Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-39

Question 1

2 policies toward women

Answer 1

Women should not work, especially if married

Women should have at least four children

Question 2

2 points of the Nazis’ ideal women

Answer 2

Fair haired and blue eyes (Aryan)

To marry and have children

Question 3

2 Nazi aims for young people

Answer 3

To be loyal Nazi supporters

Both sexes to be strong and healthy for their roles

Question 4

2 boys youth group activities

Answer 4

Shooting and military drills

Reporting those who made anti-Nazi comments

Question 5

2 points of Nazi control of teachers

Answer 5

Had to be Nazi party members and teach Nazi ideas

Those who didn’t were dismissed

Question 6

2 points of Nazi propaganda within school

Answer 6

All lessons began with a Hitler salute

Anti-Semitism was embedded within every lesson

Question 7

2 aims of the Nazi education policy

Answer 7

To prepare boys into strong soldiers

To prepare women to be good wives and mothers

Question 8

2 points of the RAD

Answer 8

The National Labour Service was compulsory for all men 18-25, from 1935
Pay was low and hours were long and boring may hated)

Question 9

What was Rearmament

Answer 9

The Nazi provided jobs through building their stockpile of arms (even though the ToV opposed this)

Question 10

Unemployment drop from 1933-39

Answer 10

4.8 million to 0.3 million

Question 11

2 points of invisible unemployment

Answer 11

Nazis censored the fact that:
Jews and women were forced out of jobs
Anti-Nazis were sent to concentration camps

Question 12

What was the DAF?

Answer 12

The German Labour Front replaced trade unions - workers had to be members

Question 13

What was Strength through Joy

Answer 13

The KDF (Strength through joy) aimed to increased worker productivity by providing them with low-cost/free activities for hard workers

Question 14

What was the SdA

Answer 14

The SdA (Beauty of Labour) improved workplace conditions by providing canteens, pools and reducing noise. It wasn’t popular as workers had to construct these themselves

Question 15

2 points of the Volkswagen

Answer 15

One KdF scheme was:
Workers paid 5 marks a week towards buying a car
By 1939, no one had paid enough so the money went toward rearmament

Question 16

1 way standard of living improved in 1939

Answer 16

Average wage rose by 20% from 1933

Question 17

2 points of Untermenschen

Answer 17

Untermenschen meant ‘inferior people’, the Nazis used to describe black people, Slavs and the Jews
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws banned Aryand from marrying them

Question 18

What were ‘race farms’?

Answer 18

Places where Aryan men met Aryan women to have Aryan children

Question 19

3 points of ‘other undesirables’

Answer 19

Homosexuals were sent to prison and subjected to medical experiments to correct their ‘disorder’
Mentally handicapped people were sterilised
Mentally and physically handicapped babies were killed

Question 20

3 points of Jeweish businesses

Answer 20

1933 - SA pained yellow star on Jewish shops and discouraged people from going in
1937 - Jewish businesses were overtaken by Aryans
1939 - Jews banned from owing businesses

Question 21

3 points of the Nuremberg Laws

Answer 21

Created in 1935:
Jews cannot vote and must wear a yellow star on clothes
No jew can marry a German citizen
Jews cannot have a German passport not work for the government

Question 22

Timeline of Kristallnacht (the Night of the Broken Glass)

Answer 22

7 November 1938 - 17-year old Jew shot a German in Paris
8 November 1938 - Goebbels used this to attack Jewish homes and synagogues in Hanover
9 November 1938 - Ganga destroy and burn Jewish homes, shops and synagogues

Question 23

2 consequences of Kristallnacht

Answer 23

100 Jews were killed and 171 homes destroyed

Jews were fined 1 billion marks as they were blamed