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'Gleichschaltung' Laws
'Gleichschaltung' (meaning 'coordination', 'making the same') is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and tight coordination over all aspects of society. The 'First Gleichschaltung Law' of March 31, 1933 dissolved the diets of all Länder except Prussia and ordered them reconstituted on the basis of the votes in the last Reichstag election (with the exception of Communist seats). It also gave the state governments the same powers the Reich government possessed under the Enabling Act. A 'Second Gleichschaltung Law' passed on April 7, 1933 deployed one Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) in each state, apart from Prussia. These officers, responsible to Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, were supposed to act as local proconsuls in each state, with near-complete control over the state governments. For Prussia, which constituted the bulk of Germany in any event, Hitler reserved these rights for himself and delegated them to Prussian minister-president Hermann Göring.
The German Labor Front
The trade union association ADGB ('Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund') was shattered on May 2, 1933 (the day after Labour Day), when SA and NSBO units occupied union facilities and ADGB leaders were imprisoned. Other important associations including trade unions were forced to merge with the German Labor Front ('Deutsche Arbeitsfront'), controlled by the NSDAP, to which all workers had to belong.
Volkswagen' Project Becomes 'Kübelwagen'
Volkswagen was originally founded in 1937 by the Nazi trade union, the German Labour Front. In the early 1930s German auto industry was still largely composed of luxury models, and the average German rarely could afford anything more than a motorcycle. As a result only one German out of 50 owned a car. In 1933, with many of the above projects still in development or early stages of production, Adolf Hitler demanded the production of a basic vehicle capable of transporting two adults and three children at 100 km/h (62 mph). The 'People's Car' would be available to ordinary citizens of the Third Reich through a savings scheme at 990 Reichsmark ('Fünf Mark die Woche musst du sparen, willst du im eigenen Wagen fahren' – 'Five marks a week you must put aside, if you want your own car to ride'), which around 336,000 people eventually paid into. However, the Wolfsburg factory had only produced a handful of cars by the time war started. None was actually delivered to any holder of the completed saving stamp books, though one Type 1 Cabriolet was presented to Hitler on 20 April 1938 (his 49th birthday). War meant production changed to military vehicles, the Type 82 Kübelwagen utility vehicle and the amphibious Schwimmwagen which were used to equip the German forces.
Hitler-Jugend
The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party founded in 1922, one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung (SA). It was made up of the Hitlerjugend proper, for male youth ages 14–18, the younger boys' section 'Deutsches Jungvolk' for ages 10–14, and the girls' section 'Bund Deutscher Mädel' (BDM, the League of German Girls). In April 1932, the Hitler Youth was banned by Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in an attempt to stop widespread political violence. But by June the ban was lifted by his successor, Franz von Papen as a way of appeasing Hitler whose political star was ascending rapidly. A further significant expansion drive started in 1933, when Baldur von Schirach became the first 'Reichsjugendführer' (Reich Youth Leader), pouring much time and large amounts of money into the project. At the end of 1933, the HJ had 2,3M members. Much of these increases came from the more or less forcible merger of other youth organizations with the HJ, such as the Evangelische Jugend, a Lutheran youth organisation of 600k members. By December 1936, HJ membership stood at just over five million. That same month, HJ membership became mandatory for Aryans, under the 'Gesetz über die Hitlerjugend' law. This legal obligation was re-affirmed in 1939 with the 'Jugenddienstpflicht' and HJ membership was required even when it was opposed by the member's parents. During the war, most of Germany's teenagers belonged to the HJ. As casualties escalated at the end of the war, members of the HJ were recruited at ever younger ages. By 1945, the Volkssturm was commonly drafting 12-year-old Hitler Youth members into its ranks. During the Battle of Berlin, Axmann's Hitler Youth formed a major part of the last line of German defense.
Thule Society
The Thule Society, originally the 'Study Group for Germanic Antiquity', was a German occultist and völkisch group in Munich, named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend. The Society is notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), which was later reorganized by Adolf Hitler into the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). According to Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw, the organization's 'membership list...reads like a Who's Who of early Nazi sympathizers and leading figures in Munich', including Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Julius Lehmann, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer. They identified Ultima Thule, said by Nazi mystics to be the capital of ancient Hyperborea, as a lost ancient landmass in the extreme north: near Greenland or Iceland. These ideas derived from earlier speculation by Ignatius L. Donnelly that a lost landmass had once existed in the Atlantic, and that it was the home of the Aryan race, a theory he supported by reference to the distribution of swastika motifs. He identified this with Plato's Atlantis, a theory further developed by Helena Blavatsky, an occultist during the second part of the 19th century.
