Nazi Party’s Social Policies

1. Nazi Party’s Social Policies Ms. Humes 8th Period – Contemporary American History

2. What were the Nazi Party’s social policies? • In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of German citizenship and placed severe restrictions on their freedoms. • Nazis prohibited Jews from marrying non-Jews. • Jews could not attend or teach at German schools or universities. • Jews could not hold government jobs • Jews could not practice law or medicine. • Jews could notpublish books. • As a result, German Jews fled Germany, seeking refuge in other countries.

3. What were the Nazi Party’s social policies? • Nazis aimed to purify the German culture. • Nazis denounced modern art as being corrupted by the Jews. • Bauhaus Art Movement (pre-Nazi) • Cities: Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin • Famous Artists: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee • Architecture & Art • Nazis condemned jazz because of its African heritage. • Nazis glorified old German myths, such as those created in operas of Richard Wagner.

4. What were the Nazi Party’s social policies? • Nazis social policies towards religion: • Hitler despised Christianity as “weak” and “flabby.” He wanted to replace religion with his racial creed. • Nazis combined all Protestant sects into a single state church. • Nazis closed Catholic schools and quieted (muzzled) the Catholic clergy, but some clergy did speak out against Hitler.

5. What were the Nazi Party’s social policies? • November 7, 1938 • A young, Jewish man, whose parents had been mistreated in Germany, shot and wounded a German diplomat in Paris. Hitler used this incident as an excuse to stage an attack on the Jews. • November 9 & 10, 1938 • Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass” • Nazi led mobs attacked Jewish communities in Germany, Austria, and annexed portions of Czechoslovakia. • Leaders within Hitler’s regime were making plans for a “Final Solution” or extermination of all Jews.