Week 4: The Promises and Realities of National Socialism
Image: Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank
Graph:
Official Unemployment Statistics for Germany, 1928-1938
Graph: Gross National
Product, National Income, and Industrial Production in Germany, 1928-1938
Graph: Wages, Earnings,
and Cost of Living in Germany, 1929-1938
Bibliography
I. The Economic Recovery
A. The Great Justification
B. Nazi Economics
C. What Was the Nature of the Recovery?
D. Was There a Crisis of Labor Relations after 1936?
Excursus: National Socialist Welfare
Poster: Die NSDAP sichert die Volksgemeinschaft (ca. 1933)
Image: Robert Ley (1890-1945), Head of the Reich Labor Front
Poster: “Your Vacation 1939”
Image: Tickets to a Kraft durch Freude Concert (1942)
Image: Kraft durch Freude Ocean Resort at Prora (Rügen)
Image: Advertising for the KdF-Wagen
Image: Advertising for the KdF Wagen
Image: Roll-Out of the first KdF-Wagen (1938)
II. National Socialism and Youth
A. The Hitler Youth--Structure and Organization
B. Repression and Emancipation
C. Contradictions of Totalism
D. Youth, Swing, and Dissent
Image: Baldur von Schirach (1907-1974), in conversation with Hitler, Martin Bormann, and Hermann Göring (1936)
Text: The Hitler Youth Law,
1 December 1936
Graph: Membership in NSDAP Youth
Organizations, 1932-1939
Poster: “Youth Serves the Führer”
Poster: “All Ten-Year-Olds Come to Us” (Bund Deutscher Mädel)
Image: Cuffband of the HJ-Streifendienst
Image: “Edeweiss-Pirates” on an outing in Königswinter (1942)
Image: “Edelweiss-Pirates” in Longerich (1942)
Poster: Entartete Musik (“Degenerate Music”) (1938)
Poster: “Swing Dancing Forbidden”
Image: “Swing Youth” in Hamburg
Image right, top: This Strength-Through-Joy poster proclaims that by saving only 5 Marks each week, “you will drive in your own automobile!” The fine print reads: “KdF-Mobile: For information on purchase price and method of payment, see the service representatives and local offices of the NS-Association 'Strength Through Joy,' District Munich-Upper Bavaria.”
Image right, bottom: A poster for the Winter
Relief Fund (Winterhilfswerk or WHW), with the slogan “A People
Helps Itself!” (1933). Established in September 1933, the WHW collected
donations for the homeless and unemployed. Source: Deutsches
Historisches Museum.
