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Impact of Hitler's rule on Germany - Coggle Diagram
Impact of Hitler's rule on Germany
Political impact
Consolidation of power
Reichstag Fire, February 1933
Enabling Act, Mach 1933
One Party Rule, July 1933
Night of the Long Knives, June 1934
Creation of Fuehrer position, August 1934
Economic impact
Control of trade unions
German Work Front
Rise of big industries
Goering's Four Year Plan (1936)
the New Plan of 1934
Re-employment
Five million unemployed
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht
Reich Labour Service
Militarisation
Conscription for army introduced in 1935
1.4 million in army by 1939
Modern air force-Luftwaffe
Organising workers' leisure time
Improve working conditions
Nazi propaganda praised workers
Social impact
Propaganda
Joseph Goebbels brainwashed Germans
Make sure they were loyal to Nazi rule and beliefs
Stirred up anti-Semitic & anti-communist feelings
Nuremberg rallies
Censorship
Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933
Nazis censored everything the Germans could read, watch or listen to
More important than propaganda in controlling Germans
lack of freedom of expression and ideas among the Germans
Rise of secret police
Schutzstaffel
Carefully recruited
Hitler's personal bodyguard
Responsible for destroying Nazi's enemies & carrying out their racial policies
Built and ran concentration camps
Formed in April 1925
Gestapo
Nazi's secret police force
Headed by Heinrich Himmler
Responsible for finding and removing threats to the Nazi part
Had unlimited powers of arrest
Persecution of Jewish people and other minority groups
Encouraged the SA and SS to bully and mistreat the Jews
National boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933
Nuremberg Laws passed in 1935 effectively excluded Jews from German society
The Night of Broken Glass, 1938
Holocaust during World War II
Gypsies, homosexuals, handicapped and disabled
Role of women in Nazi Germany
Confined to mother and spouse
Excluded from politics and academics
Young German girls to undergo vigorous training in domestic tasks
The Hitler Youth
Groom youths to be future leaders of Nazi
Membership in the Hitler Youth was compulsory for all Aryan German youths
Indoctrinated in anti-Semitism and Nazi ideology
Ensured complete loyalty of German youth to the Nazis