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Ideology of the Nazis - Coggle Diagram

- - - - This scheme was set up in November 1933 Its aims were to make workers support Hitler by offering them rewards and to keep them occupied outside the workplace with organised leisure activities. It was run by Dr Ley. The activity includes:
        
        evening classes;
        
        theatre trips;
        
        picnics;
        
        broad range of mass participation sporting events;
        
        very cheap or free holidays. There were walking holidays in Switzerland and skiing holidays in Bavaria. Two big cruise liners were built to sail people around the Canary Islands for only two weeks’ wages.
        
        The KdF also started a savings scheme for workers who wanted to buy the Volkswagen Beetle, known as the “People’s Car”. They were to save 5 marks per week until 750 marks had been paid into the scheme.
  - - - This was the Nazi organisation that replaced trade unions, which were banned in May 1933 because they could interfere with Hitler’s plans. It was run by Dr Robert Ley.
      - Workers could not strike, bargain for wages or leave their jobs without permission.
      - The DAF nearly always followed the wishes of employers, rather than employees.
      - The maximum working hours per week were increased from 60 to 72. Workers could not change their jobs without permission.
      - Councils of Trust were set up in firms with 20 workers or more to discuss working conditions regulated in the “factory code of rules”
      - 20 million workers joined the DAF within two years.
- - - - 60,000 new houses were built.
      - Rent and price controls helped consumers.
      - People enjoyed the very varied activities of the KdF. By 1938, 10 million people (a third of the workforce) had enjoyed a state financed holiday.
      - There was full employment.
  - - - People’s diets became less healthy and monotonous.
      - There was rationing of butter even before World War Two, because Göring wanted “Arms not butter”.
      - Few people actually got to go on cruises.
      - No one received a “People’s Car”. When war broke out in 1939, car production was axed and replaced with the making of tanks.
      - Workers had lost the right to negotiate wages, to strike and to change jobs freely. The Councils of Trust did little to increase mutual trust in factories between employees and employers.