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1
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… G.s fought in war

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11 million

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… G. soldiers died & … wounded - … of G. soldiers became casualties

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almost 2 million
over 4 million
over 55%

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cost of war trebled G. gov.’s debt from … to … by 1918

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50bn marks
150bn marks

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… G.s died because of food shortages

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over 750,000

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national election Jan 1919 … G. people voted & moderate parties won most seats: SPD won … & Centre Party won …

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over 80%
40%
20%

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6
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after … National Assembly announced new Weimar Constitution = finished

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6 months

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Article … of constitution confirmed that G. was to be democracy

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1

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8
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(W. Constitution) voting age reduced from … to …

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25
21

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9
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(W. Constitution) Reichstag elected by public every … : roughly 1 deputy per … people

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4 years
60,000

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10
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(W. Constitution) President elected every

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7 years

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11
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… different parties in 1920s

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29

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12
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… diff. coalition gov.s 1919-23

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9

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13
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Article … provided president with ‘Emergency Powers’ in times of national emergency

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48

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14
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(ToV) Army reduced to … men

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100,000

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15
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(ToV) Navy reduced to … battleships

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6

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16
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(ToV) G. ordered to pay … to Allies

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£6.6bn

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17
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(ToV) G. to provide France with coal (from Saar coalfields) for

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15 years

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18
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(ToV) Article … stated G. caused war & responsible for devastation caused = ‘war guilt’ clause

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231

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19
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6th Jan 1919 … workers took to streets & soon had control of Berlin

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over 100,000

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20
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by Jan 1919 … Freikorps units in G.

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~200

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21
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Mar 1919 further Communist uprising in Berlin = put down by … Freikorps - … rebels killed & … ‘suspected Communists’ rounded-up & executed by Freikorps

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30,000
over 1,000
800

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(Kapp Putsch) … armed Freikorps marched on Berlin with intention of overthrowing gov.

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over 5,000

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(Kapp Putsch) … workers went on strike

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1000s

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24
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after … Kapp realised didn’t have support of people of Berlin so couldn’t govern

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4 days

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25
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first coalition gov. had … of seats so relatively stable

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77%

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26
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after elections 1920 SPD lost … of seats & main ‘moderate’ parties now only had … of Reichstag seats - extremist parties (openly wanted to overthrow democracy) now had … of seats between them

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over 1/3
45%
20%

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27
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1919-22 … political assassinations - not single right-wing assassin convicted & executed but … left-wing assassins executed

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376
10

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28
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ToV deprived G. of … of iron & … of coal reserves

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50%
15%

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29
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Ruhr contained … G. coal, iron & steel reserves

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~80%

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30
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by 1923 gov. had … paper mills & … printing shops dedicated to printing banknotes

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300
2,000

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31
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1919 loaf of bread = … , 1923 loaf of bread = …

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1 mark
200,000bn marks

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32
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(Dawes Plan) reparations temporarily halved to … per year & US banks provide G. with loans of … to help industry recover

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£50 million
$25bn

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33
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(Young Plan) total reparations payments reduced from … to … & G. given extra … to pay total debt

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£6.6bn
£2bn
59 years

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34
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vote in 1929 resulted in … G.s (…) voting in favour of Young Plan

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35 million
85%

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35
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1924 … total workforce unemp. -> 1926 unemp. fell to … & by 1928 …

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over 4%
2 million
1.3 million

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36
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real wages increased by … 1925-28

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25%

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37
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1927 shortened length working week from … to …

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50 hours
46 hours

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38
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Kellogg-Briand Pact signed by G. & … other countries

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61

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39
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1927 Unemployment Insurance Act introduced unemp. insurance for … workers -> workers paid … of wages & in return provided with … per week if sick/couldn’t find work

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over 16 million
3%
60 marks

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40
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by 1923 shortage of … homes in G. -> 1925 gov. introduced new … ‘rent tax’

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1 million
15%

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41
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1925-29 new building associations built … homes

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over 64,000

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42
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(Golden Years?) in total … homes built, … renovated & homelessness reduced by …

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over 2 million
200,000
more than 60%

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43
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Reich Pension Law (1920) provided pensions to … war veterans, … war widows & … parents of dead servicemen

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750,000
400,000
200,000

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44
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in Weimar elections turnout of female voters consistently

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over 90%

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45
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by 1926 … women had been elected to Reichstag & … members female

