NAZI INDOCTRINATION

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NAZI INDOCTRINATION

• Provided new textbooks and gave teachers
  instructions on what should be taught
• Racial theory
• Teutonic prehistory
• Pictures of Hitler hung in every classroom
• Emphasis on physical education and sports
• Hitler Youth
• Included 50 of boys between 10 and 14
• Similar organization for girlsLeague of German
  Girls

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HITLERS LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE

• Defined as doctrine of conflict
• Tolerated open, aggressive competition between
  his subordinates and between branches of
  government
• Provided little supervision to government
  agencies
• Valued personal loyalty more than efficiency
• Kept precise functions of some of his important
  officials undefined

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REPERCUSSIONS

• Army and air force squabbled over resources
• SS and police quarreled over jurisdiction
• Four-Year Plan
• Launched in 1936 by Hermann Goring
• Supposed to provide blueprint and timetable for
  development of steel, iron, synthetic fuel and
  rubber industries
• Goring instead used plan to increase his own
  powerbase
• Other branches of government tried to block plan
  at every step
• Plan failed because of infighting and personal
  power-grabbing

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MEANS EMPLOYED TO ATTAIN POPULAR SUPPORT

• Rearmament
• Massive public works projects
• Increase in consumer products
• Cut-rate vacations
• Strength through Joy

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DOWNSIDE

• Industry became increasingly dependent on
  imported raw materials
• Development of department stores undercut small
  shopkeepers
• Number of small farmers declined
• Despite Nazi glorification of rural virtues
• Blood and Soil

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WOMEN

• Nazis believed that a womans place was in the
  home or delivery room
• Forced women to give up industrial jobs and also
  public service and teaching jobs
• Certain occupations classified as womens work
• Farmwork
• Traditional textile manufacturing
• Campaign to exclude women from industrial
  workforce failed because of need for industrial
  workers during the war

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INTELLECTUALS

• Philosopher Martin Heidegger praised Hitler and
  was used as an example of how German scholars
  supported the Third Reich
• Exception, not the rule
• Most great German scholars preferred to flee the
  country
• Nazis burned books they did not approve of

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ART

• Nazis hated decadent art (anything modernistic)
• Walter Gropius
• Founded Bauhaus in 1919
• Stressed simplicity and beauty function through
  form
• Goal was to reconcile art and industry
• Hitler closed Bauhaus in 1934, claiming it was a
  symbol of cultural Bolshevism

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EXHIBITION OF DENGENERATE ART (1937)
BAD ART
GOOD ART
GOOD ART
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CULTURAL BIGOTRY

• Hated Jewish composers
• Gustave Mahler
• Arnold Schonberg
• Censored the theater
• Hitler preferred light plays and stupid rural
  comedies
• Disliked anything that represented a loosening of
  sexual morality
• Homosexuality
• Jazz
• Modern dances
• Joseph Goebbels
• Allowed movie producers and newspaper editors to
  censor themselves

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NAZI FILM

• Subsidized violently anti-semitic films
• The Swiss Jew (1940)
• Commissioned propaganda films
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Triumph of the Will (1934)