Life Under Nazi Germany

Introduction

Nazi rule was the rule of totalitarian state in the Germany during the early twentieth to mid twenteinth century. Life under Nazi Germany was fully controlled by the Governement and each aspect of life was controlled by government. The people of one race treated preferentially and left were ruthlessly persecuted. Nazi society was the male dominant society having racist doctrine at the top level in decision making. Nazis beleived that the important profession such as politics, military, lawyer etc are for man and the domestic work for women that is why the women couldnt get the any powerful position under nazi rule. Ideology of Nazi was synonymous to the Hitlers worldview. Nazis wanted to make the society based on racial descrimination, where blue eyed, blond hair, Nordic German Aryans were occupied the top position and jews were at the lowest strata and all other races were placed in between on the basis of their external features. Nazis believed in the principle of charles darwin that survival the fittest, hence the nazis argued  that strongest would survive and weak will be eliminated from survival. And they believed that the Aryan race was the fittest and finest to survive and dominate the world.  They also believed that geopolitical extension must go on to settle the new generation to expand in this world. 

Life Under Nazi Germany

Under the rule of Nazi Germany the democratic rule was dismanteled  and basic freedoms were suspended. The famous Enabling Act Germany was passed on 3 March 1933 to establish the dictatorship. This gave enormous power to Hitler to sideline the parliament and start the rule by decree. Unions and institutions such as political parties, Trade unions in the country were banned except Nazi party and state aquire the whole sole power on the economy, army, judiciary and on the economy of country. Now the Nazi has complete power over the society to be governed by his own rules not by the constitution of Germany. The rise of many extra constitutional bodies and organised forces in Nazi state lead the Germany a most dreadfull criminal country. People with colored raced  and Jewish beleif (other than Aryan race) were arrested for no reason, tortured, murdered and deported at will. Police force has all the power. Hitler also designated the committee for the economic recovery and employment generation for the Aryan race people. 

Nazi

As the rule of Hitler began, the people were impressed with his speeches, and promised to make a strong nation and to restore the dignity of people. Nazis paromised for the employment and spend  money on economic revival programmes. They also promised to wipe out foreign impressions on youth and were successful in resisting the foreign conspiracies against their nation. Hitler : important men of Nazi rule, devised the new form of a politics, he held massive ralies, mass mobilization and gave importance of rituals. Some scholars also believed that Nazis rule was anti-intllectual and focussed on the simple and traditional german culture. The rule was highly bureaucratic as the police and officers have wide range of power to implement the ruling of Nazis. Their banner has Swastika on Red color banner with Nazi salute. Nazi people skilllfully projected the Hitler as their great leader and messiah, a saviour who had arrived to liberate people from distress. 

Life under the Nazi Germany was very difficult for the Jews people where they classified as ‘undesirable’, many Gypies and blacks colored race from Germany were considered as ‘inferiors’ to the Ayran race. These people were widely persecuted. During the Nazis rule even Russians and Polish were considered subhuman to Aryans. People from occupied country were treated as slaves to the Nazis. Jewish people are considered to be the killers of Christ and usurers. They were often  persecuted under Nazis rule in Germany through organised violence. Poland gas killing was one example of mass killing of Nazis. Apart from losing the freedom, people of Nazis also have light side of life such as many ordinary or common people deployed to jobs and had wage based work. Economic policy of Nazis have various effects on the society. Such as the rise of monopolies in the economy, small businesses were hard to open as the rules were tightened. Farmers no longer sell their land as they have pressure to produce more farm produce to supply the food range to the wider range of population. Youth were trained  hard to utilize their skills in a productive profession. 

Paper toys

During the rule of Nazis in Germany, the German toy manufacturing companies voluntarily produced the Nazi theme based toys to capitalize the success of this new Nazi regime. Ordinary people  found the interesting types of games in the toys based on the Nazi Germany.  One of the famous type of toys were popular among people was paper toys of Nazis. These toys were of military dressed soldiers, Hitlers, Guns attracted children and they grew up believing that military man, war, heroism were normal part of everyday life. This was strategically done by Nazis to prepare soldier for the future generation and have complete influence on new generation to protect the Nazis policies at any cost. None of the child in Nazi Germany was safe from the encountering to the toy propaganda of Nazis at school, playground, home or at shows.  

Many people such as Beiderbeck criticize this type of propaganda to steal the innocence of the new generation to make belief in militaristic and inhumane values that are very harmful for a peaceful society. 

Nazi Cult of Motherhood

Life under Nazi Germany clearly stated that the male were dominant the society and organizations. As the general racist doctrine governed by Nazi ideology have superimposed male over the female. No equality between men and women, Hitler believes that democracy strengthens equality and it will destroy society. He believed that both men and women have different types of responsibility in society to nurture civilization. The boys of Nazism were deemed to be aggressive, more musculine and hard steel hearted to protect the society and girls were taught to be good mothers to rear the pure blood aryan race. Girls were bound to marry aryan race and prohibited to marry jewish boys, they had to take care of family at home and up-bring the child with nazis ideology. Womens having children desired race were awarded by nazis, preferential treatment were given to these at every aspect of day to day life while the womens having children of other races treated differently and punished harshly.  Nazis promote the womens to give birth to many child and awarded holy cross to them. There were olympic-like situations for the count of birth a woman gives such as bronze, silver and gold medal for the mother who gave birth to four, six and eight children respectively. People in society who contacted with Jewish, Russian people were tortured openly, blackned their head and shaved their head to punish them and even people of their family lost civic honour and sentenced. 

Conclusion

Life under Nazi Germany was difficult for the one race (Aryan race) but very difficult for other races. Democracy was murdered by Nazis, dictactorship was prevailed. Supremacy of one race over another established. Even the Superiority of one gender over another was very common. There were not freedom of speech, profession, travelling, expression under the Nazis rule. Ordinary people were influenced completely by the government policies who made noise against them and were persecuted mercilessly. Mass killing of inferior races was very common, deporting of people also common, intellectual people were dishonoured and ordered to stay away from the general administration. Meanwhile under the Nazis rule economy was revived, more people got their wages and employment, More food was produced to kill hunger. Expension of geopolitical territory was one of the main policy of Nazis. This type of undemocratic rule was unsustainable, hence ended with world war.