9. To what extent did Hitler Achieve Gleichschaltung and Volksgemeinschaft?

Question 1

Gleichschaltung

Answer 1

Nazi policy to bring everything under state control

Question 2

Volksgemeinschaft

Answer 2

The people’s community

Question 3

Ways in which terror was used to achieve Gleichschaltung and Volksgemeinschaft (6)

Answer 3

Night of the Long Knives
Gestapo - although a small group, it was believed that they were everywhere and were all-knowing
Voluntary denunciations created fear that no matter what you did to go against the Nazi’s, you’d be caught
Ruthless courts
Intimidations (SS and SA)
Concentration camps

Question 4

Nazi’s re-education policy

Answer 4

If you don’t believe in the Nazi regime you get arrested and beaten up in a cell/threatened until you conform

Question 5

Ways in which propaganda was used to achieve Gleichschaltung and Volksgemeinschaft (4)

Answer 5

Flags and posters everywhere
Media - speakers everywhere glorifying the regime and only pro-Nazi stations on the radio
Pictures in Hitler and Nazi flags had to be in everyone’s house
Newspapers

Question 6

Nazi newspapers

Answer 6

Volkischer Beobachter (the people’s newspapers)
Dear Sturmer (extreme right-wing and anti-Semitic newspaper)

Question 7

Factors showing success of Hitler’s policies towards women (suggesting he achieved Gleichschaltung)

Answer 7

Rise in marriages and live births from 1935-1939
By 1934, 360,000 women left work

Question 8

Factors showing failures of Hitler’s policies towards women (suggesting he didn’t achieve Gleichschaltung)

Answer 8

Number of women in employment rose from 1933-1939
Number of married women in employment rose from 1933-1939
Decrease in average number of children per home from 1933-1939

Question 9

Factors showing success of Hitler’s policies towards the youth (suggesting he achieved Gleichschaltung)

Answer 9

Mass membership of Hitler Youth and League of German Maidens

Question 10

Factors showing failure of Hitler’s policies towards the youth (suggesting he didn’t achieve Gleichschaltung)

Answer 10

Some youth rebel groups existed such as the Swing Youth

Question 11

Factors showing success of Hitler’s policies towards workers (suggesting he achieved Gleichschaltung)

Answer 11

All trade unions merged into the German Labour Service in 1933

Question 12

Factors showing failures of Hitler’s policies towards workers (suggesting he didn’t achieve Gleichschaltung)

Answer 12

Volkswagen program was a scam

Question 13

Factors showing success of Hitler’s policies towards religion (suggesting he achieved Gleichschaltung)

Answer 13

Attempts made to centralised the church

Question 14

Factors showing failures of Hitler’s policies towards religion (suggesting he didn’t achieve Gleichschaltung)

Answer 14

Protest from priests, pastors and even the Pope
Refusal to come under control of Nazi’s - especially the Catholic Church
Confessional Church

Question 15

Factors showing success of Hitler’s policies towards the economy (suggesting he achieved Gleichschaltung)

Answer 15

Lot’s of industry brought under state ownership for rearmament

Question 16

Factors showing failures of Hitler’s policies towards the economy (suggesting he didn’t achieve Gleichschaltung)

Answer 16

Economy didn’t grow or produce for the people in the way that the Nazi’s wanted
Nazis had to create food/resources in substandard ways in order to cut costs