Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

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No matter what, life always goes on. The new state regime can pursue a policy that many suffer from, but at the same time the citizens who are not affected by it continue to live their normal lives.

While the Nazis brutally persecuted Jews and everyone else they considered second-class people, many Germans did not notice any special changes in their daily routine. They went to school, joined clubs, got married, worked, made purchases…

It was an ordinary life against the background of one of the most terrible periods in history. Then, when the war broke out, destruction and violence touched everyone — but even against the background of the war, civilian life in the rear did not stop.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

These photos show what "normal" life looked like in Nazi Germany, which existed from 1933 to 1945.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

1. Students greet the teacher, Berlin, January 1934

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

2. Children buy fruit ice cream from a tray, Berlin, 1934

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

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

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

4. Children wave flags, leaving Berlin for evacuation, circa 1940-1945.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

5. Representatives of the Union of German Girls (the female equivalent of the Hitler Youth) are engaged in gymnastics, 1941.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

6. German children at a geography lesson at a Nazi school in Silesia (Poland), October 1940.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

7. Members of the Hitler Youth tug of war in gas masks, Worms, 1933

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

8. Distribution of portraits of Adolf Hitler for hanging in apartments, a camp for displaced persons in Lublin (Poland), 1940.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

9. Members of the Hitler Youth on a campaign, place unknown, 1933

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

10. Passers—by read a propaganda stand with the headline "Jews are our trouble", Worms, 1933.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

11. Members of the Imperial Labor Service, where all young men were conscripted for six months, on field work, circa 1940.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

12. Children with Down syndrome in the Schoenbrunn psychiatric Clinic, 1934 Initially, all children with developmental delays were forcibly sterilized, later all mentally ill people were physically destroyed.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

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

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

14. A family looks with admiration at a boy in a Hitler Youth uniform, February 1943.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

15. A Jewish woman examines the goods of a street vendor, Radom (Poland), 1940.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

16. Activists of the Union of German Girls are cleaning, Berlin, date unknown.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

17. Jews stand in line at a travel agency hoping to leave Germany, Berlin, January 1939.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

18. The newlywed flaunts in uniform SS at the wedding, December 1942

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

19. Members of the NSDAP with election campaigning at the gates of the church, Berlin, July 23, 1933.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

20. Ritual jumping over a bonfire during the traditional summer solstice festival, Berlin, 1937

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

21. Reich Bishop Ludwig Muller delivers a speech in Berlin Cathedral from a pulpit wrapped in a Nazi flag, September 1934.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

22. SA stormtroopers hang leaflets calling for a boycott on the window of a Jewish-owned shop on April 1, 1933.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

23. The newlyweds admire their rings, the place is unknown, 1944

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

24. Newborns under the Lebensborn program are descendants of carefully selected "racially pure" parents, September 1941.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

25. Two SS men at the christening of a child, 1936

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

26. Children salute banners in one of the camps for evacuees, the date is unknown.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

27. Miraculously surviving Jewish store after Kristallnacht — a terrible pogrom during which thousands of synagogues and Jewish offices were destroyed, Berlin, November 10, 1938.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

28. A French woman in forced factory work, Berlin, 1943

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

29. Ostarbeiters at lunch at the Scherl Publishing House, Berlin, February 1943.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

30. Children with their parents descend into a bomb shelter, Berlin, October 1941.

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

31. Boys at night in the bomb shelter of the Imperial Ministry of Aviation, Berlin, 1940

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

32. Men, women and children fighting fires after an air raid, location unknown, 1942

Monsters or ordinary people? What the everyday life of the Third Reich looked like

33. The mayor of Leipzig committed suicide in the workplace, fearing retribution, 1945.

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