CiviliansAtWar

=Social and economic effects of the war on civilians in Britain and EITHER Germany OR the Soviet Union=


 * Social**


 * 100,000+ British people had to camp in the underground subway to avoid being bombed.
 * Every British person had to leave houses wearing gas masks - scores of gas attacks on civilian populations
 * There were no lengthy recruitment campaigns this time round. Conscription had been introduced in April 1939 in Britain.
 * Britain declared Total War early but Hitler still wanted to keep the German's way of life. Total War started in Germany in 1942.


 * Economic**

= = =Nazi racial policies: the Holocaust and the persecution of minorities.=
 * Soviet industry was in a critical state following the german invasion
 * Germany cities lay in absolute ruins as anglo-american bombs rained down on them and as soviet artillery pounded them without respite.
 * The Blitz was aimed at softening up the country for possible German invasion.


 * Homosexuals, gypsies, disabled
 * Jews sent to Ghettos
 * non aryan racial types such as slavic people and gypsies
 * the "Final Solution" was the plan to eradicate the Hews as the nazis started to lose.
 * Just as species were involved in a struggle for the survival of the fittest, so too were nations.
 * Nazi ideology was based on a Darwinist approach to race.
 * A month earlier (from when?) Jews from Austria were sent to Poland.