Germany During The War Flashcards
Beginning
Not much impact
Autarky
Increase morale, invaded others
Total war
1943
Total focus on fighting, defeating others
Rationing
Potatoes, butter, bread, eggs, food distribution made fair
Manual workers got more in canteen
Increased in total war
Clothes, shoes, loo roll, restrict water use
Pots, pans
Bombing raids
1942 BR by allies 1943 Hamburg, Berlin 1945 Dresden Increase in intensity Decrease morale 2mn homes destroyed 30000died per raid
De on the retreat
Morale decreased
Looting
Black market
Did well in war
Farmers grew own food away from raids
Afford BM goods
Goods, skills to trade with
Not well in war
Groups not helped by De Less rations, only given spuds Lived in towns, cities, BR No help No goods or skills to trade with
Women
Encouraged to work when men went to war
Labour Ministry and Armaments Ministry
Persuaded govt to get more women working
Women from De captured areas forced to work in De
Childless married women conscripted 1943
NSF
Home battlefront
DWF
Work in munitions
HY
Evacuate children to evacuation camp
Help in camp, trained as firefighters
1944 17year olds conscripted
Edleweiss Pirates
Resistance group against war policies
Uniform, check shirts, dark trousers
Beat up HY
Collect Allied propaganda put through letterboxes
1944 assassinate, Head of Gestapo in Cologne
The White Rose Group
1941
Munich uni members
Publicise crimes against Jews, gather support to oppose Nazi policies
Ring leaders killed 1943
Operation Valkyrie
Army did not support H, did not do well
1944 July, kill H, stauffenburg
H, excecuted 5746 people as revenge
19 gens, 26 colonels
