Impact of WWII in Germany

Question 1

when did Germany start rationing

Answer 1

27th of august 1939

Question 2

what was the average german diet

Answer 2

Bread and potato

Question 3

What year did the RAF start to area bomb ( bombing civilian areas instead of industrial areas )

Answer 3

1942

Question 4

Name 2 statistics of area bombing in Germany e.g how many people were killed.

Answer 4

61 cities were attacked
25 million people were attacked
7.5 million made homeless
300,000 - 400,000 were killed

Question 5

what caused people to become refugees in the Ruhr

Answer 5

area bombing caused people to be homeless and become refugees.

Question 6

why did people travel eastwards from the german boarder

Answer 6

because they didn’t want to be in the midst of of a battle between the germans and french

Question 7

how many men were in the german army

Answer 7

13.7 million

Question 8

who did the germans employ due to labour shortages

Answer 8

women

Question 9

how did war effect the young people in Germany

Answer 9

Edelweiss pirates, white rose, jazz music

Question 10

who were the edelweiss pirates, name 2 facts

Answer 10

they were working class boys, attacked members of hitler youth, in 1942 700 were arrested and 12 publicly hanged.

Question 11

who formed the white rose

Answer 11

the anti-nazi group was formed by brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl ( founded in Munich University)

Question 12

what was the punishment for the leaders of the white roses?

Answer 12

guillotine

Question 13

who were the swing movement

Answer 13

A group of youths who listened to Jazz Music and drank alcohol.

Question 14

How did the war affect the Jews and other persecuted minorities?

Answer 14

There was an increase in jewish persecution

Question 15

How many European Jews were exterminated.

Answer 15

Six Million ( total )
Three Million ( in Germany )

Question 16

What happened in phase one of the final solution

Answer 16

As Germany took over Poland they confined 3 million polish Jews to disease infested ghettos and concentration camps where many starved, received punishments and died.

Question 17

What led to the second solution

Answer 17

Hitler gave the order to exterminate the 11 million jews in Europe and this led onto the second phase.

Question 18

What happened in the second solution

Answer 18

mass killings: a special SS unit was called the Einsatzgruppen and which followed behind the german army when they invaded Russia and executed any jew that were in the Russian army.

Question 19

what was the disadvantage of the second solution that led onto the third and final solution.

Answer 19

despite killing over 500,000 jews The second solution was very expensive and time costly

Question 20

The final solution

Answer 20

Reinhard Heydrich made an agreement that jews that were fit enough would move to Poland and work to death while the rest would be executed in extermination camps.

Question 21

the out come of the final solution

Answer 21

Six Million jews were murdered

88% of polish jews were killed

Question 22

Where was there likely to be an increase in opposition during WW2

Answer 22

from the army and the churches.

Question 23

What was the first effort of removing hitler from leadership from within the army.

Answer 23

The first effort was in October 1939 by Admiral Canaris

Hitler ordered the invasion of France but fearing that it would be suicide he got together and convinced the men to get hitler out of power but however, when a harsh winter postponed the plan, support for the idea dissolved.

Question 24

What was the second effort to remove hitler from leadership from within the army.

Answer 24

In July 1944, a group of army officers tried to assassinate Hitler. A bomb was planted by Colonel Stauffenberg at a meeting attended by the Fuhrer. It exploded, but Hitler survived!