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Nazi domestic policy - Coggle Diagram
Nazi domestic policy
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Economic Policy
- Hitler had promised an end to 'debt slavery' (war reparations)
- Key economic policies for the Nazis: reduce unemployment and achieve self-sufficiency (autarky)
- Agriculture was also regarded as important as it would feed the German 'volk' (people), this was important to achieve full autarky and awards and medals were awarded to successful Nazi farmers
- Nazi's fund massive public work projects (such as the Autobahn) and employ's 100,000s of workers, this both reduced unemployment and gave workers a sense of purpose in Germany
- Unemployment in Germany was eliminated by 1939 with many members of society employed or enlisted in the army
- the Nazi economy wouldn't be sustainable and a war was needed for the German economy to not collapse on itself
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Political violence
- Before Nazi took power, the Brownshirs (or SA) were used to intimidate voters and fight communists in the streets
- By 1933, the SA led by Ernst Rohm numbered 6 million, yet Hitler saw Rohm and the SA as a future threat to the leadership of the Nazi Party and public opinion was beginning to shift again the SA
- The disorganised SA was disbanded and replaced with the Gestapo (german secret police) and the SS as the coercive branch of the Nazi party
- March 1933, Dachau the first concentration camp opens for political opponents of the Nazi Regime such as communists, theses were labeled as 're-education centers' and the Nazis used this to introduce fear in the German people
- June 30-July 2 1934, Hitler orders the execution of Rohm and over 400 senior SA leaders are killed during the 'Night of the Long Knives'