Analyse the successes and failures of the domestic policies of one authoritarian
leader. [15]
In 1933, Hitler came into power after the failures of the Weimar government bearing the
burden to solve the past problems from the past era. Hitler began issuing domestic policies in
various areas: economic, youth, women, minorities, which were successful in varying degrees.
His economic policies increased worker’s productivity to face on the great war. Youth policies
were immensely successful in altering school curriculum and rise in youth movements to
indoctrinate future workforce and integrate them into the Party. Women were restricted of
their freedom and shifted to more conservative family ideas, being in the kitchen and giving
birth, of the Nazi ideology along with persecution of minorities to enhance Germany’s race
purity.
Nazi domestic policies were successful towards youth to some extent, through changes in
educational policies and youth movements to successfully indoctrinate the future workforce.
The changes to the school curriculum in history glorified the German struggle to highlight their
achievements prompted students to feel responsible to be more politically active, while biology
implemented ideas of race purity and aryan supremacy. The elimination of teachers who have
opposite agendas to the party and subsequent forced integration into the National Socialist
Teachers league (NSLB) only serves to further the conformity to the heavily indoctrinated
educational curriculum. Furthermore, this portrayed Nazis as a caring government and
encouraged students to participate in youth movements, providing the Nazi party with more
future members to strengthen the Party. By 1933, this number had risen to 55 000 members.
Not only that, these youth movements further solidified the gendered deals of the Nazis with
National Socialism Hitler Youth for boys; League of German Maidens for girls to prepare them
for their future role fathers and mothers. However, this is not to say Hitler’s regiment of
indoctrination was effective to all students; there was also opposition from other groups like
the Edelweiss Pirates, the White Rose, who emerged out of the tight control of the Nazi Party
over youth movements, but their impacts remained minimal as they were quickly arrested and
executed like other oppositions. Historian Ian Kershaw supports this argued that while there
were many who condemned Hitler’s actions - it’s the use of force that intimidated the mass to
not follow resistance. Overall, the youth policies were relatively successful in providing a heavy
diet of indoctrination to shape future workforce but it’s their violent tactics that deterred most
resistance.
Hitler’s domestic policies towards the workforce was relatively successful to boost employment
after the Great Depression. Public Works projects to build schools, hospitals and railways
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