Hitler Life

Question 1

What were some Nazi aims towards women?

Answer 1

• Fulfil the nurturing role and have a clean home
• Bear the next generation of Aryan race
• Had to be sexually attractive
• Responsible consumers and avoid Jewish shops
• Have no political role as believed it was a ‘Jewish conspiracy’

Question 2

What was meant by ‘Kinder, Kuche, Kirche’?

Answer 2

Children, Kitchen, Church

Meant for women

Question 3

What is the Lebensborn programme?

Answer 3

Provided SS officers women as partners and offered maternity care

Question 4

What were Mother schools?

Answer 4

Women could relearn their natural skills and roles as a mother

Question 5

What Nazi policy helped women with income tax?

Answer 5

For every child they had there was a reduction in income tax, after 6 children they had no income tax

Question 6

What was a marriage loan?

Answer 6

Couple was given a loan of 1,000 Reichmarks after marriage and the loan was paid off by 1/4 every time for every child they had

Question 7

What were Reich Bride schools?

Answer 7

Taught courses in ironing, gardening, childcare etc

Question 8

What was the NSF and what was their opinion on women’s roles?

Answer 8

The Nationalist Socialist Women’s Union, said women should have children and look after the home

Question 9

How did Nazis deal with the shortage of labour from 1937-1939?

Answer 9

Female employment rose from 5.7 million to 7.1 million and increased from 31 to 33% in the workforce. In 1937 Germany introduced a duty year for unmarried women so they could work

Question 10

What did the Nazis do after heavy war casualties in 1943?

Answer 10

Introduced conscription for women aged 17-45

Question 11

How was work affected for women during the war years?

Answer 11

• Increase from 1/3 to 1/2 of women in labour forces
• Increase in work on farms from 55% 1939 to 67% 1944
• 500,000 women bought into work by the Ministry of Munitions

Question 12

How did the war affects female colonisers?

Answer 12

• 200,000 settlers moved into Poland
• By moving German women into Poland it would stop the men getting Polish women pregnant and stopping ‘radically fit’ babies

Question 13

What did the Nazis expect women to do in social/domestic life?

Answer 13

Keep the homes clean and tidy and look after children. Ensure the men had something good to come home to

Question 14

How many women in Germany were sterilised during the war?

Answer 14

400,000

Question 15

How many Germans in 1945 had VD (STI)?

Answer 15

23%

Question 16

Name some ethnic minorities who were effected by Nazi policies

Answer 16

Jews
Poles
Danes
Slavs
Gypsies
Russians
Black/mixed race

Question 17

Name other minorities effected (not ethnic)

Answer 17

Homosexuals
Alcoholics
Prostitutes
Disabled

Question 18

At what point in Nazi Germany did persecution of ethnic minorities slow down?

Answer 18

1936 Olympics

Question 19

What were key turning points in the persecution of minorities?

Answer 19

Nuremberg Race Laws 1935

Kristallnacht 1938

Start of the War 1939

Question 20

Some key statistics about the impact on ethnic minorities

Answer 20

• 6 million Jews killed
• 2.8 million Soviet prisoners of war were killed
• 500,000 gypsies killed
• 400,000 were forcibly sterilised

Question 21

How did Nazi policies affect teachers?

Answer 21

The industry was purged, around 20% of teachers were sacked in 1933. Mostly due to political beliefs but also for being Jewish and being a woman

Question 22

How did female membership of the NSDAP change from 1939-1945?

Answer 22

17% in 1939

35% in 1945

Question 23

How were these affected from 1933-1939?
Marriages
Divorces
Births
Infant mortality

Answer 23

Marriages, divorces and births all increased.

Infant mortality dropped.

Question 24

What was the key change to the curriculum?

Answer 24

To show the advantages of the Aryan Race

Question 25

What is the BDM?

Answer 25

League of German Maidens

Question 26

Information about the Hitler Youth

Answer 26

Ages 6-18
Focused on competition, struggle and leadership through military and physical challenges.
Swore a loyalty oath to Hitler
By 1939 HY had 8.7 million members out of the 8.9 million youths
After March 1939 HY became legally binding from age 10 with parental fines imposed

Question 27

What happened to many of the Hitler Youth?

Answer 27

When they grew older they began to dislike the tasks they were forced to do.
Enthusiasm dropped

Question 28

At what ages were army recruitment ages reduced to during the war and when did this happen?

Answer 28

Ages 16-17 could fight on the frontline from 1944-45

Question 29

What was the ‘Reichkultkurkammer’?

Answer 29

Created by Goebbles in 1933 to control creative arts and promote art deemed acceptable by the Regime.

Question 30

Key features of Nazi culture?

Answer 30

• Used for Propaganda and to create unity
• 1937 Exhibition of Degenerate Art
• Projects like the Olympic Stadium and the rally ground in Nuremberg
• Introduction of Nazi Calendar (national holidays for Hitlers birthday and Munich Putsch)

Question 31

Nazi aims with culture

Answer 31

• Recreate traditional art and culture
• Censorship in anything referencing Weimar
• Promote any radically pure culture
• Promote Hitler views and Nazi ideas

Question 32

Which type of art/statues were preferred and which artists were banned for their work?

Answer 32

Aryan statues and art promoted, abstract art was disapproved and believed it promoted disabled people.
Otto Dix and Paul Klee banned.

Question 33

Name some Leni Riefenstahl films

Answer 33

Triumph of the Will
Olympia
Holy Mountain
Blue Light

Question 34

When was female conscription introduced?

Answer 34

1942

17-45 year old women