vulnerable,
problems
arise
Groups that supported
the Nazis
later.
and why: farmers- blood+soil (true
germans), income fell (crop failure,
foot and mouth, low profits) nazis
promised to help, Rich/industrialistanti- communist, unemployedpromised jobs, end benefit cuts,
nationalist- hated treaty of
Versailles like Nazis, young peoplewant change, middle-class- disoder,
good future, SA, working-classrights, better jobs

Rise of the Nazis from 1928- 1932:

Goebbels' propaganda
Reasons why Hitler rose to power campaign was very effective The
Hitler was a great speaker. The other Nazis targeted specific groups. Hitler
political parties would not work was given power in a seedy political
together, despite together having deal by Hindenburg and Papen who
more support than the Nazis.
thought they could control him.
The depression of 1929 created poverty German people angry about
and unemployment, Hitler offered the Treaty of Versailles and Hitler to
jobs. The Nazi storm
overturn it.
troopers attacked Hitler's
opponents.
What was
the SS:
What effect did the Reichstag fire
Hitlers private
(February 27 1933) have on the Nazi
bodyguards, 500 the
government: imprison many
50,000, in 1934
communist, blame communist, no
crushed SA,
opposition, enabling act, protection of
terrorised/
people and state ( imprison anyone seen
intimidated Germans,
as enemy without trial), week before
ran concentration
elections (march 1933)
camps, Blonde with
blue eyes.

Religion (social) Hitler believed that

Germany became a country where it
religion was a threat to the Nazis
was unsafe to do or say anything
control over people's minds, so tried
critical of the government.
different ways to reduce the power of the
Hitler ordered Nazification - the
church over people.
Non-Nazi Catholic priests + protestant imposition of Nazi values - on all aspects
pastors such as Martin Niemller was of German life.
Artists had to produce
sent to concentration camps. Jews and
acceptable paintings that
Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted.
portrayed Nazi values.
Hitler set up the Reich Church.
Jazz music was banned.

persuaded people to adopt the Nazi

point of view: Newspapers were
censored. People's radios were sold
very cheaply, broadcasts controlled.
Films were controlled to make films
that glorified war. Loudspeakers in
public Nazi propaganda.
Hitler's picture was everywhere,
portrayed as Germany's savior.

Weimar: strengths- Stresemann

sorted out inflation, foreign
policies( Kellogg pact against wars,
league of nations), dawes plan
( reparation payments easier),
standard living rose, young plan
weaknesses- too
many arguments, coalition, 25
governments in 14yr,
unemployment, in debt to US,
farmers income
fell.
Propaganda:
to present
selected or particular
things to give off a wanted
image.
Government (political)
The way Hitler
consolidated power in
1933-1934 meant that the
Nazis had absolute control
of national and local
government.
How did the Nazis control peoples
lives: through education,
government, religion, culture, terror,
work, and social.

Difficulties facing
Germany by the end
of world war 1: lack
of money, lack food,
ruined homes, high
death rate, malnutrition, little
medical attention,
sicknesses, hardly
anything done.
The Nazis had a uniformed militia
called the SA who beat up
communist and political
competition. He got rid of them the
Night of long Knives by using the
SS. On the 30th June 1934 100 SA
leaders were arrested and shot at
Munich.

Nazis thought they had to stamp out

religion the didnt want moral
judgment. And wanted to control
them.

Gypsies: banned marriages between

Aryans just like blacks ( struggle
against the gypsy plague) they had
to register, Blacks: sterilized any of
them born to German women,
Mental: sterilized them too and then
started to kill them, Vagrants: had
to work or sent to concentration
camps.

In which ways did the treaty of

Versailles punish Germany? : war guilt
take responsibility for the whole thing,
reparations (6,600 million marks),
military demilitarization 100,00 men
only 6 battle ships left defenseless,
land was taken away i.e. Alsace
Lorraine, international relation left out
of League of nations not join up with
Austria.

Reasons why the Weimar government

werent popular: they were in the
middle, they were new, signed treaty of
Versailles.

Propaganda methods
newspapers( took them
over, told them what they
could write, set up
government press, anti
nazi newspapers were
shut down, people who
cancelled subscriptions
were threatened, only
1000 by 1944)
The catholic church: 1933
Hitler sings concordat
agreement wont interfere,
church schools closed,
catholic youth league
broke up, monasteries
closed, 1937 Hitler had
broke promise pope carried
out encyclical no effect.

Films (over 1000

Nazi propaganda
films were made,
people only allowed
in cinemas at the
beginning to watch
newsreels with Nazi
messages) film i.e.
the triumph of the
will.
The protestant church: 1933 united
with Nazis due to pressure, created
Reich Church, Nimoller created
confessional church, 6,000 joined,
2,000 left, 800 pastors arrested put in
concentration camps.
Non Christians
rose up

How did life improve in

Germany? : had shorter working
days, workers had a say in
buisness decisions, lived longer,
people got more money,
government built more houses.

Radio ( Reich radio company,

millions of cheap radios, by 1939
70% had radios), festivals and
celebrations ( usually held in
Munich), Culture ( musician/
actors/writers had to be part of
chamber of culture, if they didnt
produce acceptable work theyd be
banned, books to be about German's
heroic actions)
Churches who didnt
co-operate were
sent as families to
concentration camps
i.e. Jehovah
witnesses. Things
such as fortune
tellers were
banned.