1. Social Impact (Part Two)

3.  How is the Jew depicted
in this poster?
 Anti-Semitism
 Hostility to or prejudic
against Jews

4.  Jews blamed for all of
Germany’s problems:
 WWI Defeat
 TOV
 Weimar Government
 Hyperinflation
 Great Depression

5.  1933: Nazis called for national boycott of Jewish
businesses
 Hurt Jews financially and to separate them from the rest

6.  1934: Marking of Jewish shops with Star of David of
‘Juden’ (Jew)
 Businesses and properties taken away
 Jews also deprived of their professions, especially those
in the civil service

7.  1935: Nuremberg Laws
 The exclusion of Jews from German society by
depriving/stripping them of German citizenship
 Jews not allowed to marry non-Jews

8.  Night of Broken Glass (1938)
 Nazis looted and destroyed Jewish shops. Home and
synagogues were burned. Jews were attacked and killed
and many were sent to concentration camps.

9.  The Holocaust
 Liquidation of Ghettoes
 The ‘Final Solution’
 The systematic extermination of Jews
 Death marches, gas chambers, working to death

11.  Gypsies, homosexuals, the handicapped,
and the disabled were persecuted
 Regarded as inferior and as social
parasites
 Threats to the ‘purity’ of the Aryan race

13.  Eugenics and Euthanasia
 Promoting ‘Racial hygiene’: The strong and
racially pure were encouraged to have more
children but the weak and racially impure had
to be neutralised

14.  Eugenics and
Euthanasia
 Laws instituted
against these groups
– to control,
authorise arrests and
even sterilise them
 Many also sent to
concentration camps
and eventually
gassed in large
chambers

15.  Under Weimar Government:
 Right to vote
 Equality in marriage and civil matters – held political
positions and roles in civil service

16.  What can you infer from the photo about the role of
women in Nazi Germany?

17.  Under Nazis
 Confined to being mother and
spouse
 Belief that women served nation
best by being good wives and
mothers
 Excluded from politics and
academics – after 1933, women
ceased to hold seats at Reichstag

18.  Under Nazis
 Nazis made girls undergo vigorous training in domestic
tasks – farming and sports
 Indoctrination attempts to organise women’s affairs
according to the Party line

19.  Results?
 Policies were oppressive
 The importance of women to building a strong nation
was acknowledged and women saw Nazi policies as a
means of establishing an identity for themselves

20.  Aims
 To ensure that the German
youth would grow up to be
loyal to the Nazi regime and
to be willing to fight for it
 To serve as a youth
counterpart to the SA
 To groom youths (14-18) to be
future leaders in Nazi
organisations (e.g. SS and the
army)

21.  Methods
 Indoctrination in Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism
 Physical and military training emphasised instead of
academics
 Subdivision for boys aged 10-14 created

22.  Results?
 Loyalty of German youth to the Nazis
 Manpower for the German military when
WW2 broke out