Nazi Folk Community and Social Dynamics in Germany
Folk community
January 18, Week 12
Folk community
“I have been expelled from the folk
community”
The Nazi folk community
•
More a notion than a reality
•
Idea of an equal community of racial comrades
•
Everyone’s participation
•
Participatory violence
•
Equality defined racially and socially
•
Strong gender components; state interfering with family
and private sphere
•
Based on exclusion of those who did not fit in racially and
biologically (“non-Aryans,” “asocials,” homosexuals, those
sexually “deviant,” criminals, hereditary ill)
•
Eugenics and later annihilation
Women, gender, and sexuality
BDF, League of German women,
headed by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
(here waiting for Hitler)
Nazis’s liberalization of sexuality
Dagmar Herzog,
Sex after Fascism
Youth for the Führer
‘Co-ordination’ of education system
‘Politically unreliable’ teachers
sacked.
Curriculum brought into line with
Nazi ideology.
Youth Organizations:
Deutsches Jungvolk
(German Young
People, DJ) – Boys aged 10-14.
Hitler Jugend
(Hitler Youth) – Boys
aged 14-18.
Jungm
ädelbund
(League of Young
Girls) – Girls aged 10-14.
Bund Deutscher Mädel
(League of
German Girls, BDM) – Girls aged 14-
18.
Highways and people’s car
KdF holidays: Prora on the Rügen island
Boycott of Jewish stores, Aryanization, and Action 3
SS in front of the
Wertheim
departmental
store
Foreign relations
•
At first calming other countries, pact with Poland
•
Failed coup in Austria in 1934, turning the country into right wing
autocracy
•
annexation of Saarland (1935), Rhineland (1936)
The Czech journalist Stanislav Budín remembered Saarland plebiscite:
“In the evening of the day of the plebiscite we were in the editorial office [of
Rudé Právo
] we even shifted the time of the deadline, and, very tense, were
expecting the results. The results came in. A crushing, I believe 90%, majority
spoke out for unification with Germany! That evening we decided to call the
office of a Communist newspaper in Saarbrücken. I was the one in the office
who spoke the best German, and so it was me on the phone. When we were
finally connected, on the phone was the crying voice of the woman comrade
there, who told me that they are leaving the editorial office and the party
headquarters, because before the building is the raving canaille they had all
their windows smashed and in no time those people will storm the building.
The last islet of democracy on German soil was gone.”
Foreign relations cont.
•
Rapprochement with Italy: conflict in Ethiopia and Spain
•
Berlin-Rome Axis, 1936: closing ranks with Mussolini
•
Hossbach memorandum, Nov 1937
•
Japan becomes ally in 1937
•
Austria annexed in March 1938
•
Appeasement: Czechoslovakia broken up Sep 38, occupied
March 39
•
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, August 39
•
Attack on Poland and beginning of WWII, Sep 1, 1939
•
Operation Barbarossa: attack on the Soviet Union, June
1941
In this detailed exploration, you will delve into the intricate social structures of the Nazi folk community in Germany. From the expulsion of individuals to the liberalization of sexuality, the role of women, youth organizations, education system coordination, and foreign relations, you will learn about the complex dynamics that shaped this period in history.
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Folk community January 18, Week 12
Folk community I have been expelled from the folk community
The Nazi folk community More a notion than a reality Idea of an equal community of racial comrades Everyone s participation Participatory violence Equality defined racially and socially Strong gender components; state interfering with family and private sphere Based on exclusion of those who did not fit in racially and biologically ( non-Aryans, asocials, homosexuals, those sexually deviant, criminals, hereditary ill) Eugenics and later annihilation
Women, gender, and sexuality BDF, League of German women, headed by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (here waiting for Hitler)
Naziss liberalization of sexuality Dagmar Herzog, Sex after Fascism
Youth for the Fhrer Co-ordination of education system Politically unreliable teachers sacked. Curriculum brought into line with Nazi ideology. Youth Organizations: Deutsches Jungvolk (German Young People, DJ) Boys aged 10-14. Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) Boys aged 14-18. Jungm delbund (League of Young Girls) Girls aged 10-14. Bund Deutscher M del (League of German Girls, BDM) Girls aged 14- 18.
Boycott of Jewish stores, Aryanization, and Action 3 SS in front of the Wertheim departmental store
Foreign relations At first calming other countries, pact with Poland Failed coup in Austria in 1934, turning the country into right wing autocracy annexation of Saarland (1935), Rhineland (1936) The Czech journalist Stanislav Bud n remembered Saarland plebiscite: In the evening of the day of the plebiscite we were in the editorial office [of Rud Pr vo] we even shifted the time of the deadline, and, very tense, were expecting the results. The results came in. A crushing, I believe 90%, majority spoke out for unification with Germany! That evening we decided to call the office of a Communist newspaper in Saarbr cken. I was the one in the office who spoke the best German, and so it was me on the phone. When we were finally connected, on the phone was the crying voice of the woman comrade there, who told me that they are leaving the editorial office and the party headquarters, because before the building is the raving canaille they had all their windows smashed and in no time those people will storm the building. The last islet of democracy on German soil was gone.
Foreign relations cont. Rapprochement with Italy: conflict in Ethiopia and Spain Berlin-Rome Axis, 1936: closing ranks with Mussolini Hossbach memorandum, Nov 1937 Japan becomes ally in 1937 Austria annexed in March 1938 Appeasement: Czechoslovakia broken up Sep 38, occupied March 39 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, August 39 Attack on Poland and beginning of WWII, Sep 1, 1939 Operation Barbarossa: attack on the Soviet Union, June 1941
