life in nazi germany: how lives of male workers changed.

Question 1

what groups of workers did the nazis focus on?

Answer 1

small craftsmen/ mittelstand- small business owners.
peasants- men who worked in farming.
industrial workers- men who worked in factories.

Question 2

mittelstand: what law was passed, when to improve the workers lives?

Answer 2

1933. law to protect retail trade.

Question 3

mittelstand: what did the law to protect retail trade do and why?

Answer 3

increase taxes on bigger stores to protect smaller businesses.

Question 4

mittelstand: despite the retail trade law what happens as a negative affect to number of artisans, when and why?

Answer 4

couldn’t compete, fell from 1.6-1.5 million, 1936-1939.

Question 5

agricultural: what was this in line with?

Answer 5

‘blood and soil.’

Question 6

agricultural: when was the reich entailed farm law passed?

Answer 6

may 1933.

Question 7

agricultural: what was the main purpose of the reich entailed farm law?

Answer 7

strengthen germanys small farms.

Question 8

agricultural: what did the reich entailed farm law describe?

Answer 8

forced land owners to pass land to eldest son rather than divide between brothers/ selling it to large scale landowners.

Question 9

agricultural: what were the negative effects of the reich entailed farm law?

Answer 9

tied peasants to land and stifled innovation.
rural population decreased from 21% of total population to 18% of total population.

Question 10

industrial: what was happening to this group?

Answer 10

large and growing.

Question 11

industrial: what percentage of the population was this group?

Answer 11

46%

Question 12

industrial: what was the nazis obsession?

Answer 12

re-armament and preparation for war.

Question 13

industrial: why did employment rates soared?

Answer 13

industrial jobs were plentiful.

Question 14

industrial: in 1936 what was the average wage per week and how was that different to the money received by the poor in 1932?

Answer 14

35.
10 times more than dole money.

Question 15

industrial: what happens to wages in 1933, why and what were the issues surrounding it?

Answer 15

1933 levels, rising prices, not enough to feed family’s.

Question 16

welfare support: what did it cut?

Answer 16

some of the welfare support provided by the weimar government.

Question 17

welfare support: in September 1933 what did they have to support, who did it help and how did they help?

Answer 17

own winter relief collection, help worst off, soup stations.

Question 18

welfare support: why were the donations to the winter relief collection not really donated?

Answer 18

constant pressure from SA.

Question 19

welfare support: how much money was paid per family’s for the winter relief collection?

Answer 19

3%

Question 20

welfare support: what meant that being unemployed didn’t necessarily mean being comfortable?

Answer 20

forced contributions and rising prices.

Question 21

what else is strength through joy can be written as?

Answer 21

KDF.

Question 22

KDF: what be if it’s did workers receive through KDF?

Answer 22

subsidised holidays, cheap theatre tickets, touring orchestras and gym evenings.

Question 23

KDF: how did the KDF help spread nazi ideology and an example?

Answer 23

included content delivered by the party.
eg: passengers on KDF cruises had lectures.

Question 24

KDF: how popular was the KDF?

Answer 24

1937- 1.7 million went on package tours and 7 million took short excursions.

Question 25

beauty of labour: how did the nazis improve workplaces?

Answer 25

new toilets, hanging room and showers built at factories across Germany.

Question 26

beauty of labour: explain why making improvements would be effective t stopping workers calling for trade unions?

Answer 26

role of trade unions were to make work conditions better but if the nazis were doing that they didn’t need out of party agencies to do.

Question 27

reich labour service: how did the reich labour service tackle unemployment?

Answer 27

provided cheap labour for big state projects eg: new motorways.

Question 28

reich labour service: what were the requirements out in place in 1935?

Answer 28

all men aged 18-25 had to serve for 6 months.

Question 29

reich labour service: how did the reich labour service also help hitler achieve his i’m of militarising?

Answer 29

trained long lines of military force and took part in nazi rallies, marching past hitler with shovels on their shoulders as if carrying rifles.

Question 30

volkswagen scheme: how did the volkswagen scheme benefit workers?

Answer 30

workers could pay 5 marks per week and eventually earn a car.

Question 31

volkswagen scheme: why was the volkswagen scheme a failure?

Answer 31

no-one ever received a car, ww2 stopped production.

Question 32

volkswagen scheme: who and when was the scheme created?

Answer 32

1938. DAF.

Question 33

why can’t we rely on nazi figures for understanding their impact on unemployment?

Answer 33

women discounted from figures- 1933.
1935- jews lost german citizenship, removed from figures.
unemployed forced to take any job offre or classed as work shy and sent to prison.
hitler hitler expanded number of people in military- removed from figures.