The Nazi Regime Of The Weimar Republic And The Creation Of A Terror State

On April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria to Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl. In the early days of Hitler’s life, he was an unrestrained and carefree child who lived a happy life. His mother was very caring and affectionate towards him while his father spent most of his time either at work or following his hobby of keeping bees. Hitler had an older brother named Alois Hitler Jr. and an older sister named Angela, and a few years after he was born his mom gave birth to another son named Edmund and another sister named Paula. After his father retired and Hitler started to go to school his life began to change. He was no longer able to live his previous carefree lifestyle and now his strict father was going to be watching

The policies towards women suffered because they tended to contradict other policies. For example, the Hitler Youth took away the children from the family environment and to challenge any non Nazi opinions from their parents. This somewhat differs from the image of a healthy, happy Aryan family that the state desired to be commonplace throughout the country. During the Second World War procreation outside marriage was seen as acceptable, and the Lebensborn programme opened what were essentially state run brothels. The policies also failed to keep women in the home, as a result of the economic recovery. As the need for workers grew, a conflict between ideology and economic

Due to the failure of the Weimar Republic and general public dissatisfaction arising from poor economic conditions exacerbated by the Treaty of Versailles, coupled with the 1929 Wall Street Crash, German citizens were understandably desperate for change. Until this point in time the Nazi party, and Hitler, had been essentially unpopular. However, the economic situation ensured Hitler’s increasing popularity as the people looked toward more extreme but non-communist ideals. The initial consolidation of Nazi power in 1933 arose from key events such as the support of the Nationalist Party with the Nazis to form a coalition government, implementation of the Enabling

At the end of WWI, Germany was directly blamed for causing the great conflict. Many Germans could not accept this blame, and believed designed by the Jewish people as part of a greater conspiracy. Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. The Nazi rise to power ended the Weimar Republic, the German democracy that was established after World War I. The Nazi state, also called The Third Reich, quickly became a regime in which citizens had no guaranteed basic rights. Hitler’s first objective was to eliminate political opposition. The assault against the Jews began with a boycott of Jewish businesses. A week later the Nazis dismissed Jews from civil service, and by the end of the month the participation of Jews in German schools was restricted. In May 1933, thousands of Nazi students and professors stormed university libraries and bookstores in cities throughout Germany to

Burleigh is further substantiated by Heyman who states that ‘women lost most of the new positions in the labour force they had occupied during the wartime year”. This suggests that women were easy and cheap to employ and when no longer needed they were dismissed so men could return to their old positions, thus showing the decline in their status. Women were unhappy about being forced into their homes and were treated like servants rather than respected for this role. Victor Klemperer, a diarist whose journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under Nazi rule during the third Reich. He states, ‘a son even the youngest today laughs in his mothers face. He regards her as the natural servant’.This shows how the next generation saw women’s role as worthless therefore decreasing their status. Victor Klemperer experienced this first hand and wrote them in his diaries and from his own memories so can be considered as credible source. Furthermore women were removed from many jobs as time went on. This therefore left them with no other choice but to have children. “Moreover, in the economy as a whole two thirds of married women were still not registered as employed on the eve of the war in 1939. If they did work, it was often as unregistered, part time cleaners

During the 1930’s Germany was at an all time low as the worldwide economic depression hit Germany hard. The confidence in Germany from the people was lacking due to the fresh memory of their defeat in World War I. This caused great need of a new leader, someone who could give the people change, and Adolf Hitler knew he could do just that. His rapid rise to power began when he started to promise things that intrigued the German people. He promised the hopeless and needy a better life, and promised opportunities that were exactly what the people needed. This caught the attention of so many young unemployed and middle class people. His party, known as the Nazi Party, won 33 percent of the votes in the 1932 elections. And by January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor, which was the head of the German government. Germany started to feel like they might've found the leader they'd been so desperate for.

In the book Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Alison Owings, we are provided with plenty of women who describe their lives before, during and after Hitler received power. This book provides us with different views of the time era and as well as how the impact of Hitler affected every woman differently through social class, age, marital status and etc. This paper will explore the lives of three German women who seem to be in the Grey area during the over control of Hitler but mostly with the killings of the Jews. This paper will further explore the complicity and the different levels of resistance that these three women had during this time era which is 1933-1945. The three women that will be discussed in this paper are Margarete (Margrit) Fischer, Ellen Frey, and Christine (Tini) Weihs. When looking into the lives of all three women these women it seems as though women didn’t have much of a responsibility for the events that were happening around them. Although these women seemed to be complaint to a certain degree with the events there were going on around them. These women would have been complaint due to the fear of what happened to Germans when they stood against the events that took part.

