yr11_nazis

=Social Life in Nazi Germany: Year 11 Research projects=

Introduction
Hitler believed in **Social Darwinism** – the idea that society operated on the principle of "Survival of the Fittest". For Hitler, the European "**Master Race**" was blonde haired, blue-eyed and white-skinned – the **Aryan** race. Hitler's plan to ensure the world triumph of this "Master Race" came in three parts, listed below.

▪ Each of you has been given a different research topic. ▪ Organise your Wiki page under five headings: 1. What did the Nazis do? 2. Why did they do this? 3. Evidence of Success? 4. Evidence of Failure 5. Top Three Websites for further research
 * Task 1: A Wiki Page of 500-750 words with at least one picture source.**

▪ When the pages are finished, each one of you will be reallocated one of the pages to read (not your own). ▪ Repeat Task 1, but this time your objective is to: 1. Improve and clarify the page by making amendments - adding information and pictures, editing out unnecessary detail and so on (the teacher can use the "history" tab to see what you changed!) 2. Adding a sixth section: "Questions and Tasks". This is designed to turn each page into a self-contained activity that other members of the class can learn from.
 * Task 2: Developing someone else's page**

▪ Finally, go to one of the pages you have not yet worked on, and complete the tasks ready to hand in to the teacher.
 * Task 3: Using the pages**

**1. Support strong Aryans! ("Ubermenschen" = Master Race)**
Hitler felt that all //healthy// Germans belonged to one "people's community" (**Volksgemeinschaft**) which needed to unite behind Nazi ideology (**Weltanschauung** = World View) if it was to triumph.

**a.** Men (George)

 * Concepts**: DAF | Strength Through Joy | Beauty of Labour Movement | Volkswagen
 * People**: Dr. Robert Ley

b. Women (Seb)

 * Concepts**: Lebensborn Programme, Honour Cross of the German Mother
 * People**: Gertrud Scholz-Klink

**c.** Children (1) School Curriculum (Ariane)

 * Concepts**: Nazi School Curriculum
 * People**: Bernhard Rust

d. Children (2) Youth Organisations (Beth)

 * Concepts**: Hitler Youth, League of German Maidens
 * People**: Baldur von Schirach

e. Social Groups - Tramps, Homosexuals and the Disabled (Sam)

 * Concepts**: Imprisonment | Castration | Sterilisation | Euthanasia | T4 Programme | Spiegelgrund Children's Hospital
 * People**: Joseph Meisinger | Heinrich Gross

f. Religious Groups - Christians: Protestants and Catholics (Patu)

 * Concepts**: Reich Church | German Faith Movement | Concordat Confessional Church
 * People**: Bishop Muller | Cardinal Galen | Martin Niemoller

**g.** Jews (Tina)

 * Concepts:** Anti-Semitism | Nuremberg Laws | Kristallnacht | Madagascar Plan | Wannsee Conference | Final Solution | Zyklon B | Dachau and Auschwitz
 * People**: Reynhard Heydrich | Adolf Eichmann