MORE Nazi Germany Flashcards
from 1939-41
Military success- Bitzkreig tactics pushed army forward to Poland in 1939 and Holland , Belgium Luxembourg,denmark, norway and france in 1940
no effect on civillian population
rationing
propaganda to keep spirits up in homefront -saved fuel and people worked harder
from 1942-45
germ defeated in Stalingrad-shock to people
germ large cities bombed- berlin, koln, hamburg, dresden
800000 civillians killed by ally bombing raids
peoples home guard created in 1944 - volkstum
The stresseman era - solutions to strict censorship of kaiser
Weimar constitution allowed free expression of ideas
writers poets and artists flpurished and treid new styles of painting about modern reality, especially in berlin
1920 german cinema, Marlene Dietrich and Fritz Lang
Stresseman - revolutions from left and right
no more attempted revolutions after 1923
parties that supported weimar democracy did well in these years
1928 moderate parties had 136 more seats than radical parties and nazis only had 3% lol
Stresseman - distrust of germany
1925 signed Lorcamo Treaties - guarantees no changein Germanies Westen borders w france and Belgium
1926 allowed into LON
1929 stresseman died - young plan lightened reparations and removed french and belgium troops from rhineland
Stresseman era downfalls (6)
1)6% of working population were unemployed by 1928-peasant farmers were overproducing from the war and didn’t have enough demand to pay mortgages
2)small businesses threatened by large department stores
3)new culture represented moral decline? wandervogel movement and Nazis harnessed this feeling later on
4)30% of votes went to parties opposed to the public
%)Hindenburg elected in 1926 and he opposed democracy
6)Nationalists attacked Stresseman for joining LON
By ___ there were ____ women teachers, ____ women musicians and ____ women doctors and ____ of the Reichstag were women but nazis wanted things to be more traditional and in ___ wanted mothers
1933, 100000, 13000, 3000, 1/10, 1933
all single/married women up to ___ had to have __ children with radically pure german men but the man was allowed to leave and have children with someone else
35,4
Over the age of __ coulnd’t have children and so were discarded
50
Women in employment (4)
Repaced womens jobs with out of work men to increase no of employed men
getting qualifications and professional jobs was banned
banned from jury - unable to think w/o emotion
women banned from any leadership in parties
rules (5)
1) didn’t go to work 15% of teachers, all doctors and civil servants sacked
2) had to be blonde, heavy hipped, athletic, in full shkirt wearing flat heels and no makeup
3) always had to prepare dish using leftovers; once a month on sunday had to prepare 1 dish meal -stew made of cheap meat and leftovers and the SA even came and checked
4) Had to always dress using home made substitutes for cotton and wool
5) stop smoking and bring up kids as loyal nazis
Responsibilities (3)
1) place was in the home, having children and caring for family
2) Germany needed them to increase the birth rates in Germany as in 1900 was 2 mill per year but in 1933 was under 1 mill
3) women had to be beautiful and keep healthy and breed with the right men to create a strong Aryan race
Benefits for women (3)
1)gov offered special loans to new brides who agreed not to take a job
2)had to stop bad habits to make them health which helped them in the long run
3)if they had
4 kids-bronze cross
6-silver
8-gold
Women workers in the war - in ___ men joined army so more women workers needed, abolished ___ and created compulsary ___ for women in labour market
1937,marraige loans,duty year
in ___ fewer women working than in ____ because of
1939, the great depression, poor salary and working conditions
