Key Question 3: Life under the Nazis

Question 1

What did Nazi propaganda promote?

Answer 1

The Aryan race, Fuhrer Cult and German greatness.

Question 2

Who was Joseph Goebbels?

Answer 2

The Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda?

Question 3

When was Goebbels appointed minister?

Answer 3

1933

Question 4

By what mediums did the Nazi party spread their ideals?

Answer 4

Posters, Newspapers, Films, Rallies and Radio

Question 5

What is a key example of Nazi influence in newspapers?

Answer 5

Der Sturmer- warning Germans of the Jewish kidnapping children

Question 6

What is a key example of Nazi influence in film?

Answer 6

The ‘Triumph of the Will’- 1934

Question 7

Name a famous rally.

Answer 7

Nuremberg Rally- 1934

Question 8

Other than propoganda- how else did the Nazi’s influence germans?

Answer 8

Use of Censorship

Question 9

By what methods did the Nazi party enact censorship?

Answer 9

Book Burning (religious and political texts and text books), Desecration of Art, Burning Newspapers and Magazines and Banning of Jazz and associated dancing.

Question 10

How many books were burnt in 1933?

Answer 10

20, 000 books burnt of Jewish and Communist links

Question 11

How many newspapers/magasins were burnt in 1938?

Answer 11

10, 000

Question 12

How many text books were burnt bu 1938?

Answer 12

2, 500

Question 13

When Hitler came to power how many people were unemployed?

Answer 13

6 Million people unemplyed

Question 14

How many people were unemployed by 1939?

Answer 14

302, 000

Question 15

What was invisible unemployment?

Answer 15

The hiding of unemployment by not counting groups in statistics.

Question 16

When did Jews lose their citizenship and what sis this mean?

Answer 16

Lost citizenship in 1935 and no longer counted in unemployment statistics.

Question 17

How did women reduce unemployment?

Answer 17

Women were no longer counted in statistics?

Question 18

How did the Nazi’s incentivise emplyment?

Answer 18

Threat of going to a concentration camp if one didn’t work, gifts of Holiday camps, theatre trips and cars?

Question 19

How did the Nazi’s creat jobs?

Answer 19

Greater number of factories making weapons, National Labour Service (RAD) would build roads or plant forests.

Question 20

How did the Nazi’s keep people in employment?

Answer 20

Use of the German Labour front meant that one could not be sacked but also could not resign without government permission.

Question 21

What could women do before the Nazi’s gained power?

Answer 21

Women could vote, female Reichstag members, have good careers, drink or smoke and go out on their own.

Question 22

When was the Law for Encouragement of Marriage?

Answer 22

1933

Question 23

What was the Law for Encouragement of Marriage?

Answer 23

Divorce was legal if you were infertile. Lebensborn scheme- women could have children with SS men ‘Donate a baby to the Fuhrer’.

Question 24

How were women rewarded in families?

Answer 24

Medals awarded to women who had particularly large families on Hitler’s mothers birthday.

Question 25

How were women discouraged from working?

Answer 25

3k’s ideology- Kinder (Children), Kuche (Kitchen), Kirche (Church). This would open jobs to men.

Question 26

How were women meant to look/ appear?

Answer 26

One should be clean and healthy. Not wear makeup, trousers of high heels, couldn’t style or die their hair and certainly they couldn’t diet.

Question 27

What did all teachers have to do?

Answer 27

Swear an oath to the Fuhrer

Question 28

How did Nazi ideology enter the classroom?

Answer 28

Textbooks rewritten- Mein Kampf a core text,
Lessons start with a salute to Hitler,
Teachings that Germany was surrounded by hostile countries and communism was evil.

Question 29

How was the curriculum changed by the Nazi Party?

Answer 29

15% of the curriculum was P.E. Boys were taught military skills while girls were taught of home making and mothering. Taught to not marry Jews.

Question 30

How did the Nazi’s influence the youth outsiude of school?

Answer 30

Hitler Youth and the League of Young Maidens

Question 31

What was the Hitler Youth?

Answer 31

14-18 year olds compulsory group focused on Nazi ideas, athletics, hiking, camping and military skills. General training so that they could be part of Hitler’s army later in life.

Question 32

What was the League of Young Maidens?

Answer 32

4-18 year olds compulsory group focused on motherly, marriage and domestic skills.

Question 33

What was the SA boycott?

Answer 33

!933- boycott of Jewish businesses. A new law excluded Jews from government. Jewish texts burnt.

Question 34

What were The Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 34

1935- a series of laws against jews. Lost citizenship, right to vote and sex or marriage to Germans was illegal.

Question 35

When were Jewish identity cards introduced?

Answer 35

1938- with their printed middle names

Question 36

What was Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?

Answer 36

Setting fire to of synagogues, Jewish shops destroyed. 98 Jews killed and 20, 000 sent to concentration camps. Beginning of the Holocaust.

Question 37

What caused Kristallnacht?

Answer 37

The Killing of a German official in Paris by a Polish Jew.