Exercise 1

Youth organisations were made responsible for educating German youth in the spirit of National Socialism. Ten year olds had to join _____ and at $14$, all boys had to join ______where they learned to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy, and hate Jews, communist and Gypsies.

What do you think this poster is trying to depict?

GERMAN FARMER, YOU BELONG TO HITLER! WHY? The German farmer stands in between two great dangers today: The one danger of American economic system — Big Capitalism! The other is the Marxist economic system of Bolshevism. Big Capitalism and Bolshevism work hand in hand: they are born of Jewish thought and serve the master plan of world Jewry. Who alone can rescue the farmer from these dangers?

NATIONAL SOCIALISM. From: a Nazi leaflet, $1932$.

Look at the text from a Nazi poster and the poster above and answer the following: What do they tell us about Nazi propaganda? How are the Nazis trying to mobilise different sections of the population?

In what ways did the Nazi state seek to establish total control over its people?

What did the Nuremberg Laws mean to the ‘undesirables’ in Nazi Germany? What other legal measures were taken against them to make them feel unwanted?

What were the reactions of a Jewish woman and a non-Jewish woman be towards Hilter’s ideas?

Match the items of column A showing the time period with the corresponding items of column B showing the treatment of Jews at the hands of Nazis and select the correct choice :

Column A                                                     Column B

$1.$ $1933 - 1939$                                    i. Ghettoisation : you have no right to live among us.

$2.$ $1940 - 1944$                                    ii. Exclusion : You have no right to live among us as citizen.

$3.$ $1941$ onwards                                     iii. Discrimination : You may exists on your own.

                                                                   iv. Annihilation : You have no right to live.

What does citizenship mean to you? Write $200$ words on how the French Revolution and Nazism defined citizenship.