Life In Nazi Germany, Economy, Workers, Women

Question 1

What did the new plan include

Answer 1

1934

• reducing unemployment
• building up the army
• making Germany self-sufficient (doesn’t need other countries for supplies)

Question 2

How did the Nazis reduce unemployment

Answer 2

• national Labour Service for men ages 18-25, planting forests, paid pocket money than wages
• GERMAN LABOUR FRONT, Build motorways, hospitals, schools, TO CREATE JOBS
• jews sent to camps and women out of work, men got them
• compulsory military service

Question 3

How did Germany try to become self sufficient

Answer 3

• producing raw materials such as coal meant new factories opening
• led to failure, partly because Nazis thought they could just invade countries

Question 4

How did small business improve

Answer 4

-benefited from closure of Jewish shops but big business became extremely powerful

Question 5

How did big business improve

Answer 5

-benefitted from destruction of trade unions, average salary rose by 70% during 1934-38

Question 6

How did farmers lives improve

Answer 6

-debts paid off as food prices increased and they were self sufficient

Question 7

How did industrial workers lives improve

Answer 7

• STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, cheaper prices on theatre and entertainment
• however, workers lost all their trade unions and had to join General Labour Front which meant they couldn’t strike for better conditions

Question 8

How did the lives of unskilled workers improve

Answer 8

-jobs from Labour front

Question 9

Women’s role in society

Answer 9

Kinder- children, increase birth rate for armies
Kirche- church, needed to support husbands
Küche-cooking

Question 10

Nazi policies towards women

Answer 10

• not allowed to smoke or wear trousers
• banned contraception and abortion
• women were given medals on how many children they had (8-gold cross)

Question 11

Why was the German’s women league set

Answer 11

-to teach women to be good mothers