position in society. Land ownership was the deciding factor in social status - the elite having the most land. The elite would hire people with less land to tend to theirs. Many men in the village depended on the elite for part of their income. Once the men went to work in the urban areas, the elite began to feel threatened. Their status had never been threatened before, and when they began losing their men to industry, they didn't know what to do. The village began to organize activities to keep the people happy. With the elite feeling pressure to maintain their status, and poor feeling pressure to merely survive, there was constant tension between villagers. The social activities succeeded in keeping the tension down on the surface, but underneath, deep rifts were forming between the social classes.
             Economics were also a rocky spot for the villagers. the traditional agricultural economy began to suffer when the men went to work for industry. The households in the village now only produced enough to feed the family. The men were brining in the income for the family from industry. In the last years of the Weimar Republic when the bottom fell out of industry, the men had no choice but to go back to the village and once again depend solely on agriculture for income. This back and forth was not good for any involved. The men were used to depending on agriculture, it had been bred into them, but the women and children had had a taste of something different. It wasn't so easy for them to go back to their old ways. The unstable economy had also struck a chord that would have a hand in the transformation of everyday life in German villages.
             All of this unrest in German village societies paved the way for Nazi integration. Everyone was eager for change. Things were happening that were turning everything they had known for so long completely upside down.
             When the rifts between social classes began to form in...