Government in wartime, 1939-45 - Problems of the growing Reich Flashcards

1
Q

What is Lebensraum?

A

living space
- land taken from other countries to provide G with the farmland + natural resources that the Germans needed
(gained lots going East)

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What was the role of the SS in new Lebensraum?

A

clearing out ‘undesirables’

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What was the role of the Reichsgau?

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11 new Reichsgau had the task of:

  • allocating the Lebensraum to incoming Germans
  • Lebensraum as Part of Germany
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4
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What is the Reichsgau

A

regional governments
- run by Reichstatthalter

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5
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Where was the most heavy-handed of Germanisation programmes in Lebensraum?

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Poland - as army swept through H made it clear that all poles were untrustworthy + to be used for hard labour only + polish leaders to be shot (so not a focus for resistance)

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What did Southern Poland become?

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treated as a colony called the General Government - Hans Frank = governor general
- used as a dumping ground for all Poles + other undesireables, they lived in appaling conditions and used as slave labour

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7
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What happened to the rest of Poland (not south) ?

A

abosbred into the Third Reich + Germanised

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Where in Poland did lots of Germans move to as part of Germanisation + what happened to the Poles that lived there?

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over 1/2 million ethnic Germans moved to the Warthegau area of Western Poland
+
similar number of Poles that originally lived there deported east to make room for them

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9
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What was the problem w G’s growth?

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much more land to govern + centralised gov became harder - meant Gauleiters became increasingly more powerful

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Evidence of Gauleiters becoming more powerful bc of expanding G?

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1942 (start of Br bombing raids) = Gauleiters given control of:
- all civil defence measures incl. firefighting, bomb damage clearance, rehousing, rationing
- and using various Nazi Party Orgs. e.g. NSV welfare org

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11
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When was the decree ‘For the Implementation of Total War Mobilisation’ passed + what was it?

A

August 1944

gave Gauleiters control over the local bureaucracy not just Nazi Party officials + gave them signif powers over local businesses

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