Thursday, April 7, 2011

Nazi Economic Recovery and Rearmament

1. How did the Nazi Regime attempt to win the loyalty of its workers? Define the following:
a. Strength Through Joy program:through labour, workers were offered cinema tickets, and trips.

b. Volkswagen Beetle (the people's car): Money was taken out of the pay check every week for workers, being told that it was being saved for a volkswagen beetle for them. however, the workers never recieved such.

c. Beauty of Labor movement: improved working conditions in factory, providing washrooms and canteens for workers.

2. Define the following Farming Programs. Be sure to provide the pros and cons of each program:

a. Reich Food Estate: Garunteed Set prices and market for farmes while helping to distribute their food accross Germany.

b. Reich Entailed Farm Law: farmer's protection of their farms,not the bank, nor the state could take their farms.

3. Define Volksgemeinschaft. (Hint: It is in the reading, plus my notes)
The idea that all germans would live without social classes. For the nazis, they had wanted to make Germans be above all other countries, and all existing in prosperity without inconsistancy.

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