Life in Nazi Germany

Question 1

What was the German Labour Front?

Answer 1

• Replaced trade unions (banned)
• Couldn’t dispute pay / working hours
• This led to low pay and long hours
• Organised benefits for workers
• Difficult too find a job if you weren’t a member

Question 2

What was the Beauty of Labour scheme?

Answer 2

A scheme organised by the DAF that improved working conditions by building toilet facilities, canteens, shower rooms, etc.

Question 3

What was the Strength Through Joy scheme?

Answer 3

A scheme organised by the DAF that organised holidays, cheap theatre tickets, etc.
30 million members by 1936
VW Beetle

Question 4

How did the Nazis reduce unemployment?

Answer 4

• National Labour Service (6 months)
• Jobs taken from Jews/women
• Building schools, hospitals, autobahns, etc.
• Aryanisation of Jewish businesses

Question 5

What was the Four-Year-Plan?

Answer 5

• Organised by Goering
• Aimed to make Germany an autarky within 4 years
• To prevent another naval blockade if another war broke out
• Industrialists told what to produce
• However it was unsuccessful in the end and by 1939 Germany still imported 2 thirds of it’s goods needed

Question 6

How much did Hitler reduce unemployment by?

Answer 6

Unemployment fell from six million to half a million

Question 7

Why was rearmament so important to Hitler?

Answer 7

The Treaty of Versailles limited Germany’s army to 100,000 men, no air force, and less battleships. Hitler resented the Treaty and wanted to make Germany a leading military power

Question 8

What did Nazis believe about role of women?

Answer 8

• Children
• Church
• Kitchen

Question 9

Why did Hitler find increasing birth rates so important?

Answer 9

• Wanted an 1000-year Reich
• Ensured he could have lots of future supporters

Question 10

How were women encouraged to have children?

Answer 10

• Propaganda (posters, radio, TV, etc.)
• Medals for having children
• Marriage loans of 1000 marks given to couples, 25% paid off per child born

Question 11

How were women’s rights decreased?

Answer 11

• Wearing makeup, trousers, and high heels was strongly discouraged
• Only allowed to make up for 10% of university places
• Encouraged to stop working
• Not allowed to work in politics, medicine, law, etc.

Question 12

How did Hitler create more jobs?

Answer 12

• Jews sacked and women encouraged to stop working, not included in unemployment registers
• Unemployed men aged 16-25 forced to join RAD for six months
• Building autobahns (80,000)
• Rearmament

Question 13

What were the 4 main benefits of the economic policies?

Answer 13

• Lower unemployment
• Improved infrastructure
• Beauty of Labour/Strength through Joy
• Industrialists exploited their workers (no trade unions) and profitted

Question 14

What was rearmament?

Answer 14

Rebuilding Germany’s military after the Treaty of Versailles reduced it

Question 15

What were the drawbacks of the economic policies?

Answer 15

• Workers unable to dispute low pay and long hours
• Women and Jews couldn’t work, and not included in unemployment registers
• VW Beetle scheme failed
• Four Year Plan failed (still imported a third of goods needed for rearmament)