The Third Reich
The Third Reich is the name of the Nazi regime in Germany from January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945. The Nazi rise to power was the start of the beginning of the Third Reich. The appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in January 30, 1933, the Nazi party got power. They took all the rights from the Jews and any hatred to the Nazis as culture, the economy, education and all the laws were all under the power of the Nazi’s. The Nazi party became the most popular party in Germany at the time. Propaganda was used to show the regime’s goals and ideas. The Nazis disobeyed the Versailles Treaty, for Germany to gain back its powers to lift itself after the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a time period were the world was in an economic crisis after the Wall Street crash in October 1939. After the German president Paul von HIndenburg died in August 1934, the president role went to Hitler, the Führer alongside his role as Chancellor. Hitler had created the Gestapo, his secret police force and the S.S were his loyal bodyguards. Women was important during the Third Reich as “racially pure” women were encouraged to have more Aryan children, to continue the “racially superior” race. Women had the role to recycle the goods taken from the Holocaust and teach in schools in German occupied areas.
The Hitler Youth
Education during the Third Reich was very different and served the National Socialist view. Nazi scholars and educators worshipped the Nordic and other “Aryan” races while placing down the Jews and other racially Inferior people. 97% of all public school teachers and about 300,00 people joined the National Socialist Teachers League. In schools, the ideas of the Nazi party and loyalty to the Führer. School acted as propaganda in all subjects for the future of Germany. The Hitler Youth started in 1926, the aim of the Hitler Youth was to prepare boys into the SA (storm troopers). After 1933, the youth leaders decided to become a part of the Nazi community and prepare them for the future to be soldiers in the armed forces or in the SS.IN 1936, the were made compulsory between the ages of 10 to 17, where they were taught to be faithful to the Nazi Party and the future leaders of the National Socialist state and the League of German Girls was started to start creating beliefs of the world in the Nazi point of view.
Military Service
After turning 18, boys were conscripted into war where they were to enlist to be in the armed forces of in the Reich Labor Service, activities from the Hitler Youth had trained them for the occupations. After the allied forces had crossed the borders of Germany, the Nazis had conscripted German youths under 16 to defend Germany from a military defeat and seniors over 60 were also sent to the units of the Volkssturm.