HAEC IB History 04 Hitler's domestic policies

6 million to 200,000

Change in unemployment between 1933 and 1938.

1.3 million

Number of men conscripted into the army, reducing unemployment.

National Labour Service (RAD)

Compulsory labour service for men aged 18-25.

12bn to 40bn Reichsmarks

Change in the national debt between 1933 and 1938.

Four Year Plan

Economic plan launched in 1936 that focused on rearmament.

Overy

'Economic progress in the 1930s was not very remarkable ... by 1937 the economy was only just above the level reached 25 years before.'

Noakes and Pridham

1. 'There had been a distinct improvement in most people's material circumstances since 1933.'

Albert Speer

Minister of Armaments 1942-45.

Kinder, Küche, Kirche (children, kitchen, church)

Nazi slogan on the role of women.

Mason

'There is scarcely any evidence that the policies adopted on the family and on women's work were unpopular.'

1 million to 1.4 million

Increase in number of births between 1933 and 1939.

25%

The percentage of the 1000 RM marriage loan cancelled for the birth of each child.

4, 6, 8

The number of children required for each category of the Mother's Cross medal.

Lebensborn (Fount of Life)

Programme to encourage unmarried women to have a baby with a member of the SS.

Epstein

'On balance, the Nazi measures to increase the birth rate were ineffective.'

37% to 31%

Decline in the female proportion the workplace between 1933 and 1937 (before going back up again so that by 1939 it was the same as in 1933).

Statement from the Ministry of Education

'The whole purpose of Education is to create Nazis.'

97%

Percentage of teachers who joined the Nazi Teachers' League.

Racial science / eugenics

New subject introduced in schools.

Fischer

'At best, the Nazis put a thin ideological veneer on German education.'

Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth)

Youth group for 14-18 year old boys.

Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Maidens)

Youth group for 14-18 year old girls.

Wilt

'95 per cent of the German youth backed the Nazis.'

Swing Kids, Edelweiss Pirates, White Rose

Examples of youth opposition groups.

Josef Goebbels

Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.

Reich Church

An umbrella organisation set up to control Protestant Churches in Germany.

German Faith Movement

The SS-led attempt at replacing Christianity with a pagan religion.

3% to 82%

Growth in Nazi ownership of newspapers between 1933 and 1944.

Volksempfänger (People's Receiver)

Cheap radio that only had one station, owned by 70% of households by 1939.

Adam

'The cultural infiltration of every sphere of life never ceased.'

Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will)

Film made by Leni Riefenstahl about the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)

An infamous 1940 film that depicted Jews as a parasitic race within the nation.

Volksgemeinschaft

Means 'People's Community' - a concept reinforced by the targeting of 'outsiders'.

350,000

Number of people sterilised for being 'mentally ill' between 1933 and 1945.

T4

The program which killed 200,000 disabled people between 1939 and 1944.

Asocials

A group that covered vagabonds, beggars, prostitutes, alcoholics and others.

Homosexuals

15,000 were imprisoned in concentration camps, forced to wear a pink triangle.

Nuremberg Laws

Laws passed in 1935 that deprived Jews of German citizenship and banned the marriage between Jews and non-Jews.

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

The name of a violent pogrom against Jews in November 1938.

Wannsee Conference

The meeting in January 1942 that planned the 'Final Solution to the Jewish Question.'