This podcast focuses on the what life was like under the Nazis up to 1939.  The key area to consider is if Hitler was able to improve the quality of German people’s lives.  We focus initially on how Hitler maintained his dictatorship through the use of terror and persecution, particularly of minorities such as the Jews, through propaganda and censorship and through his control of education.  We focus too on the changing role of women under the Nazis, how the Nazis were able to achieve economic recovery and how they controlled nearly all aspects of people’s lives including their leisure time.