IMPACT OF NAZI REIGME

Aryanisation

Transfer of Jewish property to non-Jewish Germans

Racial Policy Timeline - villianification

1933-1934

• Nazi propaganda aimed to make Germans dislike and fear Jews.

• April 1933: National boycott of Jewish businesses.

• Jews were sacked from civil service jobs.

• University restrictions placed on Jews.

• July 1933: Jews denied marriage loans.

• October 1934: Jews excluded from the media and arts.

Discrimination

1935

• Nuremberg Race Laws stripped Jews of citizenship and rights.

• Reich Citizenship Law: Jews lost all rights associated with German citizenship.

• Jews were scapegoated for Germany’s failures in WWI, the Treaty of Versailles, and economic issues.

• Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour: Banned marriages and relationships between Jews and Germans.

Separation

• Jews progressively removed from society and resettled in the East.

• Jews realized their lives, not just social standing, were at risk

Cultural Expression and Social Life - 1933

The Reich Chamber of Culture regulated arts and banned “disruptive” artists.

Cultural Expression and Social Life - 1937

• Exhibition of Degenerate Art condemned modern art, associating it with Jews

• Over 5,000 modern artworks were removed from German museums.

Cultural Expression and Social Life - film + music

• Nazi-approved art idealized Aryan bodies, family life, and rural existence.

• Films were censored for propaganda; e.g., The Triumph of the Will (1935), The Eternal Jew (1939).

• Classical music was promoted; jazz and swing were banned as “degenerate.”

Women

• Mothers and homemakers to support state growth.

• Excluded from higher positions in public life and higher education.

• Reinforced by Nazi propaganda

• Slogan: "Kinder, Küche, Kirche" (Children, Kitchen, Church).

• Financial incentives were offered for women to stay at home and have children.

• Women with four or more children were awarded the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

• Lebensborn program encouraged racially pure women to have children outside marriage to increase the Aryan population.

Education and Religion

• Education was used to indoctrinate children with Nazi ideology (obedience, militarism, racism, anti-Semitism).

• New textbooks emphasized love for Hitler and the state, and physical development.

• Teachers who didn’t support Nazism were removed.

• Nazis attempted to control religion to prevent competing loyalties

• 1933: The Nazis signed a concordat with the Catholic Church, which was later broken.

• The Protestant Church split over Nazism; in 1935, the Reich Church was created, and opposition churches persecuted.

Youth

• The Hitler Youth was vital for Nazi indoctrination.

• Boys were trained for military service, while girls were prepared for motherhood.

• Emphasis on physical fitness and good health through outdoor activities

Workers

• Economic policies reduced unemployment through public works and rearmament programs.

• Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) offered leisure activities, including the creation of the Volkswagen (people's car).

• Independent trade unions were abolished, replaced by the Nazi Labour Front which controlled wages and conditions.

Reich Labour Service (1935): Compulsory six-month state service for citizens aged 18-25