Essay on Nazism's Effect on the German Society

Hitler had initiated changes that insisted women should return to their traditional roles as homemakers and provide healthy offspring to the Nazi state. Childbearing was encouraged in Germany, however this was only acceptable to the Aryans not the Jews. Hitler implemented policies such as financial incentive marriage loans and special medals were given to women who gave birth to large families. He also made divorce difficult, abortion and contraception illegal in order to achieve his objective effectively. Also, women‚ organizations were created to indoctrinate women with Nazi ideas such as, The German Women‚ Enterprise. These programs promoted cookery classes, marriage, motherhood and nationhood. The women organizations have had a major effect on Nazi women as it portrayed that Hitler made effective changes in order to develop women to be the mothers of a future, healthy generation. Hitler disliked clever, educated

Hitler wanted his race to have no weaknesses. If women didn’t work, there would be increased family allowance and the honour Cross of German Mother Hood. Woman would be offered extra payments from the Nazi’s if they were to stay at home and create these Aryan race children, mothers were rewarded with money for the work they did. This was all introduced in order to entice Women from the work place back to there home’s and to have babies. Increasing the population was a well thought out plan for the future made by Hitler; he did have long term plans for himself and Volksgemeinschaft.

From 1933, the Nazis Party have aimed to create the policy of Volksgemeinschaft, this is a component focused on the heart of the people’s community based on traditional values of the German people. The German society underwent radical changes under the Nazi regime as Hitler introduced various policies that have had a substantial effect on 6 prominent groups: German women, youth, schools and universities and churches, working class and the Jews. The implementation of Hitler’s new policies in the period 1933-1939 can be assessed to have significantly effected and transformed Germany society socially and culturally.

Although Hitler’s motives were more clear towards the end of World War II, Adolf did tackle the unemployment and stimulate Germany’s failing economy. Once Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on January 30th, 1933 The economic policy for Hitler’s regime involved large scale borrowing for public expenditures which created railroads, canals, and the Autobahnen or the German highway network. The result of Hitler’s economic policy was more effective against unemployment than any other country. By late 1935 , unemployment was almost eliminated and by 1936 high income was pulling up prices or making it possible to raise them. By the late 1930s Germany had full employment at stable prices. This was, in the industrial world, a unique achievement. Hitler was able to anticipate modern economic policy as well, he recognized that a rapid approach to full employment is only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. A nation oppressed by economic fears would not fare well for Hitler’s endeavors. Two days after Hitler took office as Chancellor, Adolf addressed the nation by radio and had proclaimed that the new government would “achieve the great task of reorganizing our nation’s economy by means of two great four-year plans. The German farmer must be rescued to maintain the nation’s food supply and, in consequence, the nation’s vital foundation. The German worker will be saved from ruin with a concerted and all-embracing attack against unemployment.” Hitler continued to

Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.

Boys were taught about military service and girls about housekeeping. Both did camping and other activities to unite with others and serve Germany together. Parents were encouraged to have many children such that more youths could join this scheme. Secondly Germans were also brainwashed into discrimination against Jews and other minorities via the media such that the atrocities against them were justified. They also, through broadcasts and newspapers (heavily censored by Nazis), rallies and march parties like the annual Nuremberg rally, developed pro-Nazi sentiments. Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Enlightenment & Propaganda, placed loudspeakers everywhere such that Germans all heard Hitler's speeches and controlled all forms of art. Hitler also promised law and order unlike in Bolshevism, economic expansion and a ‘Greater Germany' instead of one undermined by the Treaty of Versailles (he tore it up). Germans also took pride in the latest technological advancements in Germany and their state-of-the-art stadium for the 1936 Olympics, where they enjoyed a sterling performance, which Goebbels used to prove the notion of Aryan superiority. Thirdly religion was also controlled with all churches branching out from one central Reich Church that revered Nazi policies. Priests and nuns who disagreed were imprisoned. Hitler even had the audacity to suggest an alternative

At first, Germany was no different than it was before Hitler’s Chancellorship, but it wasn’t long until things began to take a sharp turn on a road that had never been traveled before. Hitler soon adopted a policy called “coordination” which aligned individualism with Nazi goals. In doing this, Hitler aimed to create a volk community, “a society that would transcend class and religious differences” (Third Reich:An overview). The creation of the volk community however, would remain a near impossible feat until Hitler gained the power to put make his goals a reality, which he eventually did. First, The Reichstag Fire Decree, permitted the suspension of basic civil rights and then the SS, Hitler’s “army” gained control over the police. Soon after, the Civil Services Act of 1933 was passed, and this law gave German authorities

