Review Homework – the four year plan (up to 1939)

What did you find out about the following?

• Guns or Butter debate• What was the Four Year Plan? • How successful was it?

Summarise each point in no more than 5 words on your MWB

Nazi Organisations and the co-ordination of

German society

Key questions to ask as we look at the various organisations:

•What did they hope to achieve?

•How did they try implement this?

•How successful were they?

What were Hitler’s plans for German society?

• Volksgemeinschaft (people’s community) – inspired by the spirit of 1914 – unity of Germans at the beginning of the Great War

• Aim was however cruder than just this – to create a united classless racial community of ‘Aryan’ Germans from which all Jews, aliens, deviants and mentally ill would be excluded

• Used to forge a new pure Germany and produce strong Germans that would fight for the Fuhrer and the Fatherland

• Ambitious? How successful was he?

YOUTH

• 1) Why was the youth central to Hitler’s ‘volksgemeinshaft’?

• Make clear links with the definition in your notes

• 2) What tactics could Hitler use to introduce Nazi values to the youth of Germany?

‘A people’s community. Nazism stressed the development of a harmonious, socially unified and

racially pure community. It did not support Marxism and communism.’

Hitler - 1933

• When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side’, I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already…What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’What can we learn about Hitler from this quote?

Education system

• 1) What did the Nazis do to the existing education system?

i). Schools (Layton p.61-62)ii). Universities (see handout)

• 2)What new schools did the Nazis introduce? (Layton p.61-62)

• 3) Why were the Nazis able to co-ordinate universities with such ease? (see handout)

Remember – include facts and figures you can use as evidence

Homework: educationLook at sources 14.15 – 14.28 on your handout

Highlight examples of the Nazis implementing their education aims:

• Anti-intellectual• Anti-Semitism• Indifference to the Weak• Nationalism• Militarism• Obedience and Discipline• Hitler worship

Include a key/annotations so that you know what each piece of evidence tells you

Think

• What is the purpose of education if the state ethos is anti-academic?

Youth movements

• What was the Hitler Youth? Which groups made it up? Aims? Membership figures? (Layton p.62-63 and handout)

• What were its successes? (Layton p.64-65 and handout)

• What were its failures? (Layton p.64-65 and handout)Split into groups of 3 – take a question each, find the answers then feed

them back to your group

Youth movements• Hitler Youth created in 1926 and expanded

rapidly after 1933 (when all other youth organisations were taken over by the Hitler Youth).

• It was independent of the Reich Ministry of Education

• For males – 10-14 German Young People and 14-18 Hitler Youth

• For females – 10-14 Young Girls League and 14-18 German Girls League

• The organisation aimed to engage boys in sports and war games while girls were taught domestic skills in preparation for motherhood. There was also a heavy emphasis on Nazi ideology and teachings

Youth movements

• 1936 all other youth organisations banned and membership compulsory in 1939

• As membership grew – (6 million plus after 1936) the organisation became less successful

• There were less committed members and more stress put on military preparation rather than sporting activity

• During war many committed youth leaders were also used to fight

Sources• Read sources 14.8 – 14.14 Table 1 - Aims of the Hitler

Youth, methods, reasons why youngsters joined, reactions of young Germans

• Read sources 14.34 – 14.39• Table 2 – was policy

successful?

• Think:• Why might we need to be

careful when using these sources?

• How successful was the Hitler Youth?

Opposition

• How does this flower represent youth opposition in Nazi Germany?

• Edelweiss – a white alpine flower that served as a symbol of opposition

Opposition

• Swing Movement and Edelweiss pirates

1) Is this evidence of real political opposition or natural youth behaviour?

• When do this topic, they have revision sheet p.24/5 from AQA rev guide – do the activities as a h/w