The everyday life of the Third Reich

• The everyday life of the Third Reich

In spite of everything, life always goes on. The new state regime may conduct policy, which affects many, but unaffected by it citizens continue to live their normal lives.

While the Nazis persecuted the Jews and all others who were considered second-class citizens, many Germans did not notice any changes in their daily routine. They went to school, join the club, got married, worked, shopped ...

That was everyday life against the backdrop of one of the worst periods in the history. Then, when the war broke out, destruction and violence touched everyone - but also against the backdrop of civil war life in the rear did not stop.

These photos show how to look "normal" life in Nazi Germany, which existed from 1933 to 1945.

Students welcome teacher, Berlin, January 1934

The children bought a popsicle from the tray, Berlin, 1934

Volunteers collect Christmas donations for the poor, Berlin, December 1935

Children waving flags, going from Berlin to evacuate, approx. 1940-1945 gg.

The representatives of the Union of German Girls (female counterpart of the Hitler Youth), gymnastics, 1941

German children in the geography lesson in Nazi school in Silesia (Poland), October 1940

The members of the Hitler Youth in gas masks pull the rope, Worms, 1933

The distribution of Adolf Hitler portraits hung up in apartments for persons camp in Lublin (Poland), 1940

The members of the Hitler Youth in the march, location unknown, 1933

Passersby read propaganda stand with the title "The Jews - this is our problem," Worms 1933

The members of the Imperial Service of Labor, where a six-month compulsory call upon all young men on the field work, approx. 1940

Children with Down syndrome in a psychiatric clinic Shonbrunnskoy, 1934 Initially, all children with developmental delays forcibly sterilized, and later all the mentally ill began to destroy physically.

Activists of the Union of German Girls hang posters about their organization, Worms, 1933

The family admiringly looks at the boy in the form of the Hitler Youth, February 1943

A Jewish woman regards goods peddler, Radom (Poland), 1940

Activists of the Union of German girls doing the cleaning, Berlin, date unknown.

The Jews are in the queue to the travel agency hoping to leave Germany, Berlin, January 1939

honeymooner flaunts in an SS uniform at the wedding, December 1942

The members of the NSDAP with the election campaign at the gates of the church, Berlin, July 23, 1933

Ritual jumping over the fire during the traditional celebration of the summer solstice, Berlin, 1937

Reichs Bishop Ludwig Müller gives a speech at the Berlin Cathedral pulpit, wrapped in a Nazi flag, September 1934

SA stormtroopers hung leaflets calling for a boycott in the window shops belonging to Jews, April 1, 1933

Newlyweds admire their rings, unknown place, 1944

Infants under the program "Lebensborn" - descendants of carefully selected "racially pure" parents, September 1941

Two SS men at the christening of a child, in 1936

Children saluting the flag in one of the camps for evacuees, date unknown.

miraculously survived a Jewish store, after Kristallnacht - the terrible pogrom, during which destroyed thousands of synagogues and Jewish firms, Berlin, November 10, 1938