nazi economic, social, racial policy

Question 1

What was the 4 Year Plan?

Answer 1

Make Germany ready for war in 4 years, prioritising rearmament and autarky

Question 2

What were the 3 Ks?

Answer 2

Kinder, Kuche, Kirche (Children, Kitchen, Church)
-Nazi idea of the ideal woman’s role.

Question 3

what is indoctrination

Answer 3

to accept a system of thought without question.

Question 4

what does it mean to be protestant and catholic

Answer 4

christian church were and werent controlled by the pope

Question 5

What was the Nazi view on jews

Answer 5

Anti-Semitic: Jews were a threat to German purity. (hatred of jews)

Question 6

How did Hitler indoctrinate young people?

Answer 6

Compulsory education in Nazi-approved schools (e.g teachers been to nazi teachers league, lessons used to promote nazi ideas and textbooks rewritten to reflect nazi view)
Hitler Youth movement (1936): Membership compulsory from 1939.
Focused on physical exercise, military training, and promoting Nazi ideology.

Question 7

What was the purpose of the Hitler Youth?

Answer 7

Prepare boys to become future soldiers - pe, rifle practice etc
* Prepare girls for motherhood
* Indoctrination into Nazi ideology.

Question 8

What was the League of German Maidens?

Answer 8

Organization for girls aged 14-18.
Focused on physical exercise like hoola hooping and domestic skills like cooking and sewing and Nazi ideology.

Question 9

How did Hitler view Christianity?

Answer 9

Hitler saw Christianity as a threat and potential opposition to the nazis as it emphasised peace so tried to control the church

Question 10

what 2 laws did hitler use to try and control the church

Answer 10

1935 ministry of church affairs to weaken the hold between the ppl and church
1930s German faith movement was encouraged by nazis to replace christian values with pagan ideas

Question 11

when and what was the Reichskonkordat/concordat

Answer 11

1933 It was an agreement between Hitler and the Pope where hitler wouldnt interfere in running of Catholic Church if they agreed to stay out of political matters. Hitler broke the agreement by persecuting clergy.

Question 12

What happened to Protestant churches under Nazi rule and what happened to the opposing

Answer 12

Nazis replaced some Protestant churches with the pro-Nazi Reich Church. ppl who opposed eg paster neimoller were sent to concentration camps.

Question 13

when and what happened in the end between hitler and the church

Answer 13

1937 hitler forced to return control of church and they stayed out of politics

Question 14

what did women gain during the weimar period

Answer 14

Women had equal voting rights, entered professional careers, and gained independence.

Question 15

What was the Nazi ideology about women?

Answer 15

Nazis believed women should focus on the “3 K’s” (Kinder, Küche, Kirche - Children, Kitchen, Church), give up jobs and start families

Question 16

why did hitler want women to start families so much

Answer 16

to secure the future of the aryan race

Question 17

when and what was the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage

Answer 17

1933 where couples received loans of 1,000 marks if they married and agreed to have children. They didn’t have to repay part of the loan for each child born e.g 1 child = 250, 4 children = 1000

Question 18

What was the Mothers’ Cross awa

Answer 18

Mothers were awarded medals based on the number of children they had: bronze for 4, silver for 6, and gold for 8+ children.
mothers cross award

Question 19

when and what was the Lebensborn program?

Answer 19

1935 It encouraged unmarried Aryan women to “devote a baby to the fuhrer” by have children with racially “pure” SS men to increase the Aryan population

Question 20

How did female labor change between 1933 and 1939?

Answer 20

As the German economy grew, more women were needed in the workplace. Female labor rose by 2.4 million.

Question 21

What was Hitler’s belief about Aryans?

Answer 21

Hitler believed Aryans were the “master race” and thought certain groups were inferior therefore wanting to protect the aryan race

Question 22

what groups of people did hitler sterilise

Answer 22

sterilised Jews, mentally ill, physically disabled, blacks, gypsies, and homosexuals

Question 23

who did hitler blame for germanys recent problems

Answer 23

jews

Question 24

when and what happened in the Jewish boycott?

Answer 24

1933 Nazis encouraged Germans to boycott Jewish shops and businesses and pressured Jewish people to leave jobs like teaching, law, and medicine.

Question 25

when and what were the Nuremberg Laws

Answer 25

1935 These laws stripped Jews of citizenship and banned marriage/relationships between Jews and Aryans.

Question 26

when and what was Kristallnacht

Answer 26

1938 organised attacked jewish property:
250 synagogues destroyed
7,500 Jewish shops damaged
100 Jews killed
30,000 arrested
Jews were also fined 1 billion reichmarks for damages.

Question 27

What was the National Labour Service Corps (RAD)?

Answer 27

The RAD made it compulsory for men aged 18–25 to work for six months in public work schemes like building motorways.

Question 28

How did Nazis replace trade unions?

Answer 28

replaced by the German Labour Front (DAF), which disciplined people and regulate pay and working hours.

Question 29

What was the Strength Through Joy program?

Answer 29

Aimed to reward hardworking Germans for working by subsidizing leisure activities and cultural events.

Question 30

What was the Beauty of Work organization?

Answer 30

It aimed to improve working conditions, such as building canteens and sports facilities.

Question 31

What was the Volkswagen scheme?

Answer 31

It allowed workers to save money to buy an affordable car, although many never received one.

Question 32

How much did Hitler reduce unemployment from 6 million and what year

Answer 32

Unemployment dropped from 6 million to less than 0.5 million by 1939.

Question 33

What is “invisible unemployment”?

Answer 33

Nazi unemployment figures excluded groups like Jews and women, making statistics misleading.

Question 34

what were the nazis policies towards religeon

Answer 34

1935 Ministry of church affairs
1935 German faith movement
tried to get them to replace all christian ideas for pagan ones
some protestants established a pro-nazi reich church

Question 35

nazi policies towards jews and minorities

Answer 35

aryan was ‘masterrace’
blamed jews for germanys problems
1935 nuremburg laws
1939 boycott of jews and banned from important jobs
1938 kristallnacht

Question 36

3 ways hitler encouraged women to have children and whrn

Answer 36

1933 law of encouragement and marriage
motherhood cross medal
lebensborn programme

Question 37

ways germany rebuilt the economy and rate of unemployement

Answer 37

1933 DAF
1935 RAD
4 years plan
strength through joy KDF
beauty of work organisation
1938 volkswagon
6mill to less than 50,000 BUT invisible employment

Question 38

nazi policies to young people

Answer 38

indoctrinated them to hopefully “third reich”
1) control of education by nazi approved schools (nazi teachers league, lessons, textbooks changed)
2) hitler youth movement by compulsary membership 1939