Culture/Women/Education

Question 1

What was the Weimar ‘New Objectivity’ Movement?

Answer 1

• A 1920s arts/theatre/literature movement.
• Commented on social and political themes.
• Essentially ended with the rise of the Nazi party.

Question 2

What was the Nazi ‘People’s Receiver’?

Answer 2

• Cheap radio handsets restricted to Nazi propaganda

- 70% of Germans owned one by 1939.

Question 3

How many Germans had a ‘People’s Receiver’ in 1939?

Answer 3

-70% of Germans owned one by 1939.

Question 4

What was Weimar Cabaret?

Answer 4

• Weimar restaurants or nightclubs wherein people drank and celebrated.
• IUsed satirical comedy, jazz and semi-nude dancers to mock conventions of old Germany.
• Banned in Nazi Germany.

Question 5

What was the Nazi ‘Reich Chamber of Culture’?

Answer 5

• 1933
• Headed by Goebbels
• Was in charge of suppressing culture through censorship

Question 6

When was the Nazi ‘Reich Chamber of Culture’ introduced?

Answer 6

1933

Question 7

What was the Weimar ‘UFA film company’?

Answer 7

• Government organised

- Showed films with a range of subject matter such as ‘Metropolis’

Question 8

What caused culture to rapidly develop in Weimar Germany?

Answer 8

• The Bill of Rights in the Weimar constitution.

- Enabled freedoms and various forms of equality.

Question 9

How did some conservative Germans view the Weimar cultural change?

Answer 9

-They saw it as a decline in both moral and cultural standards.

Question 10

By the end of Weimar Germany how many Germans owned a radio?

Answer 10

-1 in 4 Germans owned a radio by 1932.

Question 11

What was the Nazi “Degenerate” Art Exhibition?

Answer 11

• 1937 in Munich

- Nazi propaganda rejecting past Weimar cultural projects.

Question 12

When did the Nazis burn books and how many?

Answer 12

• May 1933
• Mass burning of 25,000 books which disagreed with Nazi values.
• For example, “All quiet on the Western Front” a novel made by a WW1 German Veteran critiquing the conditions of war.

Question 13

How many German writers left the country under Nazi rule? (1933-1945)

Answer 13

-2500 German writers left

Question 14

What was Weimar culture particularly influenced by?

Answer 14

• Western Cultures

- E.g. Jazz

Question 15

What type of schools were set up under the Weimar Republic?

Answer 15

• Compulsory Grandschule for children 6-10 run by Lander.
• Common schools - various faiths, religion taught separately.
• Confessional schools - faith schools which became fee paying.
• Secular Schools - no religious education

Question 16

What type of schools were set up under the Weimar Republic?

Answer 16

• Compulsory Grandschule for children 6-10 run by Lander.
• Common schools - various faiths, religion taught separately.
• Confessional schools - faith schools which became fee paying.
• Secular Schools - no religious education

Question 17

What was the structure of the Weimar Republic?

Answer 17

• Lander in charge (decentralised)
• Diverse (Secular + Confessional + common)
• Compulsory aged 6-10

Question 18

What education existed beyond the age of 10?

Answer 18

• Fee-paying:
• Hauptschule: Trade
• Realschule: Business
• Gymnasium: University

Question 19

Did Weimar Republic encourage more w/c to go to university?

Answer 19

Yes however only 2.3% of students who went to university had middle class parents.

Question 20

How many women had seats in the Reichstag 1919-32?

Answer 20

112 women

Question 21

What did Article 109 of the Weimar constitution say?

Answer 21

In principle women and equal rights - marriage should be equal and women should be able to enter professions.

Question 22

What continuity remained in the Weimar Republic

Answer 22

• Women paid 33% less than men in office work.
• Employers still preferred single women
• Hard to find childcare

Question 23

Why did the depression affect women less than men?

Answer 23

• Women were cheaper to employ

- 1932 46% of men unemployed, only 33% of women.

Question 24

What factors increased hostility towards women?

Answer 24

• The depression

- Unemployment

Question 25

What were traits of teachers in the Weimar Republic?

Answer 25

• Right Wing

- Not well paid

Question 26

What type of curriculum did the Weimar Republic have?

Answer 26

Diverse curriculum