How did the Nazis affect the lives of the German people?
How did the Nazis affect the lives of the German people?
The lives of millions of people of people living in Germany dramatically changed during Hitler's reign as chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. The changes were felt the most by the 600,000 Jews living in Germany. These changes were caused by Hitler's passion to reach his three objectives, which were: -
. To achieve order on Germany's economy.
2. To reinvent Germany as a powerful nation.
3. To create a "Pure Germany" by ridding Germany of non-pure races, especially the Jews.
Nazi social policy on.
Women.
In the 1920's Germany's women had rights and freedom that other women from other countries only ever dreamt of. Under the ruling of the Nazis, women lost their rights and were forced back into their more traditional role of wife and mother. Source 1.1 shows Hitler's outlook of women and his expectations of women.
Religion.
Hitler wanted to be worshipped and wanted to be a leader himself as shown in source 1.2. This source is a song sung by the Hitler Youth. They sing Jesus is nothing and that Hitler was there "leader, our redeemer and our feeder.
Hitler Youth.
Hitler was thinking about war when he came into power. He wanted a large army and he wanted a young army. He started the Hitler Youth to try and persuade the young boys of Germany to join the army and to fight for Germany. Sources 1.3 and 1.4 show Hitler's Passion for an army and the increase of number of children in the Hitler Youth.
Year
Total membership of Hitler Youth.
Total population (aged 10-18 years)
932
933
934
935
936
937
938
939
07,956
2,292,041
3,577,565
3,943,303
5,437,601
5,879,955
7,031,226
7,287,470
7,529,000
7,682,000
8,172,000
8,656,000
9,060,000
9,109,000
8,870,000
Nazi Economic Control.
Unemployment.
Year
January
July
932
6,42,000
5,392,000
933
6,014,000
4,464,000
934
3,773,000
2,426,000
935
2,974,000
,754,000
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Year
Total membership of Hitler Youth.
Total population (aged 10-18 years)
932
933
934
935
936
937
938
939
07,956
2,292,041
3,577,565
3,943,303
5,437,601
5,879,955
7,031,226
7,287,470
7,529,000
7,682,000
8,172,000
8,656,000
9,060,000
9,109,000
8,870,000
Nazi Economic Control.
Unemployment.
Year
January
July
932
6,42,000
5,392,000
933
6,014,000
4,464,000
934
3,773,000
2,426,000
935
2,974,000
,754,000
936
2,520,000
,170,000
937
,853,000
563,000
938
,052,000
218,000
939
302,000
38,000
When Hitler became chancellor of Germany the countries' unemployment was disastrous as shown in source 1.5. Hitler changed all of that by giving jobs to the unemployed such the building the autobahn for the army to travel around easier. Hitler also made clear that he would not tolerate any strike action, as 20,339 thousand days were lost in strike action in 1928 and only 96 thousand in 1933.
Economy.
Year
Germany
USA
Britain
933
934
935
936
937
938
939
940
941
942
943
944
945
3
6
8
3
3
7
23
38
47
55
61
?
?
2
1
31
42
42
36
3
3
2
5
7
8
22
53
60
64
63
62
53
Food
927/8
933/4
938/9
Bread
Potatoes
Vegetables
Sugar
Meat
Eggs
Fats
79
96
84
00
91
64
44
99
00
90
99
98
80
53
15
00
91
01
97
82
57
When Hitler became chancellor of Germany, the country's economy was in a very bad state. One of his priorities was to achieve order on the economy. Hitler wanted to rearm the German army and source 1.6 shows us Hitler's drive for rearmament with the military expenditure. Sources 1.5 and 1.6 show us that Hitler's aim of rebuilding Germany's "ruined economy" started to work. Hitler would be seen sometimes doing "common" jobs to publicise the Nazi party as a party people could relate to. Hitler saved money by developing Germany as a self-sufficient country. Sources 1.7 and 1.8 show the Nazi's drive towards self-sufficiency in important foods and important commodities.
Outputs
Outputs
Outputs
Plan Target
Commodity
936
938
942
940
Oils and petrol
Aluminium
Buna rubber
Explosives
Steel
Coal
,790
98
0.7
8
9,216
31,9782
2,340
66
5
45
22,656
38,1171
6,260
260
96
300
20,480
411,977
3,830
273
20
223
24,000
453,500
Education, Censorship and Propaganda.
Education.
During Hitler's reign as chancellor of Germany he ordered for all history textbooks to be burnt because they recited the wrong history. Due to the depression Germany became a weak nation but Hitler did not want Germany to be known as a weak nation. Once he had burnt all the history textbooks he wrote new ones reciting Germany's "glorious and successful" past. Hitler brainwashed children into war by giving them war-based questions in arithmetic, shown in source 1.9.
Censorship.
At his peak Hitler controlled the majority of the German people's minds. Hitler managed to brainwash people into thinking that he was a good man and that everyone else were set out to get Germany and its people. As Albert Speer a Nazi Minister once said, "Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of it's own country". What this meant was that Hitler used the technology available such as the radio to dictate to a lot more people.
Propaganda.
Hitler's point of view could be seen and heard everywhere in Germany during his reign as chancellor. This shows Hitler wanted to be known everywhere in Germany and wanted to be acknowledged. Hitler cleverly censored all permitted forms of art and entertainment to reflect his point of view; this is shown in source 2.0. The censoring of the art and entertainment in the country meant that the people of Germany were seeing lies and weren't being shown the truth.
Police State.
Judiciary.
Source 2.1explains the role of the judge in Germany by a Nazi legal expert, Professor Karl Eckhardt. They were seen as the ones to punish and the ones to "referee" the arguments in the local community. Source 2.2 shows just how much power the Gestapo and the court had over the people of Germany.
The Gestapo.
The Gestapo were the secret state police in Germany. Formally organized after the Nazi's seized power in 1933 the Gestapo's job was to round up all the Jews and other "undesirables" living within Germany's newly conquered territories and to either send them to concentration camps or put them to death. Source 2.3 shows us that the Gestapo were given a lot of power because not even the courts could review their investigations.
