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Life in Nazi Germany - Coggle Diagram

- - - -  “introducing the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage which gave newlywed couples a loan of 1,000 marks, and allowed them to keep 250 marks for each child they had”
      -  “giving an award called the Mother’s Cross to women who had large numbers of children”
      -  “allowing women to volunteer to have a baby for an Aryan member of the SS”
  - - -  “the introduction of the Law for the Reduction of Unemployment, which gave women financial incentives to stay at home”
         “not conscripting women to help in the war effort until 1943”
  - - -  “plain peasant costumes, hair in plaits or buns and flat shoes”.
- - - -  “History - lessons included a course on the rise of the Nazi Party.
         Biology - lessons were used to teach Nazi racial theories of evolution in eugenics.
         Race study and ideology - this became a new subject, dealing with the Aryan ideas and anti-Semitism.
         Physical Education - German schoolchildren had five one-hour sports lessons every week.
         Chemistry and Mathematics - were downgraded in importance”.
- - - -  The Concordat “said that he would not interfere in the running of the Catholic Church if it stayed out of political matters”.
    - -  “The Reich Church attempted to ban the use of the Old Testament in religious services as it was considered a ‘Jewish book’. Eight hundred Pastors of the Confessional Church, a non-conforming Protestant group, were arrested and sent to concentration camps”.
         “Catholic newspapers were banned and four hundred Catholic priests were sent to Dachau concentration camp”
    - -  “The Nazis tried to control the Churches with policies and bargaining”.
    - -  “A state Reich Church under the leadership of the Nazi Bishop Ludwig Müller was established to unify the different branches of Protestantism. This enabled the Nazis to use a group called the ‘German Christians’ within the Reich Church to promote Nazi ideas”.
  - - -  Schutzstaffel (SS): led by Heinrich Himmler. The SS was the most important organisation. “Initially set up as Hitler’s personal bodyguard service, the SS was fanatically loyal to the Führer. It later set up concentration camps where ‘enemies of the state’ were sent”.
      -  Gestapo: Nazi’s secret police force. “Its job was to monitor the German population for signs of opposition or resistance to Nazi rule”. Ordinary German people informing any information about their fellow citizens.
      -  Sicherheitsdienst (SD): “intelligence gathering agency of the SS”. “It was responsible for the security of Hitler and other top Nazis and was led by Himmler’s right hand man, Reinhard Heydrich”.
  - - -  “Censorship of the press: All newspapers were controlled by the government and could only print stories favourable to the Nazi regime”.
      -  “Control of radio broadcasts: People's radios were sold very cheaply so that most Germans could afford one. All radio output was controlled by Goebbels’ ministry through the Reich Broadcasting Corporation”.
      -  “Mass rallies: These public displays of support for Nazism involved music, speeches and demonstrations of German strength. The biggest one was held each year in August at Nuremberg”.
      -  “Use of sports events: Berlin hosted the Olympics of 1936, which the Nazis used as an opportunity to showcase the success of the regime and to demonstrate the superiority of the Aryan race. The victories of the African-American athlete Jesse Owens for the USA infuriated the Nazi leadership”.