Aspects Of German Life 1918-1933

Question 1

1919 Article 109

Answer 1

Men and women have the same fundamental rights as citizens including the right to vote and hold office.

Question 2

1919 Article 113

Answer 2

Guaranteed rights of ethnic minorities, stating they can use their own language and keep their national identity.

Question 3

1919 Article 118

Answer 3

No censorship although ‘obscene’ works could be banned

Question 4

The German People’s Offensive and Defensive Alliance

Answer 4

Organisation set up in 1919 that was strong anti Semitic and had 25000 member. 170000 by the time it disbanded in 1923

Question 5

Bauhaus design school

Answer 5

Set up by Walter Gropius in 1919 and world renown for design, craftsmanship and architecture

Question 6

Compulsory education

Answer 6

Until 18 in 1920

Question 7

Mixed race children

Answer 7

French occupation in the Ruhr led to 500 mixed race children ‘Germany’s shame’ in 1923

Question 8

Gypsies in Bavaria

Answer 8

Passed a series of laws restricting their rights in 1926, in 1927 gypsies had to carry ID cards

Question 9

Prostitution

Answer 9

Decriminalised in 1927

Question 10

Anti war novel

Answer 10

Erich Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front was a best seller in 1929

Question 11

Lives of women

Answer 11

Could attend secondary school and uni
Could not practice elite professions
Campaigned for the vote
Took up more industrial work
Civil code gave men authority in family

Question 12

New Woman

Answer 12

Appeared at parties, parliaments and gatherings
Short hair, short skirts
Fought their way for rights and objectives

Question 13

Eastern German Jews

Answer 13

Arrived from Russia in the late 1800’s due to the Tsars regime persecuting them and were less well off than Western Jews

Question 14

Some aspects of change in women’s lives during the Weimar

Answer 14

• Have the same rights as men
• Over 100 women in the Reichstag by 1920
• Campaigned for free abortion and financial assistance for unmarried mothers
• Increase in divorce rate
• By 1925 1/3 of women worked in the paid labour force
• women in domestic service declined from 17% to 12.5%

Question 15

Some aspects of continuity in women’s lives during the Weimar

Answer 15

• SPD opposed equal pay for women
• Women were expected to work and do domestic chores
• Most women who worked were single and under 25

Question 16

Positive aspects of ethnic minority lives during the Weimar

Answer 16

Black musician and performers who moved to Germany were often praised and welcomed
Jews had well payed dominant jobs
Jews could organise their own groups and some married non-Jews
Poles and Danes were mostly treated well and able to retain their culture

Question 17

Negative aspects of ethnic minority lives during the Weimar

Answer 17

Eastern Jews were less well off and less integrated
700 anti Semitic journals, graveyards desecrated and Jews attacked in streets
Bavaria insisted on identity cards for gypsies in 1927

Question 18

What famous film was released in 1927?

Answer 18

Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’