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KeyTopic4: Life In Nazi Germany 1933-39 Flashcards

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Nazi views on women and the family

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Wanted to increase birth rate and the Third Reich

Women had a central vote in producing the genetically pure aryan race ensuring the future of a strong Nazi state

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Kinder kirche küche

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Nazi slogan meaning children, church and cooking

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Nazi policies towards women employment

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Women were encourage to give up their jobs, get married and have large families. Women doctors, civil servants and teachers were forced to leave their professions
Girls were discouraged from higher education and gaining the qualifications needed for professional careers

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Nazi policies towards women marriage and family

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In 1933 the law for the encouragement of marriage provided loans to help young couples marry as long as the wife left her job
Couples kept 1/4 of the loan for each child born up to 4 children
Maternity benefits were also increased. On hitlers mothers birthday 12th August medals were awarded to women with large families

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What happened on August 12

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Women were awarded medals if they had large families

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Successes of Nazi policies women

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In the first few years the number of married women in employment fell
The number of marriages and birth rate increased
The German women’s enterprise organised mothers schools to train women in household skills it had 6 million members

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Failures of Nazi policies women

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Number of women in employment increased from 4.85 million in 1933 to 7.14 million in 1939
From 1936 there was a labour shortage and more workers were needed
Many employers preferred women workers because they were cheaper
Womens wages were 2/3 of men’s
Some women resented the loss of more professional jobs such as doctors lawyers and school teachers

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What had become a standard text in Nazi education

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Mein kampf

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What did boys mainly learn

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Preparing for the military

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What were all girls taught

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Needlework and cookery

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What did Nazi teachers join

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The Nazi teachers association

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Nazi control of education history

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Rewritten to glorify Germany’s past and the Nazi party

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Nazi control of education pe

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Took 15% of curriculum time to ensure that girls were fit to be mothers and boys were prepared for military training

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Nazi control of education eugenics

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A new subject about selective breeding more especially the creation of a master race
Children were taught that they should not marry so called inferior races such as Jews

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Nazi control of education race studies

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A new subject to put forward Nazi ideas on race in particular the superiority of the aryan race

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Nazi control of education geography

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Pupils were taught about lands which were once part of Germany and the need for more living space for Germans

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Living space

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Lebensraum

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How did the Nazis control the leisure time of the young

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They closed down all youth movements belonging to other political parties and the churches
There were four separate youth organisations for 10-18 year olds

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Who was the youth leader of the Reich

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Baldur Von shirach

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Four youth movements

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Germany young people boys 10-13
Young girls for girls 10-14
Hitler youth boys 14-18
League of German maidens girls 14-18

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Hitler youth

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

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League of German maidens

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

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When did membership for youth groups become compulsory

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1936

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Boys focus in youth group

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Military training
Sport
Hiking
Camping

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Girls focus in youth groups

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Motherhood through domestic skills
Physical fitness
Make beds
Cook

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Successes of Nazi policies youth groups

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Membership of the hitler youth expanded from 5.4 million in 1936 to 7 million in 1939
Many young people enjoyed the exciting and interesting activités such as camping
Others enjoyed the great sense of comradeship and belonging to something that seemed powerful

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Failures of Nazi policies youth group

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3 million youngsters hadn’t joined the hitler youth by the end of 1938
Some members found the activities boring especially military drilling

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Nazi policies to reduce unemployment job creation schemes

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1933 18.4 billion marks were spent on job creation schemes rising to 37.1 million by 1938
Massive road building to create autobahns which improved German industry as it was easier to cross the country

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Autobahns

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German motorways

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Beauty of labour

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A department of the KdF that tried to improve working conditions

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German labour front

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An organisation of employers and workers which replaced trade unions

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Invisible unemployment

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Unemployed people not included in the official unemployment statistics

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Rearmament

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Building up the German armed forces

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Reich labour services

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A scheme to provide young men with manual labour jobs

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Strength through joy

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An organisation set up by the German labour front to try to improve the leisure time of German workers

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Nazi policies to reduce unemployment the reich labour service (RAD)

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Provided young men with manual labour jobs
From 1935 it was compulsory for men ages 18-25 to serve for 6 months
Workers lived in camps, wore uniforms, received very low pay and carried out military drill as well as work

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Nazi policies to reduce unemployment invisible unemployment

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Jews dismissed from their jobs from 1933
Women doctors, civil servants and teachers dismissed from their jobs
Women who had given up work to get married
Unmarried men under 25 who were pushed into RAD schemes
Opponents of the regime held in concentration camps

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Nazi policies to reduce unemployment rearmament

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Especially after 1936 created more jobs
More money spent on manufacturing weapons by 1939 26 billion marks were spent on rearmament
From 1935 all men aged 18-35 had to do 2 years military service the army expanded from 100,000 in 1933 to 1,400,000 by 1939

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Changes in standard of living better off

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More or less full employment
Strength through joy KdF tried to improve the leisure and cultural trips these included concerts theatre visits supporting events weekend trips holidays and cruises
Beauty of labour tried to improve working conditions, it organised the building of canteens swimming pools and sports facilities. It installed better workplace lighting and improved noise levels

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Changes in standard of living worse off

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Lack of freedom
German workers lost their rights under the Nazis
Strikes were banned
Labour front didn’t permit workers to negotiate for better pay or reduced hours of work
Volkswagen swindle this idea to encourage people to put aside money every week to buy a Volkswagen was a con trick
By 1939 not a single customer had taken delivery of a car
None of the money was refunded
Invisible unemployment

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Nazi racial belief and policies

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Central to the Nazis policy was the aim to create a pure aryan racial state they thought this could be achieved by selective breeding and destroying the Jews
Jews and Slavs were seen as inferior or subhumans

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Treatment of people with disabilities

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1933 stérilisation law allowed the stérilisation of those suffering from physical deformity, mental illness, epilepsy, learning disabilities, blindness and deafness

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What were Germans with disabilities seen as

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A burden on the community

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Treatment of homosexuals

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Homosexuality remained illegal. Nazi views about the importance of family life meant that same sex relationships couldn’t be tolerated. Gay men were arrested and sent to concentration camps

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Treatment of gypsies

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Nazis wanted to remove Germany’s 30,000 gypsies because they were non-aryan and threatened racial purity. In 1935 the Nazis banned all marriages between gypsies and Germans

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Emigration

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The act of leaving ones country to settle in another country

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Ghettos

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

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Gypsy

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

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Nuremberg laws 1935

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Reich citizenship law stated that only those of German blood could be German citizens. Jews lost their citizenship and the right to vote and hold government office
The law for the protection of German blood and honour for blade marriage or sexual relations between Jews and German citizens

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Nuremberg laws

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Laws passed in 1935 which denied German citizenship to Jewish people

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Kristallnacht

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The night of the broken glass

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

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Selective breeding

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Nazi policy designed to create a master race

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Slavs

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Eastern European’s including poles and Russians on

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Kristallnacht and after

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On 8 November 1938 goebbles organised anti Jewish demonstrations which involved attacks on Jewish property, shops homes and synagogues. 9th November was kristallnacht
In January 1939 the SS was given the responsibility for eliminating Jews from Germany this was achieved by forced emigration 30th April Jews were forced into ghettos
Summer 1939 about 250,000 Jews had left Germany

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