Transcript How Did Nazi Rule Affect The Germans?

How Did Nazi Rule Affect The
Germans?
Nazi Effect on Germans
• The Nazi State affected different people in
different ways
• For most people, life was good
Nazi Party Members
• Were especially happy
Ordinary People
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Life was good
Had jobs
There was law and order
Autobahns improved
Frequent ceremonies- added color and excitement
Propaganda gave people hope
Sense of security
Drawbacks for Ordinary People
• Wages fell and strikers could be shot
• Loss of personal freedoms
• All culture had to be approved
Women
• Were seen as child-bearer and creator of
family
• Law for the Encouragement of Marriage
– Gave newlyweds a loan of 1,000 marks
– Could keep 250 marks for each child they had
• Mothers who had more than 8 children were
given a gold medal
Youth
• Nazi culture was youth-oriented
• NJ had exciting activities for young boys
• Nazis treated young men and women as
though they were special
• Told youth they knew more than their
parents
Opponents
• Used fear and horror against anyone who
disapproved of their regime
• Trade Unions banned
• Communists put in camps or killed
• Many protestant pastors were persecuted or
executed
• ‘grumblers’ were murdered or sent to camps
Untermensch
• Means subhuman
• People the Nazis thought were racially or
socially inferior
• “germs of destruction”
Untermensch
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Black people
Jews
Gypsies
Mentally disabled
Physically disabled