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32
almost 10%

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46
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(W. constitution) Article … gave women equal rights with men, equality within marriage & protection from discrim. in workplace

A

109

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47
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by 1929 agricultural production only at … pre-war levels

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79%

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48
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German National Party (DNVP) still … largest party in Reichstag by 1928 with … seats

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2nd
73

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49
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although Communists (KPD) lost support in 1920s still … largest party in Reichstag by 1928 with … seats

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4th
54

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50
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in 1929 … middle-class workers seeking work

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180,000

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51
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1919-20 H. = main speaker at … out of … party meetings

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31
46

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52
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NSDAP only … members in Sep 1919, by Sep 1920 … members

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23
3,000

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53
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SA numbered … by Aug 1922 & by Nov 1923 this had risen to …

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~800
55,000

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54
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by 1923 NSDAP had … members

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over 50,000

55
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(Munich Putsch) H. & … supporters marched to centre of Munich & within moments .. of supporters shot dead

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1,000
14

56
Q

(Munich Putsch) H. & other leaders found guilty of treason & sentenced to … in Landsberg prison > H. released after only …

A

5 years
9 months

57
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in 1929 G. industrial output fell by … , in 1931 fell by …

A

10%
40%

58
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Jan 1933 … unemp. in G. > included … all factory workers & … university graduates

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6.1 million
40%
60%

59
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(WSC) estimated … unemp. received no benefit at all

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27%

60
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by 1932 wages = … of 1928 levels

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70%

61
Q

(WSC) increase of … in arrests for theft in Berlin

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24%

62
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(WSC) whereas Reichstag met … times in 1930 only … times in 1932

A

94
13

63
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had been only … presidential decrees in 1930, by 1932 Bruning had issued …

A

5
66

64
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by July 1932 NSDAP had become largest party in Reichstag with … seats

A

230

65
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whereas … voters supported KPD in 1928 Reichstag elections … voters supported in 1932 (extra … voters) > KPD gained … seats in July Reichstag elections

A

10%
15%
million
89

66
Q

by 1932 Red Front Fighters (KPD) numbered … however SA numbered …

A

over 130,000
well over 400,000

67
Q

by early 1930s NSDAP owned … daily or weekly newspapers > regularly read by … people

A

120
hundreds of thousands

68
Q

1930 elections NSDAP gained … vote in some rural areas

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60%

69
Q

general elections of 1930 Nazi Party won … seats in Reichstag, only small proportion of … seats available with … of votes

A

107
577
18%

70
Q

presidential election Apr 1932 Hindenburg = …

A

84

71
Q

presidential election Apr 1932 Hindenburg = … votes (…)
H. = … votes (…)
Thalmann (KPD) = … votes (…)

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19 million, 53%
13 million, 36%
4 million, 11%

72
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July 1932 Reichstag elections violence in streets (particularly communists & SA) killed … people > NSDAP won … seats, Nazi share of vote had risen from … in 1930 to … in 1932

A

~100
230
18%
38%

73
Q

night of Reichstag Fire H. ordered arrest of … communists

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4,000

74
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Mar 1933 election Nazis increased Reichstag members to … seats > H. used emergency powers to ban Comm. Party taking its … seats > entered coalition with DNVP to have overall majority …

A

288
81
51%

75
Q

Enabling Act (Mar 1933) passed … votes to …

A

444
94

76
Q

Nov 1933 elections … of pop. voted for NSDAP & they won … votes

A

95.2%
over 39 million

77
Q

(Night of Long Knives) SA numbers = … & by 1930 … of SA unemp.

A

3 million
60%

78
Q

(Night of Long Knives) H. arranged meeting with Rohm & … other SA leaders

A

100

79
Q

public vote in Aug 1934 to confirm H. as Fuhrer = … voted in favour

A

90%

80
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SS set up in 1925 as personal bodyguard for H. with … members

A

240

81
Q

during 1930s SS expanded to … men

A

240,000

82
Q

1939 alone … arrested for political offences

A

160,000

83
Q

never more than … Gestapo in pop. of …

A

30,000
80 million

84
Q

… all (Gestapo) arrests made following info. from informant

A

over 80%

85
Q

by 1939 … people ‘under protective arrest’ in prisons

A

150,000

86
Q

1934-39 … people sentenced to death for political offences

A

534

87
Q

1935 alone … newspapers = shut down

A

over 1,600

88
Q

by 1944 Prop. Ministry fully owned … of all media being published in G.

