5- Nazi Economic, Social And Racial Policy

Question 1

What did the Nazis do to reduce unemployment?

Answer 1

RAD, autobahns, conscription, rearmament, invisible unemployed

Question 2

What was the RAD and when was it introduced

Answer 2

Introduced 1935, The National Labout Service Corps (RAD) were introduced to encourage the spirit of National Socialism whilst also providing Germany with a cheap labour force to reduce unemployment.

Compulsory for men aged 18-25

Question 3

Who were the invisible unemployed?

Answer 3

People such as women, Jews, prisoners etc who were not included in unemployment statistics in order to make it seem like the Nazis are doing a better job at reducing unemployment

Question 4

When was conscription reintroduced and what happened as a result

Answer 4

Reintroduced 1935, army grew from 100,000 in 1933 to 1,400,000 in 1939

Question 5

What was rearmament and what effect did it have

Answer 5

Reduced unemployment by creating jobs in factories in order to re arm the German military

Question 6

When did the nazis ban trade unions

Answer 6

May 1933

Question 7

What replaced trade unions?

Answer 7

The German Labour Front (DAF)

Question 8

What was the purpose of the DAF

Answer 8

Included employers and workers and was supposed to represent the interests of both.

Workers given relatively high wages, job security and social&leisure programmes

Question 9

What was the Volkswagen scheme and when was it introduced

Answer 9

1938, gave workers the opportunity to buy their own car, although no one received any as in 1939 production shifted to military vehicles.

Question 10

What was the Strength through joy (KdF) programme

Answer 10

Set up to improve leisure time for German workers and reward them.

Included concerts, sporting events and holidays

Question 11

What was the beauty of work programme

Answer 11

Set up by the KdF to improve working conditions.

It organised the building of canteens, swimming pools and sports facilities.

Question 12

What view did the Nazis have of women

Answer 12

Very traditional view.
Women didn’t wear makeup, didn’t work snd didn’t have an interest in politics. Women discouraged from slimming as bad for childbearing.

Question 13

When was the Law for Encouragement of Marriage introduced and what did it do. How were people rewarded

Answer 13

Introduced 1933 in order to increase Germanys birth rate.

On hitlers mothers birthday medals were awarded to women with large families

Question 14

What was the Lebensborn (life springs) programme?

Answer 14

Set up to force unmarried women to become pregnant by ‘racially pure’ SS men.

Question 15

What 3 Ks were women encouraged to stick to

Answer 15

Kinder-children, kuche- Kitchen, kirche- church

Question 16

How did Hitler use the education system to indoctrinate Nazi ideals into youth?

Answer 16

All textbooks to be approved by Ministry of Education,

Mein Kampf became a standard text,

School teachers had to swear loyalty to Hitler and join the Nazi Teachers’ League,

All lessons began and ending with the students saluting and saying heil Hitler,

Nazi themes presented through every subject,

Great emphasis on aryan race,

Hitler youth,

Question 17

How did Hitler use the Hitler youth

Answer 17

Nazi ideals such as obedience, following the Fuhrer and racial purity etc were enforced.

Compulsory from 1939

Question 18

What did Nazis consider Jews and Slavs

Answer 18

Subhuman and 2nd class citizens

Question 19

How did Hitler hope to create a pure racial state

Answer 19

Selective breeding and destroying the Jews (Social darwinism)

Question 20

How was this treatment of Jews shown in schools

Answer 20

Anti semitic material in classrooms,

In 1936 Jewish teachers forbidden to teach German children

In 1938 Jewish children expelled from German schools

Question 21

What year did the SA organise a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

Answer 21

1933

Question 22

When did local councils pan Jews from public spaces such as parks & pools

Answer 22

1934

Question 23

What were the Nuremberg Laws and when were they passed

Answer 23

1935, a series of laws against the Jews

Question 24

What caused the Kristallnacht

Answer 24

On 8th November 1938 a Polish Jew assassinated a German in the German embassy in Paris. Goebbles used this as am opportunity for retaliation against the Jews of Germany.

Question 25

What was the Kristallnscht and when was it?

Answer 25

Anti-Jewish demonstrations organised, involving attacks on Jewish property, shops and synagogues. 9-10 November 1938.

100 Jews killed

Question 26

What happened as a result of the Kristallnacht

Answer 26

Hitler blamed the Jews for provoking the attacks and fined them 1 billion reichsmarks as compensation for the damage caused.

Jews couldn’t own businesses.

Question 27

When was the Reich Office for Jewish Emigration established and what did it do

Answer 27

January 1939

Ss responsible for removing Jews through forced emigration.

From April 1939 Jews were evicted from their homes and forces into designated ghettos.

In September 1939, Jews forced to hand in their radio sets so they couldn’t listen to foreign news.