key topic 4•life in nazi germany, 1933-39

Question 1

Kinder, Kirche, Küche

Answer 1

Nazi slogan meaning Children, Church and Cooking

Question 2

Hitler Youth

Answer 2

Organisation set up for boys in Germany to convert them to Nazi ideals

Question 3

League of German Maidens

Answer 3

Youth organisation for girls aged between 14 and 18 to prepare them for motherhood

Question 4

Autobahns

Answer 4

German motorways

Question 5

Beauty of Labour

Answer 5

A department of the KdF that tried to improve working conditions

Question 6

German Labour Front

Answer 6

An organisation of employers and workers which replaced trade unions

Question 7

Invisible unemployment

Answer 7

Unemployed people not included in the official unemployment statistics

Question 8

Rearmament

Answer 8

Building up the German armed forces

Question 9

Reich Labour Service

Answer 9

A scheme to provide young men with manual labour jobs

Question 10

Strength Through Joy

Answer 10

An organisation set up by the German Labour Front to try to improve the leisure time of German workers

Question 11

Emigration

Answer 11

The act of leaving one’s country to settle into another country

Question 12

Ghettos

Answer 12

Densely populated areas of a city inhabited by a particular ethnic group, such as Jews

Question 13

Gypsy

Answer 13

A race of people found across Europe who generally travel across the continent rather than living in one place

Question 14

Kristallnacht

Answer 14

The ‘night of broken glass’. The name given to the a night of violence against Jews due to the amount of shattered glass which littered the streets

Question 15

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 15

Laws passed in 1935 which denied German citizenship to Jewish people

Question 16

Selective breeding

Answer 16

Nazi policy designed to create a master race

Question 17

Slavs

Answer 17

Eastern Europeans including Poles and Russians