WEIMAR GERMANY AND THE RISE OF HITLER 1919-1933

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HITLER's GERMANY
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The Young People

• Nazi Party many ways of controlling the lives
  and influencing the thoughts of the German people
• People were watched everywhere at work, at
  school, even at home!
• A blockwart PARTY REPRESENTATIVE in every street

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The Young People

• There was also the Gestapo and the SS
• In these ways, Hitler established a totalitarian
  dictatorship where the government controlled
  every aspect of peoples lives

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The Young People

• Hitler was especially keen to win over the minds
  of young people
• Education was carefully controlled
• There was Race Studies as well as German, History
  and Geography
• Children were encouraged to be loyal to their
  Fuhrer (leader), to put him and their fatherland
  above everything else

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The Young People

• Hitler Youth Movements Girls and boys encouraged
  to join this organisation
• Divided into different sections according to age
• Those who did not join found it difficult to get
  in the University or to find jobs after leaving
  school

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The Young People

• Little Fellows (6-10)
• German Young People (10 to 14)
• Hitler Youth (14 to 18)
• Young Maidens (up to 14)
• League of German Maidens (14 to 21)

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The Young People

• The Hitler Youth was another way of getting young
  people to believe in Nazi ideas
• Older boys did a lot of physical exercises to
  prepare for military service in the German Army

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The Jews

• Nazis had always attacked the Jews
• Jews were blamed for all of Germanys problems
• Once in power, the Nazis began a campaign of
  anti-semitic persecution

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The Jews

• Jews were arrested and beaten up
• Many forced out of their jobs
• Jewish shops had slogans painted over their
  windows
• People were discouraged from buying their goods
• Many left Germany but most stayed
• They had nowhere else to go

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The Jews

• Between 1933 and 1938, laws discriminating
  against Jews were passed
• Jews were not allowed in the civil service and
  the judiciary
• Jews were not considered German citizens
• Jews could not take part in economic activity
• Jews had to carry identity cards and passports
  which identified them as Jews

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The Jews

• 1935 Nuremberg Laws
• forbade Jews to marry non-Jews
• Persecution turned violent in 1938
• Mass murder of Jews what the Nazis called The
  Final Solution to the Jewish problem did not
  take place until after the outbreak of WWII