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Hitler’s Germany1933-1939
1933-1939
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The Economy
The Military
The Youth
Propaganda
Culture & Art
Society
Maintaining Control
Anti-Semitism
The Economic Miracle
Hybrid Economy:
No restrictions of VT.
Some industry nationalized (VW)
Capitalist
(free business) allowed to flourish
The Economic Miracle
The RAD: Reichsarbeitdienst
Public works projects :
roads(the autobahn), parks, Dams, and rebuilding industry.
The Economic Miracle
Unemployment rates drop dramatically!
- 6 million in January 1932
- 2.5 Million in July 1933 and continues to decrease.
HUGE “BUY IN” factor for the Nazis!
The Military under the Nazis
No restrictions of VT
No size limitations
Industry geared up for war material
= greatness of Germany and the Reich
The Youth: “Blood and Honor”Education was national socialized. (1936)
1934 all youth organizations are disbanded
All youth are required to join the Hitler Youth and conform to the ideals of National Socialism.
The Youth
The Reich’s future
Taught boys to be obedient soldiers
Taught girls to have children for the Fuehrer and support families
Propaganda: The key to misinformation
Culture & Art
Roman architecture
Art idealized the perfect human body, seen as “Aryan”
Idealized Nature
Idealized Nazism.
Society: Living in Nazi GermanyPress and radio were censored
Book, art, music, movies, and clothing were regulated by the state.
Civil Rights suspended for the good of the country.
Society: Racial SuperiorityA German woman undergoes a "racial examination," in which her facial features are measured. Many Germans accepted this propaganda as scientific truth. Circa 1933-1939.
Eugenics
Maintaining ControlSA-Original Nazi Street thugs
Sturmabteilung
The Secret Police-Gestapo The SS-Originally Hitler’s Body Guards
Schutzstaffel
The SD- Secret police of the SS Sicherheitsdienst
Maintaining Control: rule of fearYouth “brainwashed”
Neighbors turn one another into the authorities
Opposition killed or punished severely
First Concentration Camp, Dachau, opened in 1933
Maintaining Control“When the Nazis arrested the Communists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist. When they locked up the Social Democrats, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat. When they arrested the trade unionists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist. When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew. When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.”
Anti-Semitism
1935 Nuremberg Laws
all Jews are denied citizenship
Boycotted businesses
No education
Jews not allowed employment
1938 -Kristallnacht
Anti-SemitismIllustration from a children's book. The headlines say "Jews are our misfortune" and "How the Jew cheats." Germany, 1936.
Summary
Police State
Germany is Nazified
All become national Socialist
Rule by fear and violence