A

82%

89
Q

by 1939 … of G. homes owned radio

A

70%

90
Q

1934 Nuremburg rally involved … people

A

over 700,000

91
Q

(Chamber of Culture) in total … writers = officially banned

A

2,500

92
Q

1933 Goebbels organised ‘Book Burning’ > … books burned in one night alone

A

over 20,000

93
Q

Chamber of Visual Arts = only … painters & sculptors accepted

A

42,000

94
Q

1936 … paintings & sculptures = removed from galleries by SS

A

over 12,000

95
Q

cinema regularly attracted … viewers a week

A

over 250 million

96
Q

… films made by NSDAP

A

1,300

97
Q

(Berlin Olympics 1936) new Olympic Stadium built to hold … people

A

110,000

98
Q

SS = by 1939 … members

A

over 250,000

99
Q

after assassination of Cologne Gestapo Chief … young people hanged in Nov 1944

A

13

100
Q

… Protestant pastors & … Catholic priests sent to conc. camps

A

800
400

101
Q

in 1939 … people imprisoned (in conc. camps?)

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~160,000

102
Q

by 1939 Edelweiss Pirate membership = … compared to Hitler Youth membership of …

A

~2,000
8 million

103
Q

(Kristallnacht) official figures (which underestimate) listed … shops, … homes & … synagogues destroyed

A

814
171
191

104
Q

(Kristallnacht) … Jews killed & after violence of Kristallnacht … Jewish ‘trouble-makers’ rounded up & sent to conc. camps

A

over 100
20,000

105
Q

by 1938 … homosexuals had been imprisoned & … died in conc. camps

A

8,000
~5,000

106
Q

(T4 programme) … children killed

A

over 5,000

107
Q

by 1938 … boys being trained in small arms shooting

A

1.2 million

108
Q

… teachers attended political education courses by 1939

A

200,000

109
Q

G. Women’s Enterprise eventually had … members

A

6 million

110
Q

by 1939 … women had attended courses on childcare, cooking & sewing

A

1.7 million

111
Q

birth rate in G. had fallen to only … births per year by 1933

A

1 million

112
Q

Law for the Encouragement of Marriage made ‘marriage loans’ of … available to women who gave up work to marry > … of loan cancelled for every child

A

1000 marks
1/4

113
Q

by end of 1934 … women had given up work to get married

A

~360,000

114
Q

Mother’s Cross (num children) gold = …
silver = …
bronze = …

A

8
6
4

115
Q

overall birth rate increased from … births per 1000 marriages in 1933 to … in 1937

A

14.7
19.6

116
Q

… women gave birth in Lebensborn houses 1938-41

A

540

117
Q

during election campaign in 1932 H. promised he would take … women out of employment within …

A

800,000
4 years

118
Q

Law for the Reduction of Unemployment prevented women from working past age of …

A

35

119
Q

num. female students entering higher education fell from … in 1932 to … in 1939

A

17,000
6,000

120
Q

Sep 1933 Nazis launched ‘autobahn’ project to build … network of dual-carriageway roads

A

7,000 mile

121
Q

by 1935 autobahn project employed … men & by 1938 had built …

A

125,000
over 2,000 miles

122
Q

by 1939 … men in G. armed forces

A

over 1.3 million

123
Q

by 1939 gov. spent … a year on rearmament

A

26bn marks

124
Q

by 1935 num. people employed in aviation had grown to …

A

72,000

125
Q

in 1938 Nazis spent … on public works

A

37bn marks

126
Q

by 1936 KDF had … members & in 1938 … workers took KDF holidays

A

over 35 million
10 million

127
Q

by 1938 SDA claimed … companies had improved facilities

A

34,000

128
Q

… people employed in RAD by 1935

A

~400,000

129
Q

from 1935 compulsory for all young men below age of … to serve for … in RAD

A

25
6 months

130
Q

avg. wages increased from … per week in 1933 to … in 1939

A

86 marks
109 marks

131
Q

avg. working hours in industry increased from … hours per week in 1933 to … hours in 1939

A

42
49

132
Q

(1933-39) food prices rose by …

A

20%

133
Q

unemp. men forced to join RAD

A

~1/2 million

134
Q

people put into conc. camps

A

100s of 1000s

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