In the lead up to the depression the Nazis had 12 seats and just two years later in the peak of the economic crisis the Nazis had 107 seats. This reflects the dissatisfaction that was shown in the present government and the fact that Hitler was the only person who promised the solutions that they people wanted. Many historians have stated that if Stressman had not died in 1929 then Germany may have recovered to its former strength and Hitler may never had the chance at gaining power. From 1930 onwards the country is being ruled by presidential decree through the use of Article 48, so therefore no party could gain a majority for the German economy to get back on its feet. Hitler took advantage of these times of hardship and promised these desperate people what they wanted, employment and a way out of these poverty times. Hitler was the only option left, and is desperate time people look for desperate politics to solve these problems. Weimar

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.

There was quite a big difference between the Nazi ideal of women staying at home and the reality of improving the German economy and rearming for war. Indeed, there were serious shortages in the number of workers and therefore women were employed in increasingly large numbers as time went on. By 1939 women made up 37% of the German workforce. This clearly shows that the Nazis have completely contradicted themselves and gone against the policies that they created. This is another reason which shows that the Nazi Policies on women did indeed fail.

This investigation addresses the topic of to what extent the role of German women in Nazi society was only confined to traditional roles such as motherhood. The books Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields and Nazi Family Policy: 1933-1945 provide different perspectives on the perceived role of German women. Nazi Family Policy is important in examining Nazi ideology regarding family. Hitler’s Furies challenges these beliefs of the Nazi Policy by discussing the active roles played by German women in Nazi genocide.

On January 30, 1933, Hitler was made Chancellor, and used his ranking to have absolute power over Germany. He also decided to strengthen his

Nazi Germany was between the dates of 1933-1939. Throughout this essay, Conditions in Germany when Hitler came to power including the impact of the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression and the weakness of the Weimar republic, will be discussed. The Concept of a Totalitarian State and how Hitler and the Nazi party developed in Germany through the use of force, controlled education, militarism, propaganda, economic policies, and no political opposition. Some of the Positives that came from Nazi Germany were increased prosperity including full employment and economic growth, regaining lost territories, increased national prestige and pride, and the hosting of 1936 Olympics. Some of the Negatives that came from Nazi Germany were Persecution of minorities, loss of personal freedoms, economic growth focused on the military, and expansionism as a path to war. This essay will re-state weather Nazi Germany was an overall positive or negative experience for people in Germany.

Two important social changes occurred in the early 19th century, which affected the role of women in society. After World War One, Germany's birth rate had decelerated from “Over 2 million births to under 1 million” (Layton, Germany, the Third Reich). Additionally, female employment had expanded by at least one third, due to changes in industrial countries. Contraception was also common, as it “Improved standard of living,” giving women an option of an education and career along with having a family (Layton, Germany, the Third Reich). Women’s role in society changed after World War one because economic mobilisation led woman back into the factories to work. Inflation also meant from World War One, women were expected to work instead of their ‘normal’ duties. With the war over, there was a “surplus of over 1.8 million marriable women” (Layton, Germany, the Third Reich). Changing economy led the women into the factories as hard labour was in demand, with women being paid less than men. Women behaved more liberally in the Weimar, as the constitution left women in a relatively progressive power. Women could vote, which ultimately changed the way people looked at them in society. “Under the constitution, women had been given absolute equality with men” (Mason, Germany 1918-1945). Social changes after World War One, allowed women to be given freedom and role in society, with Nazi policies

In his speech, Goebbels clearly establishes this different mission as “the most glorious task […] to give the gift of children to her people and nation,” , since without women to bear their offspring, the Nazis would not be able to fulfill their goal of a perfect Aryan population. The Nazis also stressed the idea of creating a new and improved Volksgemeinschaft, or people’s community. In previous years, leading to what the Nazis refer to as Germany’s decline, they state that men did not feel the need to prove themselves as masculine in public life, thus leading to the feminization of the male and in consequence, the masculinization of the female. Goebbels addresses this “frightening, nearly terrifying conclusion” and emphasizes once more the importance that women do not attempt to stray from her duty as a mother in her family. He is constantly accentuating on the idea that their upgraded Volksgemeinschaft can only succeed with women as good housewives, bearer of children, educators to said children and as long as the wives stay loyal to their husbands and the Nazi party. In this first speech, it was