Source ‘D’ dismisses any proposal for equal rights to women. The rhyme clearly encourages woman towards housework and tells them not to work in shops or offices. The rhyme claims that being a housewife will get you a man. The Nazis also encouraged women to have lots of children, which would be beneficial to the Nazis when it comes to recruiting the army in the future. The Nazis encouraged the women to have children by giving out medals; they would give a gold medal for having 8 children, silver medal for having 6 children and a bronze medal for having 4 children. The jobs which the Nazis wanted women to do were nursing and kindergarten teaching and of course housework.
The Nazis believed that men and women had different roles in life and they did not allow women to be involved in any important way in the Nazi party.
Sources E, F and G are useful for finding out how life was in Nazi Germany in the 1930’s as there are three different points of views. Source E is the most useful as a German citizen talks about life in Germany. The man doesn’t say anything positive about the Nazi regime and also talks about work. He says that he was earning good money and now he is having to work harder than before and wages keep dropping. He says he was working in his own trade and was at home suggesting that now he may be part of the army. He is unhappy at how Germany is being run and feels that somebody ‘needs to say so’.
Source F has the comments of an American writer exposing the truth about unemployment. This writer calls this ‘ invisible unemployment’. The writer tells us that ‘the number of unemployment Jews was great and increasing’, ‘there has been wholesale discharge of women and of unmarried men under 25’. Part time workers are counted as full time workers and conscription took hundreds of young men off the labour market. All this information lets us know that many people including David Lloyd George were deceived because they all praised the achievements of Hitler.
Source G is the report of David Lloyd George after he returned from the visit of Germany. He was convinced that Hitler achieved a ‘ marvellous change’ in people’s spirits and their economic and social outlook. From sources E and F we know that the views of David Lloyd George were very much mistaken, we know that wages kept going down and people were unhappy with the Nazi ruling, what David Lloyd George said was: ‘ he (Hitler) has achieved a marvellous change in the spirit of the people, and their economic and social outlook’. In source E the man is unhappy and he is getting poorer because the wages keep dropping.
Life in Germany wasn’t as pleasant as thought by David Lloyd George and many citizens were unhappy and even angry by the Nazi ruling. The economic outlook wasn’t a good one as wages were continually decreasing which would have had a knock on effect to the social outlook because people couldn’t afford to go out and enjoy their selves as much as they would have liked to. For me source E was the most useful as the information was from a primary source and also proved that Hitler managed to deceive politicians from other countries.
Source D shows us that the Nazis encouraged women to be housewives, which meant that less people would require employment. In source E the unhappy man is saying his wages keep dropping, the money saved by the Nazis from wages could have been used to employ more people. The final source gives us the most information. I believe that ‘invisible unemployment’ was the main reason for the impressive graph in source A, the Nazis turned a blind eye on the problems of unemployment concerning a lot of people (Q4) and so they weren’t counted as unemployed when the graph was published. I think that when the Nazis first took control this was part of their initiative. I think they implemented their initiative in the early 1930’s because that’s when unemployment fell sharply according to the graph.
