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Who organised Germany’s finances to pay for work creation programmes?

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Dr Hjalmar Schacht

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What projects did the national labour service send men to work in?

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Building motor ways
Railway extensions
House building

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What was introduced in 1935?

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Conscription

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What was made in 1936?

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The four year plan

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Hitler wanted Germany to be self-sufficient, what did this mean?

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They would have enough goods and food to support themselves through war

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The German army’s need for weapons, equipment and uniforms would create jobs in what three industries?

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Coal mines
Steel industry
Textile mills

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What was Germany’s new airforce called?

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Luftwaffe

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What did trade unions do for workers?

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Protected workers rights

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What did the German labour front prevent workers doing?

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Forbidden from going on strikes

Couldn’t move to better paid jobs

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What did the ‘strength through joy’ scheme give workers?

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Give cheap cinema/ theatre tickets

Organise courses/trips

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What the ‘voltswagen beetle’ scheme give workers?

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Asked workers to save for a car

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What did the ‘beauty of labour’ scheme do for workers?

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Improved working conditions, such as washing facilities and cheaper canteens

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What did nazis refer to farmers as to make them feel special?

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‘Blood and soil’

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What organisation was set up in 1933 to make sure farmers goods could be sold across Germany?

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Reich food estate

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What was the problemwith the reich food estate?

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Successful farmers where held back by following same rules as less efficient farmers

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What law protected farmers from banks if they couldn’t pay their mortgage?

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Reich entailed farm law

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What two groups did big businesses no longer have to worry about?

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Communists

Trade unions

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What company gained a huge government contract to make explosives, fertiliser and fake oil?

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IG Farben

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What year and month was food rationing introduced?

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September 1939

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What year and month was clothes rationing introduced?

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November 1939

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21
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Who was Germany’s minister for war?

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Albert Speer

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What city was virtually destroyed by British bombings in 1942?

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Lubeck

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How many German civilians were killed by bombings?

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500,000

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How many German civilians were injured by bombings?

