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Target groups in Nazi society (Religion (At first cooperated because 97%…
Target groups in Nazi society
after school
Hiotler Youth uptake = 1.5% in 1932
Made compulsory in 1936
By 1938 - 77.2% had joined
Girls taught how to be good housewives
Boys prepared for war
Popular especially fo rpoor children
Small amount of opposition Edelweiss Piraten didnt conform
Outsiders
Ideoliogocal oppponents
Members of the confessional Church,
Communists
Socialists
These sent to concentration camps following Night of the Long Knives 1933
Biological opponents - those who didn't fit into the Aryan race
Untermenschen - Jews, Czechs, Poles and Slavs
Disabled
Those with hereditary diseases
Asocials
Social outcasts because of their behaviour
Criminals
Prostitutes
Gays
Work shy
beggars
tramps
Women
Wanted to reduce women in employment
Women should be at Church, in the kitchen and produce children
Women given marriage loans: RM600 - interest free and equivalent of half a years wages
Women given medals to encourage them to have large families
recruitment actively discriminated against women
Contraception limited
Weimars anti-abortion law enforced
View however changed when war occurred - women were needed in employment
Women not allowed to practice as doctors, law and civil servants
Religion
At first cooperated because 97% of German were either Protestant or Catholic
Signed the concordat with the Pope
This was broken less than a year later
Religious youth groups such as scouts discouraged and then banned
Once Nazi coordination had occurred, aim was to abolish Protestantism and Catholicism
Instead Hitler wanted a pagan religion
Church schools and youth groups banned
Monastries closed
Caused opposition: Cinfessional Church led by Martin Niemoller
Niemoller fanmously said: "We must obey God not man"
Overall weakened influence of the Church on the young, but Church managed to survive Nazism
School
Teachers must join the National Socialist League NSLB
Nazis saw indoctrination of the young as very important
Tecahers who were disolyal or Jewiush were dismissed
Focus on: history, German, biology, PE and eugenics
Jewish children npo longer eductaed with Aryans
Teachers had to be Nazi supporters
Only 10% of university students could be female
97% joined - very good support