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LECTURE  6:

Society in the Third Reich

• Ernst Fraenkel          The Dual State  (1941)
  
  

• “normative state” [normenstaat]  vs. “prerogative state” [massnahmenstaat]
  
  

• Leni Riefenstahl  (1902-2003)  Triumph of the Will and Olympia
  [Riefenstahl's personal website]
  
  

• Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF)  German Labour Front
  
  

• Reichsarbietsdienst (RAD)  Reichs Labour Service
  
  

• NS Volkswohlfahrt  (NSV)  National Socialist People's Welfare Society
  
  

• Deutsche Jungvolk (DJ) German Young Folk – pimpf (cub) Boys ages: 10-14
  
  

• Hitlerjugend (HJ) Hitler Youth – boys ages: 15-18
  
  

• Jugendmädelbund (JM) League of Young Girls  – Ages:  10-14
  
  

• Bund Deutscher Mädel  (BDM) – League of German Girls – 15-18
  
  

• Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter (Mutter Kreuz) -- Mother's Cross
  
  

• Lebensborn  ("Fount of Life" SS natal institution) 

 

 

READINGS:

Klaus P. Fischer,  Chapter 10

 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

David F. Crew (ed)  Nazism and German Society

George L. Moses, Nazi Culture

Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History

Hans Peter Bleuel, Sex and Society in Nazi Germany (UK edition title: Strength Through Joy)

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