nazi policies

Question 1

when was the National Labour Service Corps made compulsary for men aged 18-25?

Answer 1

1935

Question 2

when was the National Labour Service Corps extended to women?

Answer 2

1939

Question 3

what was the purpose of the National Labour Service Corps?

Answer 3

-intended to encourage the spirit of national socialism
-also provided germany with a cheap labour force

Question 4

how many kilometers of highway were created by the Nazis road building schemes? what is the name for a highway in German?

Answer 4

-7,000kms
-autobahns

Question 5

how did the Nazis make unemployment appear to go down?

Answer 5

-1.4 million men were in the army
-jews werent included in unemployment figures
-women werent counted
-men in national labour service corps weren’t counted
-those in concentration camps weren’t counted

Question 6

when was conscription re-introduced?

Answer 6

1935

Question 7

when conscription was reintroduced, how much did the army grow to?

Answer 7

grew to 1,400,000 in 1939

Question 8

how much was spent on rearmament by 1939?

Answer 8

26 billion marks

Question 9

when were trade unions banned and what was set up as an alternative?

Answer 9

1933, German Labour Front

Question 10

how many members did the German Labour Front have in 1939?

Answer 10

22 million

Question 11

what was the German Labour Front (DAF) desgined to do?

Answer 11

-included employers and workers and was meant to represent the intrests of both
-workers were given relativley high wages and social and leisure programmes

Question 12

when did the DAF launch the volkswagen scheme and what was it?

Answer 12

-1938
-give workers an oppourtunity to buy their own car

Question 13

did anyone get a car as a result of the volkswagen scheme?

Answer 13

no one got a car becuase production shifted to military vehicles in 1939

Question 14

what was the strength through joy (KdF) programme?

Answer 14

-set up to improve the leisure time of German workers
-this included concerts, sporting events

Question 15

how many people went on a KdF holiday in 1938?

Answer 15

10 million

Question 16

what was the beauty of work programme?

Answer 16

-set up by the KdF to improve working conditions
-organised the building of canteens, swimming pools, sports facilities

Question 17

what was the ideal nazi woman?

Answer 17

-no makeup
-buns/plaits
-no intrest in politics
-discouraged from slimming
-professional women were forced to give up their jobs

Question 18

when was the law for the encouragement of marriage introduced and what was it?

Answer 18

-1933
-gave newlywed couples a loan 1,000 marks
-they could keep 250 marks for each child they had

Question 19

what happened on Hitler’s mothers birthday?

Answer 19

medals awarded to women with large families

Question 20

what numbers of children were the different mothers cross medals awarded to?

Answer 20

bronze = 4 children
silver = 6 children
gold = 8 children

Question 21

when was the change to the divorce law and what was it?

Answer 21

-1938
-made divorce easier if the husband or wife was unable to have children

Question 22

what was Lebensborn?

Answer 22

a programme set up to force unmarried women to have children with a ‘racially pure” SS man

Question 23

what were the three Ks of nazi women?

Answer 23

Kinder, Kuche, Kirche - children, kitchen, church

Question 24

when was the Nazi policy surrounding women reversed and why?

Answer 24

-1937
-germany was rearming and men were joining the army

Question 25

what did all textbooks have to be approved by?

Answer 25

the ministry of education

Question 26

what became a standard text in schools?

Answer 26

mein kamf

Question 27

what did school teachers have to do under Hitlers rule?

Answer 27

swear loyalty to Hitler and join the Nazi teachers league

Question 28

what percentage of teachers were members of the Nazi party in 1936?

Answer 28

36%

Question 29

give some examples of things students would do at school as a result of the nazi regime

Answer 29

-start and end lessons with 'heil hitler' -nazi themes presented in every lesson - emphasis on germanys past and the aryan race -15% of time was for physical education

Question 30

what was the aim of the hitler youth?

Answer 30

to prepare german boys to be furtre soldiers and control the time of the youth

Question 30

what did boys aged 14 and over join?

Answer 30

the hitler youth

Question 31

what did they wear and do in the Hitler Youth?

Answer 31

-military style uniform -activities based of physical excersise, rifle practice -political indoctrination

Question 32

what was the equivilent of the hitler youth for girls?

Answer 32

the league of german maidens

Question 33

what did they wear and do in the league of german maidens?

Answer 33

-blue skirt, white blouse, heavy shoes -physical exercise, developing domestic skills like sewing/cooking

Question 34

when was the Hitler youth made compulsary ?

Answer 34

1939

Question 35

how many members were there in the hitler youth in 1939?

Answer 35

7 million

Question 36

what were Hitlers Theories of races based on?

Answer 36

social darwinism - the idea that the aryan race was superior

Question 37

who was considered 'untermenschen' by Hitler?

Answer 37

Jews and Slavs

Question 38

when were jewish teachers forbidden to give private tuition to german students?

Answer 38

1936

Question 39

when were jewish children expelled from German schools?

Answer 39

1938

Question 40

when did the SA organise a boycott of Jewish shops and buisnesses?

Answer 40

1933

Question 41

when did local councils ban jews from public spaces?

Answer 41

1934

Question 42

when were the nuremberg laws passed?

Answer 42

1935

Question 43

what did the nuremburg law state?

Answer 43

-removed many rights from jewish people -jewish people were denied the right to be german citizens -marriage and relationships between jewish people and germans became illegal

Question 44

what did Geobbles use as fuel to start kristallnacht?

Answer 44

-a polish jew assasinated a german in the german embassy in paris -goebbles used this as an oppourtunity to retaliate against jews in germany

Question 45

when did the polish jew assasinate the german before kristallnacht?

Answer 45

8th November 1938

Question 46

when were jewish homes, businesses and synagouges attacked (kristallnacht)?

Answer 46

night of 9th November 1938

Question 47

how many jewish shops were damaged and how many synagouges were burned in kristallnacht?

Answer 47

-7,500 jewish shops -400 synagouges

Question 48

how many jews were killed and how many were sent to concentration camps after kristallnacht?

Answer 48

-100 killed -20,000 sent to camps

Question 49

kristallnacht: hitler blamed the jews for provoking attacks - how much did he fine them?

Answer 49

1 billion reichsmarchs in compensation

Question 50

when was the Reich Office for Jewish Emigration established? what did it do?

Answer 50

-1939 -the SS were responsible for removing jews through forced emigration

Question 51

when were jews evicted from their homes and forced into designated ghettos?

Answer 51

April 1939

Question 52

when were jews forced to hand in their radio sets so that they could not listen to foreign news?

Answer 52

september 1939

Question 54

How was women being encouraged out of work a way of reducing unemployment for men?

Answer 54

The men filled the place of the women - meant the Nazis lived up to their promise of reducing unemployment