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�Hitler’s Germany�1933-1939

1933-1939

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Preview Slide

  • The Economy
  • The Military
  • The Youth
  • Propaganda

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  • Culture & Art
  • Society
  • Maintaining Control
  • Anti-Semitism

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The Economic Miracle

Hybrid Economy:

  • No restrictions of Versailles Treaty (VT).
  • Some industry nationalized (VW)
  • Capitalist

(free business) allowed to flourish

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The Economic Miracle

  • The RAD: Reichsarbeitdienst
  • Public works projects :
  • roads(the autobahn), parks, Dams, and rebuilding industry.

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The Economic Miracle

  • Unemployment rates drop dramatically!

- 6 million in January 1932

- 2.5 Million in July 1933 and continues to decrease.

HUGE “BUY IN” factor for the Nazis!

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The Military under the Nazis

  • No restrictions of VT
  • No size limitations
  • Industry geared up for war material
  • = greatness of Germany and the Reich

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The Youth: “Blood and Honor”

  • Education was national socialized. (1936)
  • 1934 all youth organizations are disbanded
  • All youth are required to join the Hitler Youth and conform to the ideals of National Socialism.

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The Youth

  • The Reich’s future
  • Taught boys to be obedient soldiers
  • Taught girls to have children for the Fuehrer and support families

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Propaganda: The key to misinformation

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Culture & Art

  • Roman architecture
  • Art idealized the perfect human body, seen as “Aryan”
  • Idealized Nature
  • Idealized Nazism.

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Society: Living in Nazi Germany

  • Press and radio were censored
  • Book, art, music, movies, and clothing were regulated by the state.
  • Civil Rights suspended for the good of the country.

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Society: Racial Superiority

  • A German woman undergoes a "racial examination," in which her facial features are measured. Many Germans accepted this propaganda as scientific truth. Circa 1933-1939.
  • Eugenics

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Maintaining Control

  • SA-Original Nazi Street thugs

Sturmabteilung

  • The Secret Police-Gestapo
  • The SS-Originally Hitler’s Body Guards

Schutzstaffel

  • The SD- Secret police of the SS Sicherheitsdienst

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Maintaining Control: rule of fear

  • Youth “brainwashed”
  • Neighbors turn one another into the authorities
  • Opposition killed or punished severely
  • First Concentration Camp, Dachau, opened in 1933

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Maintaining Control

  • “When the Nazis arrested the Communists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.
  • When they locked up the Social Democrats, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
  • When they arrested the trade unionists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist.
  • When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.
  • When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.”

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Anti-Semitism

  • 1935 Nuremberg Laws
  • all Jews are denied citizenship
  • Boycotted businesses
  • No education
  • Jews not allowed employment
  • 1938 -Kristallnacht

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Anti-Semitism

  • Illustration from a children's book. The headlines say "Jews are our misfortune" and "How the Jew cheats." Germany, 1936.

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Summary

  • Police State
  • Germany is Nazified
  • All become national Socialist
  • Rule by fear and violence