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750,000

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How many civilians were left homeless by bombings?
7.5 million
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What year did Hitler invade Russia?
1941
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What are refugees?
People forced to leave their homes due to war
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How did refugees suffer?
``` Homes were destroyed Fear of invading Russians Walked hundreds of miles Food shortages Cold conditions Disease ```
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How many refugees died leaving their homes?
500,000
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What law gave newly married couples a loan of 1000 reichmarks?
Law for the encouragement of marriage
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What year was the law for the encouragement of marriage introduced?
June 1933
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How would children affect the repayments of the government loan?
One child 25% didn’t have to be payed Two children halved repayments Four children cleared the loan
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What jobs were women removed from under nazi rule?
Teachers and doctors
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What award was given to women who had a large number of children?
Motherhood cross
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How many children would give a woman a gold, silver and bronze medal?
Gold 8 children Silver 6 children Bronze 4 children
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How were women who received the motherhood cross treated?
Given special status Hitler youth saluted them Given special seat at nazi meetings
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What maternity centres allowed single women to become pregnant by an SS or aryan German?
Lebensborns
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What did the birth rate increase from in 1933 and to in 1939?
15 per thousand 1933 to 20 per thousand 1939
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What happened to women during ww2?
Forced to go back to work
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What was the name of the perfect German race?
Aryan
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What were school children taught about the Weimar Republic?
They were criminals, not good for Germany
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What was the name given to the Jews that meant ‘sub-human’?
Untermenschen
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What club would boys join outside of school?
Hitler youth
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What club would girls join outside of school?
League of German maidens
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What things would boys do in the Hitler youth?
``` Parade March Camping Sports Rifle shooting ```
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Who were children encouraged to spy/inform on?
Parents
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What youth opposition group tended to be working class and more violent in their methods?
Edelweiss pirates
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What group tended to be middle class and non-violent?
Swing youth
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What places would swing youth hang out?
Bars Nightclubs Houses in the city
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What did swing youth do that went against nazi ideas?
Listened to British American music Accepted Jews Openly spoke about sex
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How did the Edelweiss pirates help the allies?
Pushed leaflets dropped by planes through people’s letter boxes
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What did Barthes Schink and the cologne pirates do to be executed in 1944?
Stole armaments and attacked nazi gestapo killing the chief
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What agreement did Hitler make with the church in 1933?
Concordat
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How did nazis try to unify all the Protestant churches?
Created nazi reich church
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What member of the church spoke out against the nazis and made a different Protestant church?
Martin Niemoller
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What member of the church led a popular protest against the killing of mentally disabled people?
Clemens Von Galen
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What nazi group stopped Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1937?
Gestapo
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What group of people did Bonhoeffer help escape Germany?
Jews
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Why was Bonhoeffer arrested in 1942?
Contacted allied commanders
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What year was Bonhoeffer hanged?
April 1945
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What were Jews banned from in 1933?
Civil service and teaching jobs
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What two things happened to Jewish shops in 1933?
Marked with Star of David | Boycotted
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How many people were sterilised between 1934 and 1945?
300,000
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Why did much of the persecution stop in 1936?
Berlin olympics
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What does kristallnacht mean on English?
Night of broken glass
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kristallnacht happened In November of what year?
1938
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Name two things that happened on kristallnacht?
Jewish Shops were smashed | Synagogues were burned
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5/6 of what group were killed in 1939?
Gypsies
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What were Homosexuals, alcoholics, the homeless, prostitutes, criminals and beggars known as?
Asocials
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How many mentally ill people were gased between 1939 and 1941?
72,000
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What groups of people did the euthanasia programme kill 5000 of?
Disabled babies and children
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What meeting decided to kill the Jews under nazi occupation?
Wannsee conference
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The wannsee conference took place in January of what year?
1942
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What senior nazi was put in charge of the final solution?
Heinrich himmler
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Name one place the extermination of the Jews was carried out?
Aushwitz
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What was the difference between a death camp and concentration camp?
Concentration camps were labour or work camps | Death camps were designed to kill people within days or weeks of arriving
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Name two conditions of the two camps?
Little food | Disease
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What group of Jews had to remove gold fillings and hair from people who were gassed?
Sonderkommando
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A major death camp in Poland could burn how many bodies a day?
12,000
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What gas crystals were used in the gas chambers?
Zyklon B
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Give three examples of groups in German society blamed for the events?
Civil service Police German people
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What nazi was in charge of propaganda?
Joseph Goebbels
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What was goebbels title?
Minister of propaganda and enlightenment
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What rally took place every year that included speeches and marches that impressed German people?
Nuremburg
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What happened to foreign films that went into Germany?
They were censored
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How could nazi messages be directed into people’s homes, streets and pubs?
Radios
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What were put up in walls to show nazi ideas?
Posters
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How were newspapers affected by the nazis?
Not allowed to print anti nazi ideas
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What was the ‘book-burning’ of 1933
Students burned books against nazi ideals
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What senior nazi was out in charge of the German police forces?
Heinrich himmler
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What was the SS originally set up as?
Hitlers bodyguards
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What two groups were the SS split in to?
Waffen SS, deaths head
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What did the two SS groups do?
Waffen SS- elite army group | Deaths head- ran concentration camps
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What was the secret police known as?
Gestapo
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What could the secret police do?
Spy on people Listen to phone calls Open mail
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Where were ‘enemies of state’ sent?
Concentration camps
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How did the police help the Nazis?
Ignored nazi crimes
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How did judges and the Courts help the Nazis?
Swore and oath of loyalty to Hitler | Sentenced people harshly for going against The Nazis
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What students printed anti-nazi leaflets when they were students at university?
Hans and Sophie scholl
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What non violent group did hans and Sophie form
The white rose group
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What happened to the leaders of the white rose group?
Arrested and beheaded
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When were the leaders of the white rose group arrested and beheaded?
1942-43
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What nazi army officer tried to blow up Hitler with a suitcase bomb?
Claus Von stauffenberg
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What year did the assassination attempt of Hitler take place?
1944
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Why did the assassination attempt of Hitler fail?
The bomb was moved

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