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Hitler's Domestic Policies & Consequences - 1933/45 (Economic…
Hitler's Domestic Policies & Consequences - 1933/45
Economic Policies
Hjalmar Schacht (1934-37)
Organisation of Industry
Loans from countries
Taxation to increase state funds
--> The New Plan, 1934
Employment through public works
National Labour Service
Goering- Four Year Plan, 1936-39
labour force under tight control
increased use of import controls
synthetic substitutes for rubber/oil
Albert Speer and Wartime Economy - important to sustain high output right through the years of war until 1944
Propaganda & Media
The Nazi Party rallies led by Nuremberg
Propaganda managed and controlled by Goebbels
The Berlin Olympics 1936
sports used as a propaganda tool
event for Hitler to make an appearance
The Press
Eher Verlag purchased newspapers and journals
Control further strengthened on news agencies
Editors Law put full responsibility on editors
The Arts
Censorship ensured German glorification
Writers, artists & performers collaborated with NSDAP
The Radio
The Reich Radio Company
Provision of Germans with radios
Education
The Curriculum
emphasis on race and ideology
language & history modified
history & biology showed Jews as harmful
Dispute with the Churches
exclusion of religious instruction
feared breach of the Concordat of 1933
German Workers
German Labour Front
single largest organisation for work led by Ley
regulation of German workforce on military lines
25 million workers in 12 years
Kraft durch Freude
Catered for the recreational needs of Germans
Provision for holidays and leisure activities
Hitler Youth & BDM
Run by von Schirach
Aimed to train men in Nazi values
Physical activities & outdoor life
Initially voluntary membership, with strong pressure
In 1939, membership became compulsory
Overall successful with central control in Third Reich
The Status of Women
Motherhood
Hitler wanted women to embrace motherhood
fewer women allocated university places
higher professions offered fewer positions
civil service no longer accepted women
Impact of War
Land Year programme introduced in 1939
Pressure of War obliged Nazis to drop opposition to women to fill in industrial workforce
Treatment of Minorities
Sterilisation Programme
Affected people suffering from specified diseases
Euthanasia Programme
An organisation code-named T4, was commissioned to oversee the elimination of defectives . Executed by gas in special killing centres set up all over Germany
There were several religious and social protests against the inhumaine actions of the programmes. Relatives would demand for an exact explanation of the death cause and doctors would refuse to participate
Persecution of Minorities
Other Minorities
Thousands of Roma gypsies, homosexuals, Jenovah's Witnesses and black or mixed Germans, were arrested, tortured and executed in the Nazi years.
Jewish Population
Kristallnacht- November 1938
Final Solution- 1942
Holocaust- 1942/45