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

• 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

• Black people

• Jews

• Gypsies

• Mentally disabled

• Physically disabled