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Life in Authoritarian States : - Coggle Diagram
Life in Authoritarian States :
Women's Policies
Kinder, Küche, & Kirche:
the ruling rule or Nazi Party guideline over women was enforced to create what was viewed as the ideal Aryan society or structure. women were limited to the home to tend to 'the children, kitchen, and church'.
Law for the Encouragement of Marriage:
gave newly wed couples a loan of 1,000 marks and allowed for the to keep 250 marks for each child they had.
Also gave women the opportunity for women to have the child of a SS officer of 'pure Aryan blood. Awards known as the Mother's Cross was given to women who had large numbers of children.
Limited role in the workforce until conscription in the German war effort in 1943. Women were encouraged to follow traditional roles and structures to be able to 'effectively' give birth.
Children and Education Policies
The White Rose, Edelweiss Pirates, & Swing Youth:
all of these youth groups resisted the Nazi part in some capacity in the typical 'teenage rebellion'. However The White Rose Specifically, out of the University of Munich wrote anti-Nazi pamphlets that ultimately led to the execution of Hans and Sophie Scholl who headed the organization
The Hitler Youth and League of German Maidens:
School in Nazi Germany:
was used as a base line position for indoctrination. the party worked to influence children in to believing ideas of race and Aryan purity, Nazi and party ideology, and the structure of the Third Reich overall. subjects like chemistry and maths were downgraded in importance.
Aryan mythology began to be enacted within Germany as a whole. Racial purity was not dismissed from other nations however, Germany strongly played into this role. Focus on the push for 'herrenvolk' name was also focused on this ideal by enforcing the ideal to include both nationalism and socialism into the discussion.
Economic Policies
Removal of Trade Unions:
Forcing German workers to join the German Labor Front (DAF), removed the risk of protests in opposition and removed potential sympathy for Communist ideas
Focus on the Creation of Public Works:
building public spaces, hospitals, the Olympic stadium, and the creation of the autobahn system employed 80,000 people.
Rearmament and Conscription:
By placing German workers into the rearmament program, millions of Germans were newly employed as well as the use of conscription and the
National Labor Service
meant young men were no longer considered part of the 'unemployed'
Hyperinflation was rampant at the time in Germany, the stress of reparations, the crash of the economy, and by 23' inflated the value meaning four trillion marks became equivalent to a dollar.
]spurred anger and resentment as a whole as Germany felt as if the fault of World War One was not solely on the hands of Germany, meaning that they were extremely offended by the terms within the treaty focused on the severity and appearingly never ending of work.
Hoare-Laval Plan: leaked to press and was ultimately problematic as it demonstrated that the League wasn't taken seriously and there was no REAL international guide of systems.
Cultural Policies
Reichstag Fire:
was used a propaganda method for Hitler to blame communists and sequentially place the KPD and SPD under major suspicion, leading to the Enabling Act
The Night of the Long Knives:
calls by the SA and Ernst Röhm to move forward with the socialist agenda prompted their murder and removal as a form opposition within the Nazi party. Showed Hitler's ruthlessness and demonstrated the power of the SS
Censorship of the Art in Germany:
Aggression on the part of Italy was less apparent than that of Germany. However, the manner in which Mussolini and Hitler became allied placed a lot of attention on the nation in terms of appeasement or aggression.
