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)