Fascist Germany- Life in Germany

Question 1

How did the Nazis transform the economy?

Answer 1

-independant trade unions abolished and strikes illegal
-Public work schemes
-Rearmament
-Volkswagen
-Private industries

Question 2

What were the public work schemes?

Answer 2

Created to build motorways (Autobahnen) and Olympic stadium.
These Projects helped unemployed.

Question 3

What was rearament

Answer 3

In violation of treaty of Versailles
-ships, submarines, planes, arms, ammunition manufactured again

Question 4

What was volkswagen

Answer 4

‘People’s car’ designed in 1937, same price as a small motorcycle so it was affordable.

Question 5

How did Hitler encourage private industries

Answer 5

Cut taxes - krupps (steel), Mercedes- Benz ( motors)

Question 6

How did Hitler impact eduaction

Answer 6

Nazi Youth Groups- Hitler Youth, League of German Maidens

Schools- textbooks rewritten to glorify Hitler and Germany. Mein Kampf official history book

Teachers had to be members of Nazi party

Portrait of Hitler in every classom

Question 7

What were women expected to do

Answer 7

Stay at home and look after family
-give up careers such as doctors teachers and civil servants
-women not asked to serve in army

Question 8

Woman’s life revolved around what

Answer 8

3 K’s - Kinder, Kuche, Kirche - Children, kitchen and church

Question 9

Why did Hitler want a high birth rate

Answer 9

SO THE POPULATION WOULD GROW
- women who had more than 8 kids awarded a gold medal

Question 10

Fashion for women

Answer 10

-Traditional peasant costumes with flat shoes
-hair in plaits or buns
-no makeup or trousers, dye in hair or smoke in public.

Question 11

Minister for national enlightenment and propagand

Answer 11

Joseph Goebbels- in control of press, radio, cinemas, theatres and art

Question 12

Book burnings

Answer 12

Books by Jews and any disagreeing with nazism were banned and burned.

Question 13

The people’s radio

Answer 13

Cheap radios by Goebbels so that Hitler speeches reached every home. Loudspeakers installed in streets.

Question 14

Propaganda

Answer 14

-Goebbels
-peoples radio
-book burnings
- posters
-Nazi salute and Heil Hitler
-Nuremberg rallies

Question 15

How were posters used for propaganda

Answer 15

Presented Germany and Hitler as godlike figure

Question 16

What were Nuremberg rallies

Answer 16

Party military rallies held by the Nazi party in Nuremberg, bavaria, annually and with a different theme each year.

Question 17

How did Hitler use Terror

Answer 17

-Gestapo
-Night of the long Knives
-Forcedlabourcamps

Question 18

GESTAPO

Answer 18

-1933
-SECRET police
-led by Heinrich Himmler
-people encouraged to report oJpponents or communists

Question 19

Knight of the long knives

Answer 19

-Hitler believed SA was a threat
-SS set as bodyguards leg by Himmler
-30 June 1934
-2 day purge
-SS killed SAleaders and others suspected a threat.

Question 20

FORCED labour camps

Answer 20

1933
-critics or people considered undesirable sent to labour camps
-journalists, political prisoners (communists), lgbt people, people with disabilities, Jews

Question 21

Anti Semitism

Answer 21

Hatred or prejudice of jews and acting on the hatred (persecution)

Question 22

Examples of anti - semitism

Answer 22

-Nuremberg laws
-Kristllnacht

Question 23

Nuremberg laws

Answer 23

-1935
-made for ‘protection’ of Germans and removed the rights of Jews.
-eg to be German citizens
-to votes
-own property
-hold state payed jobs
-marry non Jewish citizens

Question 24

What did Jews have to wear

Answer 24

Yellow Star of David with 6 points

Question 25

Kristallnacht

Answer 25

-1938 nov, Jewish teen murderd German diplomat in Paris.
-Followed by 2 day riot across Germany and parts of Austria

• Night of the Broken glass
• thousands of jewish owned buildings (businesses, synagogues, cemeteries) destroyed
  -100 Jews killed and thousands sent to concentration camps