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Life in Nazi Germany - Coggle Diagram
Life in Nazi Germany
Women in Germany
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Eugenics
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Eugenics is the advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits. It aims to “breed out” disease, disabilities and so-called undesirable characteristics from the human population.
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Rewards
Money: 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.
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Economy
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Cheap holidays and the offer of them was a good way to win the support of the average person in the street.
A cruise to the Canary Islands cost 62 marks – easily affordable to many though most cruises were taken up by Nazi Party officials.
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Cars
The KdF introduced a scheme where workers could get a car. The Volkswagen – People’s Car – was designed so that most could afford it.
The Beetle, cost 990 marks. This was about 35 weeks wages for the average worker.
To pay for one, workers paid 5 marks a week into an account.
No-one received a car.
The millions of marks invested into the scheme were re-directed into the rapidly expanding weapons factories.
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Autarky – Failure.
Scientists tried to make oil from coal and find substitutes for rubber, petrol and cotton. Unsuccessful.
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