Nazi Germany

Question 1

Give 2 Nazi policies towards women

Answer 1

• Women should have at least 4 kids - let off a quarter of their Marriage Loan repayments per kid - birth rate increased -economy improved
• German Womens Enterprise gave women medals for having kids - 6 million members

Question 1

Give 3 things German women were expected to be

Answer 1

• Aryan
• Non-smoker/drinker
• To stay at home and not work

Question 2

What were the 4 Nazi youth groups

Answer 2

• Young German Folk (boys 10-14)
• Young Girls (girls 10-14)
• Hitler Youth (boys 14-18)
• German Maidens (girls 14-18)

Question 3

How did Nazis want children to think

Answer 3

• Be proud Germans
• Loyal supporters of Nazi Party
• Boys and girls to be strong and healthy (boys fight, women mothers)

Question 4

What activities did groups do?

Answer 4

Boys - Shooting, military drills, signalling
Girls - Cookery, housework, needlework
Both - Hiking, camping, learning about Hitler

Question 5

How did Nazis control education

Answer 5

Schools - Children attend til 14, girls and boys schools
Teachers - Teachers had to be Nazis, teachers had to attend courses to learn Nazi ideas
Subjects - Girls taught domestic skills, boys science and military
Propaganda - All lessons ended with Nazi salute, Nazi flags in classes

Question 6

Why did Hitler want workers

Answer 6

• Unemployed were dangerous politically, could revolt or join new party
• Believed by Nazis to be waste on society

Question 7

How did Hitler increase employement

Answer 7

• Putting money into large projects ( built 7000km motorways connecting country, sport facilities for Olympics)
• Rearmament - Built up stockpile of arms - provided many jobs

Question 8

What did official figures say about unemployment decrease

Answer 8

4.8 - 0.3 from 1933-39, but didn’t take into account invisible unemployment

Question 9

What were Race Farms

Answer 9

Where aryan women and men met to create families

Question 10

What does untermenschen mean

Answer 10

Inferior people - described Jews, Slavs, gypsies
1935 - Nuremberg Laws banned Aryans marrying them

Question 11

What happened for gypsies in 1933

Answer 11

Arrested, sent to concentration camps

Question 12

Who else did the Nazis segregate?

Answer 12

Homosexuals, disabled

Question 13

Why were Jews persecuted

Answer 13

• Scapegoat for German problems
• Associated with communism (Karl Marx)
• Success jealousy

Question 14

What were the Nuremberg Laws of 1935?

Answer 14

• Passed to make it easier to persecute Jews
• Only those of German blood are citizens
• Jews must wear yellow star shaped patch to identify
• No jew can marry German citizens/have sexual relations

Question 15

When the Night of Broken Glass

Answer 15

1938

Question 16

How did Kristallnacht happen

Answer 16

7th Nov - Polish Jew shot German
8th Nov - Goebbels stirred hatred against Jews by attacking Jews their homes and synagogues
9th Nov - Hitler and Goebbels increase violence to nationwide attack, gangs destroyed Jewish businesses, homes, synagogues, shops - 100 Jews killed, 814 shops destroyed, 171 homes destroyed