chap 3.2 impact of hitler's rule

Question 1

economic impacts of hitler’s rule?

Answer 1

• —> re-employment
• —> rise of big industrialists
• —> control of trade unions
• —> organising worker’s leisure time

Question 2

rise of big industrialists

Answer 2

• —> big businesses had close rs with nazis
• —> industries important to germany were subsidised and imports barred
• —> production of important products like oil, steel, coal and explosives increased
• —> companies that produced these were given valuable government contacts to make this items
• —> in return, they were supported by the government
• —> a ban on trade union also helped the big businesses
• —> workers were also under the strict control of the govt

Question 3

control of trade unions

Answer 3

• —> german labour front was set up to replace the banned trade unions
• —> it achieved its aim of improving productivity but at the expense of workers wage and welfare
• —> workers could not be sacked but were strictly controlled
• —> not allowed to strike/bargain
• —> need govt permission to leave job
• —> imposed wage freeze on all workers

Question 4

re-employment

Answer 4

• —> 5 million ppl unemployed
• —> major crisis in the farming sector
• —> Hitler created jobs
• —> embarked on massive public works programmes like building autobahn
• —> provided infrastructure while creating jobs
• —> Set up Reich labour services
• —> compulsory for young males to work on public work projects
• —> to achieve self-sufficiency, he banned imports and created industries to substitute

Question 5

propaganda

Answer 5

• —> Hitler set up Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and propaganda with Joseph Goebbels as its head
• —> Goebbels believed Hitler was Germanys savior
• —> used every form of media to communicate this idea
• —> made sure ppl were loyal to nazi rule and beliefs
• —> posters and portraits of Hitler spread throughout Germany to brainwash germans
• —> Nuremberg rallies organised to showcase German might and give them a sense of belonging
• —> education placed under strict control
• —> jews and communist portrayed negatively

Question 6

censorship

Answer 6

• —> Goebbels made sure any info against nazi kept away
• —> strict censorship on media
• —> editors of newspapers closely watched to ensure only pro nazi views
• —> removed anti-nazi media and publications in libraries
• —> burnt them in public
• —> radios could only play Hitler’s speeches
• —> listening to foreign stations like BBC punishable by death
• —> only members of Reich chambers of commerce allowed top produce media info

Question 7

secret police

Answer 7

• —> totalitarian state
• —> no opposition
• —> SS and Gestapo
• —> SS establish conc camp
• —> those against nazi sent to conc camp to be punished tortured and worked to death
• —> Gestapo was Nazi secret police
• —> responsible for finding and removing threats to nazi
• —> Gestapo had the power to detain ppl w/o trial

Question 8

role of women

Answer 8

under weimar:
—-> women allowed to hold political and professional positions

under Hitler:

• —> role of women is mother and wife
• —> women is child-bearer
• —> Women should not be involved in politics
• —> women discouraged from working
• —> doctors, lawyers removed from jobs

Question 9

Youth

Answer 9

• —> viewed as key to future of Germany
• —> great care for them
• —> Hitler youth set up to indoctrinate them w nazi ideology
• —> membership compulsory
• —> school was propaganda to germans