Hitler’s Germany

The Economic Miracle Refused to pay reparations from VT Hybrid Economy: Some industry nationalized (VW) Capitalist (free business) allowed to flourish

The Economic Miracle Public works projects : Roads (the autobahn), parks, dams, and rebuilding industry

The Economic Miracle Unemployment rates drop dramatically! - 6 million in January Million in July 1933 and continues to decrease. HUGE “BUY IN” factor for the Nazis!

The Military under the Nazis Began to rearm (against VT) No size limitations Industry geared up for war material = greatness of Germany and the Reich

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.

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

Propaganda: The key to misinformation

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

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

Society: Maintaining Control 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.

Maintaining Control SA -Original Nazi Street thugs Sturmabteilung The Secret Police- Gestapo Gestapo The SS -Originally Hitler’s Body Guards Schutzstaffel The SD- Secret police of the SS Sicherheitsdienst Sicherheitsdienst

Hitler thought that men were superior to women and didn’t believe that women should work. He thought that their main role was to stay at home and have children. Hitler wanted women to have children to continue the Aryan race in Germany. Society: Women in Nazi Germany

In 1933 Hitler passed the law for “Encouragement of marriage” which allowed newly married couples to receive a loan of 1000 marks. If a couple had one child, they only had to pay back 75% of the loan, if they had 2, then 50%. If they had 4 children the loan would be cleared. To pay for these loans Hitler heavily taxed people with no children. Law for “Encouragement of Marriage”

Unmarried women were encouraged to have children by Lebensorn Clinics, where an unmarried Aryan women would be fertilized by a “racially pure” SS man. Lebensorn Clinics

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 Eugenics

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

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

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