Secondly, they felt the need to "control leisure". This was brought into action to a) keep the German youth out of trouble, and b) once again, so that the public also have a sweet spot for the government because of all the time they spent thinking of the public. The Germans tried to control people's leisure time. A branch of the German Labour Front, called 'Strength through Joy', organizing peoples leisure activities so that free time was not 'wasted'. Cheap holidays were arranged, including foreign travel and Mediterranean cruises. 'Strength through Joy' was also involved in the plan to manufacturer a car for the people, cheap enough for workers to buy.
Also, Hitler wanted to make Germany self-sufficient - that is, the country should be able to produce its own food and raw materials so that they did not have to depend upon other countries, which could turn out to be potential enemies. This policy was called autarky. A four-year plan was drawn up in 1936 with the aim of making Germany self-sufficient in four years. More raw materials, such as coal, oil, iron, and other metals were produced and synthetic raw materials such as rubber, fuel and textiles, were developed. New factories and industrial plants were built.
Finally, a large area for development was Rearmament. Another of Hitler's priorities after seizing power was to build up Germany's armed forces. This had a big impact on the unemployment figures. From 1935 onwards, all 18-to-25 year olds had to do military service for two year. The armed forces thus grew from 100,000 in 1933 to 1,400,000 in 1939, cutting over a million from the unemployment registers.
In 1934, a year after seizing power, Hitler ordered an increase in the armed forces. The army was to grow from 100,000 to 300,000 men. The navy was to build submarines and two battleships. An air force was to be created.
This was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles. If the Allies found out what was happening, there was a risk that they would invade Germany to stop it. So the armed forces expanded in secret. Air force pilots trained secretly in flying clubs. Bombers were disguised as airliners. In 1935 Hitler felt strong enough to start rearming openly. He announced that all men would have to do military service when they reached 18, and that the army would grow to 550,000 men. As Hitler had calculated, the Allies protested but did nothing to stop him.
To go against all of the above, there were some faults, which occurred. In the eyes of the working class the appointment of the Nazi rule was had its negative sides such as the Police State, which was governed with a large scale of bribery, and was all controlled by the Nazi's. Also, the amount of Propaganda that was all over was immense. There was an awful lot of information restricted to the public, so whatever you heard was most obviously contrived and marketed especially for the German people to hear. Finally, there was to be no Trade Union. On 2 May 1933, Nazis broke into trade-union offices all over the country and arrested thousands of union officials. The unions were then merged into a "Germany Labour Front". At its head was a Nazi.
There were also faults that concerned the middle class, such as the Hitler youth, which could be thought to benefit any child, but some also though of it as "brain washings" them, as all of it was selling propaganda and training the generation of the future. Also, the Nazi insisted there should be complete and utter control of the church. In 1933 Hitler signed a Concordat, or agreement, with the Pope. It said that the Nazis would not interfere in the Catholic Church. In return, the Pope ordered bishops to take an oath of loyalty to Hitler.
Hitler had no intention of keeping this agreement. Church schools were shut down. The Catholic Youth League was broken up. Many monasteries were closed.
The Pope protested in 1937 by issuing an encyclical. This was a letter to be read out in all Catholic churches in Germany. It condemned the Nazi's for being 'hostile to Christ and his Church'. But it had no effect. The Nazis not only continued to attack the Church but also started to arrest priests and put them into concentration camps.
Finally, the Nazis did not give anyone the choice to vote for a different political party, which meant that there was no immediate way to get rid of the Nazi party, and, in some eyes, especially Hitler.
After looking at the above information, I have to say I believe that the German public had to go through an intense period under the ruling of Hitler and feel there did not have it easy. As a summery I don’t think the Germans had a good period under the Nazi rule. There may have been a lot of privileges, but there were larger and much more serious negative sides to the time between 1933-1939, and I have respect for anyone who survived this ordeal!