Nazi Germany Quiz Flashcards
Who organised Germany’s finances to pay for work creation programmes?
Dr Hjalmar Schacht
What projects did the national labour service send men to work in?
Building motor ways
Railway extensions
House building
What was introduced in 1935?
Conscription
What was made in 1936?
The four year plan
Hitler wanted Germany to be self-sufficient, what did this mean?
They would have enough goods and food to support themselves through war
The German army’s need for weapons, equipment and uniforms would create jobs in what three industries?
Coal mines
Steel industry
Textile mills
What was Germany’s new airforce called?
Luftwaffe
What did trade unions do for workers?
Protected workers rights
What did the German labour front prevent workers doing?
Forbidden from going on strikes
Couldn’t move to better paid jobs
What did the ‘strength through joy’ scheme give workers?
Give cheap cinema/ theatre tickets
Organise courses/trips
What the ‘voltswagen beetle’ scheme give workers?
Asked workers to save for a car
What did the ‘beauty of labour’ scheme do for workers?
Improved working conditions, such as washing facilities and cheaper canteens
What did nazis refer to farmers as to make them feel special?
‘Blood and soil’
What organisation was set up in 1933 to make sure farmers goods could be sold across Germany?
Reich food estate
What was the problemwith the reich food estate?
Successful farmers where held back by following same rules as less efficient farmers
What law protected farmers from banks if they couldn’t pay their mortgage?
Reich entailed farm law
What two groups did big businesses no longer have to worry about?
Communists
Trade unions
What company gained a huge government contract to make explosives, fertiliser and fake oil?
IG Farben
What year and month was food rationing introduced?
September 1939
What year and month was clothes rationing introduced?
November 1939
Who was Germany’s minister for war?
Albert Speer
What city was virtually destroyed by British bombings in 1942?
Lubeck
How many German civilians were killed by bombings?
500,000
How many German civilians were injured by bombings?
750,000
How many civilians were left homeless by bombings?
7.5 million
What year did Hitler invade Russia?
1941
What are refugees?
People forced to leave their homes due to war
How did refugees suffer?
Homes were destroyed Fear of invading Russians Walked hundreds of miles Food shortages Cold conditions Disease
How many refugees died leaving their homes?
500,000
What law gave newly married couples a loan of 1000 reichmarks?
Law for the encouragement of marriage
What year was the law for the encouragement of marriage introduced?
June 1933
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
What jobs were women removed from under nazi rule?
Teachers and doctors
What award was given to women who had a large number of children?
Motherhood cross
How many children would give a woman a gold, silver and bronze medal?
Gold 8 children
Silver 6 children
Bronze 4 children
How were women who received the motherhood cross treated?
Given special status
Hitler youth saluted them
Given special seat at nazi meetings
What maternity centres allowed single women to become pregnant by an SS or aryan German?
Lebensborns
What did the birth rate increase from in 1933 and to in 1939?
15 per thousand 1933 to 20 per thousand 1939
What happened to women during ww2?
Forced to go back to work
What was the name of the perfect German race?
Aryan
What were school children taught about the Weimar Republic?
They were criminals, not good for Germany
What was the name given to the Jews that meant ‘sub-human’?
Untermenschen
What club would boys join outside of school?
Hitler youth
What club would girls join outside of school?
League of German maidens
What things would boys do in the Hitler youth?
Parade March Camping Sports Rifle shooting
Who were children encouraged to spy/inform on?
Parents
What youth opposition group tended to be working class and more violent in their methods?
Edelweiss pirates
What group tended to be middle class and non-violent?
Swing youth
What places would swing youth hang out?
Bars
Nightclubs
Houses in the city
What did swing youth do that went against nazi ideas?
Listened to British American music
Accepted Jews
Openly spoke about sex
How did the Edelweiss pirates help the allies?
Pushed leaflets dropped by planes through people’s letter boxes
What did Barthes Schink and the cologne pirates do to be executed in 1944?
Stole armaments and attacked nazi gestapo killing the chief
What agreement did Hitler make with the church in 1933?
Concordat
How did nazis try to unify all the Protestant churches?
Created nazi reich church
What member of the church spoke out against the nazis and made a different Protestant church?
Martin Niemoller
What member of the church led a popular protest against the killing of mentally disabled people?
Clemens Von Galen
What nazi group stopped Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1937?
Gestapo
What group of people did Bonhoeffer help escape Germany?
Jews
Why was Bonhoeffer arrested in 1942?
Contacted allied commanders
What year was Bonhoeffer hanged?
April 1945
What were Jews banned from in 1933?
Civil service and teaching jobs
What two things happened to Jewish shops in 1933?
Marked with Star of David
Boycotted
How many people were sterilised between 1934 and 1945?
300,000
Why did much of the persecution stop in 1936?
Berlin olympics
What does kristallnacht mean on English?
Night of broken glass
kristallnacht happened In November of what year?
1938
Name two things that happened on kristallnacht?
Jewish Shops were smashed
Synagogues were burned
5/6 of what group were killed in 1939?
Gypsies
What were Homosexuals, alcoholics, the homeless, prostitutes, criminals and beggars known as?
Asocials
How many mentally ill people were gased between 1939 and 1941?
72,000
What groups of people did the euthanasia programme kill 5000 of?
Disabled babies and children
What meeting decided to kill the Jews under nazi occupation?
Wannsee conference
The wannsee conference took place in January of what year?
1942
What senior nazi was put in charge of the final solution?
Heinrich himmler
Name one place the extermination of the Jews was carried out?
Aushwitz
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
Name two conditions of the two camps?
Little food
Disease
What group of Jews had to remove gold fillings and hair from people who were gassed?
Sonderkommando
A major death camp in Poland could burn how many bodies a day?
12,000
What gas crystals were used in the gas chambers?
Zyklon B
Give three examples of groups in German society blamed for the events?
Civil service
Police
German people
What nazi was in charge of propaganda?
Joseph Goebbels
What was goebbels title?
Minister of propaganda and enlightenment
What rally took place every year that included speeches and marches that impressed German people?
Nuremburg
What happened to foreign films that went into Germany?
They were censored
How could nazi messages be directed into people’s homes, streets and pubs?
Radios
What were put up in walls to show nazi ideas?
Posters
How were newspapers affected by the nazis?
Not allowed to print anti nazi ideas
What was the ‘book-burning’ of 1933
Students burned books against nazi ideals
What senior nazi was out in charge of the German police forces?
Heinrich himmler
What was the SS originally set up as?
Hitlers bodyguards
What two groups were the SS split in to?
Waffen SS, deaths head
What did the two SS groups do?
Waffen SS- elite army group
Deaths head- ran concentration camps
What was the secret police known as?
Gestapo
What could the secret police do?
Spy on people
Listen to phone calls
Open mail
Where were ‘enemies of state’ sent?
Concentration camps
How did the police help the Nazis?
Ignored nazi crimes
How did judges and the Courts help the Nazis?
Swore and oath of loyalty to Hitler
Sentenced people harshly for going against The Nazis
What students printed anti-nazi leaflets when they were students at university?
Hans and Sophie scholl
What non violent group did hans and Sophie form
The white rose group
What happened to the leaders of the white rose group?
Arrested and beheaded
When were the leaders of the white rose group arrested and beheaded?
1942-43
What nazi army officer tried to blow up Hitler with a suitcase bomb?
Claus Von stauffenberg
What year did the assassination attempt of Hitler take place?
1944
Why did the assassination attempt of Hitler fail?
The bomb was moved
