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Chapter 16 - final Flashcards

1
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How did the Nazis establish control over teachers?

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  • The Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service allowed some teachers to be dismissed.
  • Teachers were forced to join the National Socialist Teachers’ League (NSLB).
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When was the NSLB created?

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April 1929

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3
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What received a greater emphasis under the Nazi school curriculum?

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Physical education - military style drills were a feature of P.E. lessons.

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4
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What happened to the number of students attending university between 1933 and 1939?

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It decreased as the Nazis placed less emphasis on the importance of academic education.

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5
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What percentage of university places were reserved for women?

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10%

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6
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What percentage of university places were reserved for Jews?

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1.5%

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How many university staff were dismissed because of the Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service?

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1200 - about 15%

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How were students at university controlled?

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They were made to join the German Students’ League (DS).

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9
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What proportion of students managed to avoid joining the DS?

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25%

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10
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When was the Hitler Youth created?

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1926

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What did the Law for the Incorporation of German Youth do?

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Made the Hitler Youth an official education movement, equal in status to schools.

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12
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When was the Law for the Incorporation of German Youth passed?

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1936

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13
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When was membership of the Hitler Youth made compulsory?

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1939

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14
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What motto were boys taught from the age of 10?

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‘Live faithfully, fight bravely and die laughing’

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15
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What was the purpose of the Hitler Youth?

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To indoctrinate young boys with Nazi ideology and prepare them for war.

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16
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What was the female equivalent of the Hitler Youth?

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League of German Girls (BDM)

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17
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What was the motto of the BDM?

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‘Be faithful, be pure, be German’

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18
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When did membership of the BDM become compulsory?

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1939

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What was the aim of the BDM?

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Prepare girls for their role as mothers and housewives.

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How did the Nazis view the declining birth rate in the 1920s?

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With alarm as it undermined their aim to settle Germans in newly acquired territory.

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21
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What was the main Nazi policy towards women after 1933?

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Raise the birth rate.

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22
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Who received marriage loans?

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Women who left work and married an Aryan man. For each child born the amount of the loan that had to be repaid was reduced.

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23
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How many babies earned you a bronze medal?

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4-5

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24
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How many babies earned you a silver medal?

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6-7

25
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How many babies earned you a gold medal?

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8

26
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What was the German Women’s League (DFW)?

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Organisation that coordinated all women’s groups under Nazi control.

27
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How many members did the German Women’s League (DFW) have by 1939?

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6 million

28
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Of the 6 million members of the DFW, how many were Nazi Party members?

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30%

29
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What was the Reich Mother’s Service (RMD)?

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An organisation that trained women in the important duties of motherhood and domestic tasks.

30
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How many women had attended the training services of the RMD by 1939?

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1.7 million

31
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What happened to the number of women in the workforce between 1933 and 1939?

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Despite it running counter to their ideology and efforts, the number actually increased as ideology gave way to economic realities in the form of labour shortages.

32
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When were trade unions banned?

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2 May 1933

33
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When was the German Labour Front (DAF) established?

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6 May 1933

34
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What were the two main aims of the DAF?

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Win workers over to the volksgemeinschaft and increase production.

35
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What was the Strength Through Joy (KdF) organisation?

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An organisation that sought to organise workers’ leisure time in the hope that workers would be refreshed by holidays and more efficient when they returned to work.

36
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What were the aims of the KdF?

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  • Encourage workers to see themselves as part of the volksgemeinschaft and not an individual.
  • Encourage a spirit of social equality as there was no distinction between rich and poor.
  • Encourage participation in sport.
  • Encourage competition and ambition.
37
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What did members of the KdF receive?

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  • Subsidised holidays in Germany and abroad.

- Discounts on theatre and cinema tickets.

38
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How many people belonged to the KdF by 1936?

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35 million

39
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What was the German Evangelical Church?

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The main Protestant church in Germany.

40
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How did the Nazis view the German Evangelical Church?

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A potential nucleus for a single national Church.

41
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Why did German Protestants tend to support the Nazis?

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Many were anti-Semitic, anti-communist, and had a tradition of cooperation with the State.

42
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When were elections to the Evangelical Church held?

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July 1933

43
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What happened in the Church elections of 1933?

A

The Nazis won a sweeping victory.

44
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Who was appointed Reich Bishop?

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Ludwig Muller

45
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What did the position of Reich Bishop allow Ludwig Muller to do?

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Nazify the Church, abolishing all elected bodies and reorganised it along the leadership principle.

46
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When was the Confessional Church established?

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September 1933

47
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Who set up the Confessional Church?

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Martin Niemoller

48
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Who was the Confessional Church?

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A breakaway Protestant Church consisting of pastors that resisted the Nazification of the Evangelical Church.

49
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How many pastors supported the Confessional Church?

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5000

50
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When were church schools abolished?

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Late 1930s

51
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What was the Church Secession Campaign?

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A campaign that tried to persuade party members to renounce their church membership.

52
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Why was the Catholic Church a greater obstacle than the Protestant Church?

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Catholics were part of an international community with the Pope as their leader.

53
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Where were the areas of overlap between the Catholics and Nazis?

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Catholics saw communism as a greater threat than Nazism and many were also anti-Semitic.

54
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When was the Concordat agreed?

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July 1933

55
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What did the Concordat state?

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  • The Catholic Church would not interfere with politics and the Nazis would keep out of the Catholic Church.
  • The Church would keep control of schools and youth organisations.
56
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Who was Fritz Gerlich and what happened to him?

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He was editor of a Catholic journal and a critic of the regime who was murder in the NOTLK.

57
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Who issued With Burning Brief and when?

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Pope Pius XI in March 1937

58
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What had happened to all Church schools by 1939?

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They had been converted into community schools.

59
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Who was the editor of a Catholic journal murdered during the Night of the Long Knives?

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Fritz Gerlich

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