The Nazis, throughout their control of Germany, attempted to rid themselves of what they considered weak in their army. Weakness to them was any sort of free thinking, defiance, mercy, and anything they deemed inferior to their ideals. To drive their army to rid their idea of weak, the Nazis provoked emotions of shame and fear in those associated with weakness. Which can be seen in Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi when Hans is just a child in a Hitler Youth school and answer what he felt about a fox eating a rabbit. When Hans says “thee poor rabbit” he is then promptly yelled at and sent to sit in the corner while wearing a dunce cap. This humiliation along with his peer’s answers of “the world belongs to the strong…the rabbit was a coward and deserved to die” (Geronimi, Education for Death) influenced Hans into hating the rabbit for being weak. These instilled ideas of weakness in the German children led them to attempt and weed out the weak by putting them through humiliation or death. All the Light We Cannot See displays the Nazi ideal of driving out the weak during Werner’s time at the training school. While Werner was attending, there was periodic checks by the schoolmaster asking who was the weakest in their group. During so, schoolmaster’s would says “Just as we ask you to each drive the weakness from your own bodies, so you must also learn to drive the weaknesses from the corps” (Doerr 168). The schoolmaster presents just how important strength is to the

“The Nazis espoused values including fervent nationalism, a rejection of the military restrictions placed on Germany at the end of the World War I, and the ethnic purity of the German nation” (“Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Historical Context”). This goes to show that the Nazi Party was trying to make their world more perfect by making their military much more powerful than it could be. The Nazi Party disguised their plans as a

During the Holocaust six million Jews died at the hands of a despicable man; Adolf Hitler. While many perished in the extermination camps, malnutrition, disease, execution and medical experimentation were other methods of the Jews annihilation. In 1933, before WW II there were approximately nine million Jews living in Germany. By the end of WW II six million Jews had died. In this paper the researcher will attempt to give accurate accounts as to how Adolf Hitler came to power, why he killed innocent people, and where the carnage began. The researcher will attempt to accurately show when the Holocaust began and who was affected by one man and his follower’s beliefs of their superiority over others.

Hitler believed that a population that was racially pure would enhance Germany's military strength. This is why women were encouraged to bear as many “Aryan”, or “Pure” children as possible. In 1936 SS leaders created a program known as Lebensborn or fount of life. Lebensborn was were series of clinics spread around Germany where pregnant women could give birth in secret(Landler). For a pregnant women to give birth in a Lebensborn, they had to have the right racial characteristics, blonde hair, blue eyes, no genetic disorders, and they had to be able to prove the identity of father.

By the end of the 1930’s, all boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen were mandated to participate in the Nazi youth groups that were created to increase the number of young people dedicated to the Nazi Party. Propaganda played an important role in the advancement of the radical program set forth by the Nazi Party. The need for cooperation from a large portion of their country’s population was essential if the operations were to be successful. Therefore, a new propaganda apparatus was introduced in order to deceive the outside world and German citizens with greater success than previously. Leaders of the Nazi Party preached a message of national unity and an idealistic future, which appealed to the citizens of

One way Hitler persuaded the German people was through propaganda. A specific example of how Hitler and the Nazis used propaganda to generate obedience was to create the ‘perfect race’. Hitler and the Nazis adopted the Darwinian evolutionary theory, expressing the statement of survival of the fittest. Hitler used pseudo-scientific (falsified) research to support claims that Germans were the master race that would lead mankind. Hitler said that one of the causes that Germany lost World War I was because the German race was weakened through Aryans marrying non-Aryans. In order to make Germany strong again, the Nazis had to ensure the absolute purity of the Aryan race (Pine). Through propaganda posters, Hitler encouraged this image by showing

reason objectively since they are ruled only by emotion."3 The Nazi state required women to be conservative, in which they wore long skirts, flat shoes, no makeup, no hair dye, non-smokers, and most importantly broad hips for childbirth4. Nonetheless various benefits came with the philosophies put forth by the regime. ‘Genetically healthy ' couples were entitled to loans up to 1000 Reichsmarks, offered only if the woman was unemployed; in addition, a quarter of the loan was paid by the government for every child the couple had. Furthermore, families with three or more children were entitled to reduced rail fares, electricity bills, and gas bills5.

Evaluate the impact of Nazism in Germany on at least one minority group throughout the 1930’s.