Germany KQ3

Question 1

What did the unemployment change by between 1933 and 39

Answer 1

6 million to 302 thousand, almost 5.7 million less

Question 2

How did they help unemployment decrease?

Answer 2

Factories were built to make weapons
National Labour Service (RAD) created to make jobs- all men aged 18-25 had to serve for 6 months
Improved incentives
Construction of the autobahn (motorway)

Question 3

How did hitler bend the truth about unemployment?

Answer 3

Neither women or Jews were included

1935- Conscription was introduced and people doing there time in the army weren’t counted

Question 4

How did marriage change for women in the nazi era?

Answer 4

1933 law for the encouragement of marriage- newly married couples given an interest free loan of 1000 marks decreasing by 25% per child if the women gave up her job and didn’t return to the labour industry
1935- Lebensborn “donate a baby to the führer” by having it with an SS member

Question 5

How were women motivated to have so many Children?

Answer 5

Medals- motherhood cross bronze for 4-5 silver for 6-7 and gold for 8+
Propaganda
Money

Question 6

Jobs for women

Answer 6

Work at home
3Ks Kinder(children) kuche(kitchen) kirche(church)

Question 7

Give 3 examples of the appearance restrictions for women

Answer 7

Bun or plait
No trousers
No diet
No make up

Question 8

How did school change?

Answer 8

Textbooks re-written to suit nazis mein Kampf a core text
Teachers swear an oath to the führer, as many as 36% nazi party members
Salute to hitler
Geography about evil neighbours
Maths about burning Jewish textbooks, also taught not to marry Jews
15% PE

Question 9

Hitler youth

Answer 9

Introduced in 1925
4 million members 1936, 7 million by the end of the year when it was compulsory
14-18 year old boys had to join, it started off fun, they learned nazi ideas, did athletics, hiking and camping. However it ended up like military training
10-14 German Young People was compulsory

Question 10

What was the female variant of the hitler youth called?

Answer 10

League of German Maidens

Learned motherly, marriage and domestic skills

Question 11

1933 what did the sa do?

Answer 11

Boycott Jewish businesses

Question 12

1934 where couldn’t Jews go?

Answer 12

Public places

Question 13

What laws were passed in 1935?

Answer 13

Nuremberg
Jews were no longer citizens
No vote
No sex or marriage with Germans

Question 14

What did Jews have to carry in 1938?

Answer 14

Identity cards, middle name Israel or Sarah

Question 15

What happened on 9th November 1938?

Answer 15

A polish jew, Herschel Grynspan, shot a German official so nazis smashed windows and burned 191 synagogues many 100 died and 30,000 sent to concentration camps, 7,500 shops destroyed

Question 16

Who helped unemployment decrease?

Answer 16

Hjalmar Schacht, president of the reichstag was responsible

Question 16

KDF

Answer 16

Strength through joy
Offered incentives for people to work
e.g. cheap holiday camps, theatre trips, cars

Question 17

German labour front (DAF)

Answer 17

Nazi trade union led by dr ley
Workers were disciplined with low wages
Workers could not be sacked
Workers coudnt leave a job without government permission

Question 18

Kristallnacht results

Answer 18

Jewish community fined 1 billion marks plus

115,000 left Germany in the next 12 months, 400,000 from 1933

Question 19

Women’s education

Answer 19

To prevent overcrowding of German universities a new law was passed restricting women who could go
Decreased by a half by 1936