Social Cultural Life On The Nazi Sate 1933-1939

The social cultural life on the Nazi Sate 1933-1939 had a significant effect on the youth and women within society. It is due to these factors that Germany began to implement legislations in order to allow Germany to become a powerful country. Toward Hitler and the Nazi Party, young people were incredibly important as they could be easily indoctrinated (brainwashed) and as they could result in the next generation of dedicated Nazis. Women, on the other hand were encouraged to get married and have children. This is because, Hitler needed more women to produce in order to be able to expand his army and gain more soldiers and more girls to be the ‘homemaker’. It is through this ideology that allowed Hitler to gain more support as the youth and

Hitler did not see a reason as to why women should work, and having girls be taught at a young age that their life should be marriage and keeping a decent home for her working husband and too have children. When Hitler came into power in 1933, the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage occurred. This law clearly stated that newly married couples would be given a government loan of 1000 marks which is estimated to be about 9 months of an average income. This resulted in 800,000 newlyweds agreed to this offer as this loan did not have to be paid back completely or not at all depending on the amount of children the women produced. The birth of one child means the 25% of the loan didn’t have to be paid back, two meant 50% and four meant that the entire loan was cleared. The main aim of the law was to encourage women to have as many children as she could suppling the long-term support for Germany as the nation grew. The booming population supplied the boys being groomed into being soldiers and young girls being groomed into being young mothers. Women’s lives were very much controlled within Germany as they were perceived that women should not work in Germany. However, once there was a skill shortage on 1937, a law was passed that meant that the women had to do a “duty year”, meaning that they could participate in factory for example in order to contribute positively toward the ‘economic miracle’. Women’s lives were also controlled in the sense they were not allowed to ear make up or trousers, were not allowed to dye hair and only flat shoes were allowed to be worn. Ultimately, women’s main objective within Germany was to reproduce in order to contribute to the army. Therefore, the social role that women played toward the Nazi Party and Hitler was to contribute children to the country in order to provide for the army and hence make