Germany - Nazi domestic policies 1933-39

By Daisy Willans

  • Female teachers = 100,000

  • The German Labour Front (DAF) set up

    Set up in place of trade unions which were banned in 1933. It set out new employment rights of all workers and regulated working hours.

  • The National Labour Service (RAD) introduced

    It was a manual scheme providing voluntary work for the unemployed.

  • Spending on arms = 3.5 billion marks

  • German army = 100,000

  • Unemployment = 4.8 million

  • The Beauty of Labour (SdA) set up

    This organisation tried to ensure good standards at work of: safety, cleanliness, lighting, noise levels, ventilation and hot meals.

  • The Kraft durch Freude (KdF) set up

    Strength through Joy provided leisure activities for workers including sports facilities, films, outings and theatre shows. The most loyal workers could win holidays. KdF was the world's largest tour operator in the 1930s.

  • Boycotts of Jewish businesses

  • Jews banned from government jobs

  • The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage

    Loans of 1000 marks (about 9 months wages) were provided for young couples to marry.

  • Jews banned from inheriting land

  • Jews banned from the army

  • Jews banned from restaurants

  • The RAD became compulsory

    All young men had to serve 6 months in the RAD. Those in the RAD were used to: work in fields, build public buildings and to build autobahns.

  • The Nuremberg Laws passed

    Jews lost the right to vote, hold government office or have German passports. The Reich Law of the Protection of German Blood and Honour forbade Jews from marrying German citizens.

  • Lebensborn introduced

    The fountain of life programme introduced by the SS leader Heinrich Himmler.

  • Hitler began his 'Four Year Plan'

    The secret plan declared that the German economy should be reorganised to be war ready within four years.

  • German army = 500,000

  • Unemployment = 1.6 million

  • Jews had to register all possessions

  • Jews had to carry an identity card

  • Jewish doctors, dentists and lawyers forbidden to work for Ayrans

  • Hershel Grynszpan shot Ernst von Rath

    Grynszpan was a Polish Jew who was angry with the Germans due to the way they treated his parents.

  • Ernst von Rath died

    This led to gangs smashing up Jewish property and attacking Jews as Hitler ordered that the government should not stop people taking revenge.

  • Kristallnacht

    814 shops, 171 homes and 191 synagogues destroyed. 100 Jews died.

  • 20,000 Jews in concentration camps

    Jews rounded up as punishment for Kristallnacht. They were also fined 1 billion marks, banned from running businesses and from attending schools or universities.

  • Edelweiss Pirates = 2000 members

  • Unemployment = 0.5 million

  • Germany had 7000 miles of autobahn

  • Spending on arms = 26 billion marks

  • German army = 900,000

  • The Reich Office for Jewish Emigration set up

    Heydrich (head of the Gestapo) became its director who was given the task of ridding Germany of Jews by emigration.

  • Jews could be evicted from rented homes

    After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, many Jews were deported to Polish ghettos.

  • The first Mother's Cross awarded

    Bronze = 4-5
    Silver = 6-7
    Gold = 8-9