4.16 Social Polcies

Question 1

What was Hitler’s overall aim for social policy?

Answer 1

Individuals have no private space to act or think independently of regime-youth were target to create a new German man and women

Question 2

What weed the two ways Nazis gained control over schools

Answer 2

-control over teachers
-control over the curriculum

Question 3

Schools: how did Nazis gain control over teachers?

(3)

Answer 3

-law for re-establishment of a professional civil service (1933) number of teachers dismissed on grounds of political unreliability or they were Jewish

-teachers pressured into joining national socialist teachers league

-ministry of education tells teachers what to and what not to teach

Question 4

Schools: how did Nazis gain control over the curriculum?

Answer 4

-aim to promote racial health led to increase emphases on physical education

-aim to install consciousness of being German

-biology study on race and heredity

-geography use to develop concept of Lebensraum and German racial superiority

Question 5

Between 1933-39 number of students attending uni…

Answer 5

Decrease due to downgraded academic importance

Question 6

What did the Nazis do to universities?(5)

Answer 6

-under law for reestablishment of a professional civil service 12000 university staff dismissed on racial or political grounds (15% total)

-Nov 1933 all teachers made to sign a declaration of support to Hitler and the national socialist state

-students and to join German students league although 25% managed to avoid it

Students forced to do 4 months labour serivce and 2 months SA camp

(Students knew career prospects depended on supporting regime;

Question 7

When was the Hitler youth created?

Answer 7

1926

Question 8

When does Hitler youth legally become an educational movement ?

Answer 8

1936 law for incorporation of Hitler youth

Question 9

When does Hitler youth become compulsory

Answer 9

1939

Question 10

Hitler youth membership 1939

Answer 10

8,000,000+

Question 11

What happens to Hitler youth by 1936

Answer 11

Granted monopoly over all sports facilities and competitions for kids under age of 14

Question 12

When does league of German girls become compulsory(BDM(

Answer 12

1939

Question 13

When were firms made to do a years work on land

Answer 13

1934 made compulsory 1939

Question 14

How did the Nazis attempt to increase the birth rate ?(4)

Answer 14

-marriage loans for women who left employment and married an Aryan man

-awarded medals for number of babies (8 for gold)

-abortion restricted

-women encouraged not to smoke and adopt a healthy lifestyle

Question 15

How did Nazis promote their values through organisations for women?(3)

Answer 15

-German women’s league set up in 1933 coordinate women’s groups under Nazi control by 1939 6 million members

-national socialist women’s organisation elite organisation to promote nations love life marriage, the family blood and race

-Reich mother service branch of DFW for training physically and mentally able mothers convinced them of important duties of motherhood by 1939 1.7 mill women attended motherhood training services

Question 16

When was the German labour front(DAF) established?

Answer 16

May 1933

Question 17

What were the two aims of German labour front (DAF)

Answer 17

Encourage workers to increase population
Win over workers to volksgemeinschaft

Question 18

What was the subsidiary section of the DAF

Answer 18

Strength through joy(organise workers leisure time)

Question 19

How many DAF employees by 1939

Answer 19

44,000

Question 20

What was the idea of strength through joy

Answer 20

Workers who enjoyed holidays would be fisher and more motivated to work better

Question 21

What were the aims of strength through joy?(5)

Answer 21

-encourage social equality treat rich and poor the same

-make workers see themselves as part of volksgemeinschaft with leisure time and work regulated by regime

-break down regional differences by drinking Germans from different areas of the country

-encourage participation in sport to improve mental and physical health of nation

-encourage competition and ambition

By 1936 35 million people belonged to it

Question 22

When is the Protestant evangelical church centralised into a Reich church?

Answer 22

Summer of 1933- end of 1933 Reich church part of volksgemeinschaft

Aryan paragraph meant 18 pastors were dismissed

Question 23

What was the confessional church?

Answer 23

A break away church with support of 5000 pastors to re-establish theology based purely on the bible

Question 24

What was the concordat 1933

Answer 24

Catholic trade unions volemtarlity disbanded

Catholic church not interfere with politics

Regime not interfere with schools and youth organisations of the church

Question 25

How did the Nazis increase pressure on the Catholic Church?

Answer 25

-permission to hold public meetings severely restricte

-catholics newspapers and magazines censored

-catholic youth members a,so had to join Hitler youth

Question 26

What did the regime do in response to pope Pius XI encyclical entities with burning grief

Answer 26

Gestapo and SS agents placed in Catholic organisations

Tightening restrictions on catholic press

Many monasteries were closed down and their assets seized

Goebbels publicised sex scan does 200 priests arrested and tried