8.1A&B How did the Nazis change the lives of young people?

Question 1

How did Hitler describe the young people he wanted to create?

Answer 1

’young men and woman who can suffer pain. They must be as fast as a greyhound, as tough as leather and as hard as steel’

Question 2

When was the Hitler Youth organisation set up

Answer 2

1922

Question 3

What did they do in Hitler Youth

Answer 3

• met after school to talk about Nazi beliefs and ideas
• boys learned military skills
• girls learned how to be good wives and mothers

Question 4

What did Hitler do to other youth groups when he came to power

Answer 4

he banned them

Question 5

When was the Law for the Incorporation of German Youth made and what did it say

Answer 5

• 1936
• said that Hitler Youth was legally as important as a child’s school and home life
• organisation also controlled sports facilities and youth competitions for children under 14

Question 6

When was membership to Hitler Youth made compulsory?

Answer 6

1939

Question 7

What did a boy’s journey look like through Nazi youth clubs?

Answer 7

• would join ‘Little fellows’ from 6-10
• would join ‘Young Folk’ from 10-14
• would join Hitler Youth from 14-18

Question 8

What did boys do in Hitler Youth?

Answer 8

• special weekend camps every month
• they learned how to march, fight with knives, fire a gun, keep fit
• emphasis was on competition, struggle, heroism and leadership

Question 9

What would a girl’s journey look like through Nazi youth clubs

Answer 9

• ‘Young Girls’ from 10-14
• ‘League of German Girls’ from 14-17

Question 10

What did the girls do in youth clubs

Answer 10

• went on tough marches and attended weekend camps every month
• kept fit, cooked, cleaned, looked after babies
• to prepare them for motherhood

Question 11

Examples of youth groups that were against Hitler

Answer 11

Edelweiss Pirates, Roving Dudes, Navajos

Question 12

What did youth groups against Hitler do

Answer 12

Went camping, sang songs that made fun of Hitler, attacked Hitler Youth Groups

Question 13

Swing Youth def

Answer 13

group of young Germans who refused to join the Hitler Youth Organisation

Question 14

What did Hitler want to use the school system to do?

Answer 14

To brainwash young Germans into loving him and the Nazi party

Question 15

What did students study in history

Answer 15

key German military victories, how badly German y was treated at the end of WW1

Question 16

What did students learn in geography

Answer 16

areas that Germany would soon conquer

Question 17

What did students learn in science

Answer 17

weapon making and chemical warfare

Question 18

what did students learn in maths

Answer 18

how much money Germany would save if there were no disabled people

Question 19

how did the timetable change?

Answer 19

• PE time trebled
• race studies introduced

Question 20

what was race studies also called and what did they learn

Answer 20

• eugenics
• taught students how mental and physical characteristics of the human race could be ‘improved’ by choosing who could become parents
• inferiority of black people, Eastern Europeans and Jews

Question 21

What organisation did all teachers have to join

Answer 21

German Teachers League

Question 22

What happened if students were identified as future Nazi leaders

Answer 22

• sent to special academies known as ‘Napolas’ (National Political Educational Institutions)
• Hitler Youth Organisation set up ‘Adolf Hitler Schools’
• after intense training, those who graduated were ‘ideal Nazis’

Question 23

What happened to German universities?

Answer 23

• professors were replaced for racial and political reasons
• leading academics left the country (Albert Einstein)
• universities had to change their courses to reflect Nazi beliefs
• eg physics didn’t include theory of relativity bc Einstein was Jewish
• top professors picked by Nazis
• students had to train as a soldier 1 month per year

Question 24

did the Nazis think university was important

Answer 24

no, fewer Germans attended university in the Nazi era