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Life in Nazi Germany (Green) & Fascist Italy (Orange) - Coggle Diagram
Life in Nazi Germany (Green) & Fascist Italy (Orange)
Policies toward Women
1927 Battle for Births. Family target of 5 children. Palazzo Venezia meeting in 1933 for most children. 50,000 women in the Italian resistance movement.
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche: Hitler's main attitude to women is to produce children, tend to the home, and attend church
Women were expected to wear plain peasant clothes, no makeup, and have birth-giving curves. No liberal "city" values.
Law for the Encouragement of Marriage, Mother's Cross, picked Aryan women to breed with SS (all incentivized more Aryan production)
Law for the Reduction of Unemployment: Women were incentivized to stay home.
Policies towards Children/Education
Education: History of Nazi Party, Aryan eugenics, anti-Semitism, sports, science/math were downgraded in importance. Brainwashed children to not ask questions.
League of German Maidens: Prepare for motherhood, skirt/blouse, domestic skills and some physical exercise.
The Hitler Youth: Prepared German boys into soldiers, military-style uniforms, physical activity and political indoctrination.
Sons of the She Wolf, Balilla, Avanguardista. Nation of warriors. Boys were fighters, women were good mothers. "War is to the male what childbearing is to the female",
Economic Policies
Public works: Hospitals, schools, 1936 Olympic Stadium. Autobahn employed 80,000.
Hitler wanted Germany to be a self-sufficient autarky. However, Goring's plans didn't work and Germany was still importing.
Jews and women were fired and jobs given to Aryan men.
Strength through Joy, Beauty of Labor, Labor Front: designed to spur employment as unions were shut down and employees who complained were blacklisted.
Rearmament and NLS conscription greatly increased employment.
The Battle for Land to clear marshlands and Pontine marshes. The Battle of the Lira to restore strength of currency by making exports more expensive. Battle for Grain for Italian agricultural self-sufficiency.
Cultural Policies
Targeted Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, and disabled.
Sterilisation of peope with hereditary diseases and "degenerates".
Euthanasia of physically/mentally disabled. Concentration camps for "degenerates".
Nuremberg Laws of 1935, Kristallnacht, Kindertransport of Jews to Britain.
Return to Roman glory: order, discipline, hierarchy. Irredentisim and expansionism of spazio vitale, mare nostrum, and Italia irredenta.
Racism against Jews etc. Supremacy of Aryans and Mediterranean. Anti-Semitism and Caesareism.