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Life in Authoritarian States - Coggle Diagram
Life in Authoritarian States
Nazi Germany
Workers and economics
Trade Unions banned
The Labour Front
Autarky
Increased Employment
Public works
autobahn
Rearmament
National Service
Conscription
Jews and women lost jobs
Changed economic conditions
+50% big business wages
Agricultural prices up 20%
20% of small businesses closed
Strength through Joy
Beauty of Labour
Legal system
Judges swore an oath to Hitler
Nazi Lawyers' Association
Defense lawyers had little authority
Subjective punishment
More death penalty, less crime
Police State
SS
SD
Gathered intelligence
Gestapo
Secret Police
Religion
State Reich Church
Nazi Bishop Ludwig Müller
German Christians
Banned Old Testament
1933 Concordat with Pope
Hitler violated agreement and used propaganda in church
Catholic Schools and Organizations Suppressed
Catholic Newspapers banned
Priests sent to Dachau
800 Pastors from confessional church arrested
Children
State Schools
Nazi Curriculum
History- Rise of Nazis
Biology- Eugenics
Race study- Aryan and anti-semitism
PE- One hour physical exercise 5 days per week
Chemistry and math no longer important
The Hitler Youth
Prepare boys to be soldiers
Military-style uniform
rifle practice and political indoctrination
The League of German Maidens
Prepare girls for motherhood
blue skirt, white blouse and and heavy marching shoes
Domestic skills such as sewing and cooking
Media and Propaganda
Swastika
Pictures of Hitler
"Heil Hitler" and salute
Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda
Joseph Goebbels
Press censorship
Stories must praise Nazis
Control of Radio Broadcasts
Cheap radios
Reich Broadcasting Corporation
Rallies
Nuremberg
Sports
1936 Berlin Olympics
Culture and Art
"Aryan Art"
Architecture of Albert Speer
Book Burnings
Nazi-produced political plays and musicals
Allowed classics like Shakespeare as well
Nationalist Films
Leni Riefenstahl
Triumph of the Will (1935)
Women in Nazi Germany
3 K's
Kirche
Support Nazi Religion
Küche
Discouraged from working
Law for the Reduction of Unemployment
Financial incentives for women to stay home
Not conscripted until 1943
Cheap labor
Kinder
"The mission of women is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world" -Goebbels
Hitler wanted high birth rate
Law for the Encouragement of Marriage
1,000 mark loan for newlywed couple
250 marks for each child
Mother’s Cross for manz children
Women could have a child of the SS
Minorities
Sterilisation of disabled
Euthanasia of disabled
Jews, Homosexuals, prostitutes, Jehovah's Witnesses, gypsies, alcoholics, pacifists, beggars, hooligans and criminals sent to concentration camps
Persecution of Jews
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
Concentration then Death Camps
Fascist Italy
Economic Policies
8 hour work day
More earnings for workers
Worker representation in parliament
Tax Privileges for large families
Fascist Charter of Labour of 1927
Economic "Battles"
Corporatism
Fascist unions
Failed to prevent wage cuts and termination
Children and Education
Boys trained to be soldiers
Girls trained to be mothers
Curriculum
Modern Italy began with the March on Rome in 1922
Taught that Mussolini was the only man who could save Italy
“War is to the male what childbearing is to the female.”
Obedience
Fascist vaules
Boys' Organizations
Sons of the She Wolf
Balilla
semi-military exercises
Avanguardista
Civic service for girls
Women
Battle for Births, 1927
More children = More appreciation
Birth Control and abortions banned
Prison sentences
Role as homemaker
Encouraged marriage
Bachelor Tax
Ban on employment and university access
Traditional values
Cultural Policies
Religion
Supported Catholic Church
Lateran Treaty
Blackshirts
Secret police
OVRA
Rooted out political opposition
confino
Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro
State censored news and banned criticism of fascism
fascist newsreels and documentaries
Propaganda
state-organized spectacular rituals (ceremonies, parades, etc.)