Social developments 1929-1949 Flashcards
(32 cards)
What was the KdF? When was it established and why?
- Strength through Joy
- 1933
- For organising workers’ leisure time
When was the RAD made compulsory? How much service was required?
- 1935
- Every man aged 18-25 required to do at least 6 months of
What replaced unions in 1933? What propaganda did it use?
- German Labour Front, DAF
- Slogans made like “work ennobles” and posters of ideal aryan workers
What measures were put in place to encourage motherhood?
- Contraception centres closed
- Abortion illegalised (unless it is to purge a baby with genetic defects)
- “Honour Cross for motherhood” introduced
- Maternity benefit increased
What measure was put in place to ensure genetic purity in 1935?
A law states couples have to gain a certificate for fitness to marry
When were “unproductive marriages” ended? What happened after this?
- 1938
- This was extended after to mean that couples who had marriages terminated and were still cohabiting could be arrested
What measures were put in place to ensure the female role?
- All women told to leave civil service or medicine in 1934
- Women not eligible for jury service
- Only 10% in unis allowed to be women
- Allowances given to women who stopped work
What youth organisations were set up and who did they serve?
- Hitler Youth set up to serve boys aged 6-18
- League of German Maidens set up to serve girls aged 10-21
What changed in school’s subject curriculum?
- New subjects (folklore, genetics, racial theory)
- Maths problems posed using ideological language
- History highlights German heroism
- Social Darwinism taught in biology
How did a teacher’s role change?
- Required to be actively anti-semitic
- Required to join the National Socialist Teachers’ League, which organises camps to reinforce values
- Subject to political vetting
What were some of the new types of schools that were set up?
- Adolf Hitler Schools made highly trained administrators
- National political educational institutions, or napolas focused on military training and were run by SS
What was Eintopf?
- “one pot” — families encouraged to have one dish only for sunday lunch and donate the money saved
- Involvement in this scheme and others like it were seen as a show of loyalty. Hitler once threatened death to those who withheld items meant for collection
What was winterhilfe?
- Winter help
- Began in 1933 to help victims of the depression
- Collectors would often come to your door and intimidate you into donating money, food or clothing
Who led the German Christians? What did they demand?
Ludwig Muller led them, and they demanded the Gospels to be completely purged of Jewish text
What was the German Faith Movement? What laws did it result in?
- A fringe movement supported by some SS to establish a new pagan faith instead of Christianity
- Led to the banning of carols and nativity in schools from 1938 and replacing the word Christmas with “Yuletide”
What is the German name for the people’s receiver? What was the people’s receiver?
- Volksempfanger
- Short-wave radio supplied to all Germans
How did the Nazis control the newspapers?
- Goebbels would meet with newspaper editors daily to brief them
- Private newspapers were gradually bought out by the government
What were “Wanderkarte”?
Permits given to asocials that were deemed “orderly”, giving them compulsory work in return for lodging
When did roundups of workshy take place?
- Sep 1933
- 1938, under code “workshy Reich”
Where were juvenile delinquents sent?
A special youth concentration camp at moringen
Who created muscular sculptures of the ideal aryan?
Arno Brecker
What is the German word for the Reichstag chamber of culture?
Reichskulturkammer
When did book burnings take place?
May 1933
How did Hitler threaten the jews in 1939?
Threatened the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe” in the event of war
