IB History - Authoritarian States - Impact of Policies

women - aim of policies/why were they targeted

• Return to conservative social structures under Nazism.

• racial purity notions

• encourage ‘aryan’ women to have children

• tradition gender roles Kinder, Küche, Kirche - children, kitchen, church

women - treatment / policies

• 1933: Law for the Encouragement of Marriage - allowed interest free loans to new couples + encourage women to leave workforce + focus on children. loan of 1,000 Reichsmarks

• Mothers cross medal gold 8+ silver 6+ bronze 4+ (propaganda)

• 1935 lebensborn program - unmarried aryan women encouraged to bear SS children in/out of wedlock

women - impact

• Marriage rates increased from 500,000 marriages in 1932 to 700 000 by 1934. (2 years)

• societal pressures to reinforce ideological and conservatism under Nazi regime

women - quotes

The mission of women is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world. - Joseph Goebbels (sucessor + chancellor after hitler died)

jewish people - aim of policies/why were they targeted

• racial antisemitism blamed for ww1 defeat, treaty of versailles and economic crisis

• racial threat to ‘aryans’

• unwilling to accept Christian church + word of god

jewish people - treatment/policies

• 1935 - Nuremberg laws - prohibited german jews to have relationships with germans

• 1938 - reich ministry banned all jewish children from going to school

• 1939 ‘ghettos’ forced jewish communities into ghettos’

• 1940 auschwitz established and opened - 1 mill jews were murdered there.

jewish people - impact

• 6 million jews killed by the end of WW2

• 2 mill killed in mash shooting operations

• led to establishment of Israel state - generational trauma

jewish people - quotes

the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe - Hitler speech in Reichstag 1939

people with disabilities - aims of policies/why they were targeted

• social burden to society

• threat to the ‘aryan race’

• racially pure and strong population - “survival of the fittest”

people with disabilities - treatment/policies

• Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases (1933) forced sterilization of people with mental/physical disabilities -

• Aktion T4 program - euthanasia in gas chambers of people who had any disabilities

• children sent to hospitals with disabilities

people with disabilities - impact

• 400,000 people forced sterilization

• 200,000 approx aktion t4 program

• 5,000 children starvation + legal injection

people with disabilities - quotes

“Wartime is the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill” - Hitler