To What Extent Did the Nazis Achieve the Aims of Their Social Policies?
From 1933 to 1939 Hitler aimed to achieve a "social revolution" in Germany. He aimed to achieve such social policies within the Youth and Women but particularly through his concept of volksgemeinschaft, meaning 'people's community,' he hoped to transform Germany into a strong country based on traditional peasant values." David Schoenbaum has argued that Hitler's "social revolution" was a fake, and perceived as being real, due to the influence of Hitler's propaganda. Hitler effectively aimed to unify the people into a united classless racial community and introduce a degree of loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi Party. In addition to this, Hitler, through domestic social policy and propaganda, aimed to change the role of women in society such that their purpose was to lift the declining birth rate in an attempt to create the Aryan ‘master race’ and to effectively be a house wife. Finally, the Nazis took advantage of the need for German youth groups and used what teenagers wanted to slip in Nazi ideals, took over the education system to portray Nazi views, and used the school system to glorify war; they also often alienated children from their parents.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they attempted to implement a brutal and coercive system. Part of implementing this system was creating a Volksgemeinschaft, a racial or people's community. Hitler attempted to institute the Volksgemeinschaft so that he would have less resistance as an absolute ruler, and he enforced it mainly through the actual and perceived presence of the Geheime Staatspolizei, or the Gestapo. The implementation of the Volksgemeinschaft was largely effective, though there were some unexpected and unwanted consequences as a result of Nazi methods. The people's community of Nazi Germany was an attempt to unify the German people, or what was seen as the German people, and excluding, or to even greater measures expunging, non-Germans. The largest group that was alienated and purged from the
When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they attempted to implement a brutal and coercive system. Part of implementing this system was creating a Volksgemeinschaft, a racial or people's community. Hitler attempted to institute the Volksgemeinschaft so that he would have less resistance as an absolute ruler, and he enforced it mainly through the actual and perceived presence of the Geheime Staatspolizei, or the Gestapo. The implementation of the Volksgemeinschaft was largely effective, though there were some unexpected and unwanted consequences as a result of Nazi methods. The people's community of Nazi Germany was an attempt to unify the German people, or what was seen as the German people, and excluding, or to even greater measures expunging, non-Germans. The largest group that was alienated and purged from the