Nazi policy

Question 1

Aims of the Nazi home policy

Answer 1

Reduce unemployment
Policy to encourage work
Change role of women
Control education
Discriminate against Jews

Question 2

RAD

Answer 2

National Labour service corps
All men ages 18-25 had to join

Question 3

Aims of RAD

Answer 3

Built infrastructure
Decreased unemployment
Built motorways for mobilisation of the army
Form of cheap Labour force

Question 4

Autobahn

Answer 4

Motorways built by RAD

Question 5

Reintroduction of conscription aim

Answer 5

1935
Kept down unemployment
built up the army

Question 6

Industry increase aim?

Answer 6

Strengthen economy
Decrease unemployment
Become fully self sufficient (autarky)

Question 7

How did Nazis manipulate statistics of unemployment?

Answer 7

Not include women or Jews out of work
Not include RAD
Not included conscripted soldiers
So appeared more prosperous than reality

Question 8

What replaced trade unions?

Answer 8

DAF
National Labour front

Question 9

Who was part of the DAF?

Answer 9

Employers and workers
Worked for interests of both

Question 10

Aims of the DAF

Answer 10

Keep workers happy to continue working by giving them high wages, social security
Maintain control to prevent trade unions

Question 11

KdF

Answer 11

Strength through joy group
Improved leisure time of workers to make them happier working
By giving rewards

Question 12

How did Nazis make workers happy (KdF and Beauty of work)

Answer 12

Increased wages
Volkswagen scheme so they could buy a car
Improved leisure time of concerts, holidays and picnics
Improved conditions of work

Question 13

Beauty of work

Answer 13

Set up by KdF
To organise building of leisure infrastructure ie pools and sports grounds
To make workers happier and increase employment

Question 14

Nazi ideal of women

Answer 14

Super traditional
Didn’t wear makeup
Didn’t work, have interest in education or politics
Subservient to husband
Had so many children

Question 15

Law for encouragement of marriage

Answer 15

Encourage women to marry so they could have a child
Because no sex before marriage was expected back then

Question 16

How did Nazis up the birth rate?

Answer 16

Encourage marriage
Give medals depending on how many babies you had
Lebensborn, unmarried women impregnated by the SS

Question 17

How did Nazi policy to women change?

Answer 17

1937
Women encouraged to work to build up economy and military for the war

Question 18

What did teachers have to join?

Answer 18

Nazi teachers league

Question 19

How did Nazi control children?

Answer 19

The education system:
Had to read mein kamp
Began lessons with Nazi salute
Textbooks had to be Nazi approved
Spare time with Hitler youth

Question 20

Hitler youth

Answer 20

For young boys
Nazi ideals such as obedience and racial purity taught
Spent their after school time there
Compulsory from 1939

Question 21

How were Jews treated?

Answer 21

2nd class citizens
Considered subhuman

Question 22

Jewish people in schools

Answer 22

Children banned from 1938

Question 23

How did Nazis treat Jewish buisnesses?

Answer 23

Organised boycotts
Destroyed them during kristllnacht

Question 24

Nuremberg laws

Answer 24

Jews no longer had citizenship
No intermarriage between Jews and non Jews
Took away civil and political rights

Question 25

How did Nazis justify Kristallnacht?

Answer 25

A polish jew assassinated a Nazi politician in France
Nazis used this as propaganda to show how Jews were violent and would destroy Germany, they must be retaliated against

Question 26

What happened during Kristallnacht?

Answer 26

100 killed
20,000 sent to concentration camps
Businesses, synagogues and homes attacked, windows smashed and violence

Question 27

What happened after Kristallnacht?

Answer 27

Jews blamed for starting it and fined 1 billion reichsmarks
Now Jews not permitted to their own businesses

Question 28

Office for Jewish emigration

Answer 28

SS were responsible for forced Jewish emigration

Question 29

What happened to any remaining Jews?

Answer 29

Forced into ghettos
Had to hand in radios so couldn’t listen to foreign news

Question 30

What was life like for young boys in Nazi Germany?

Answer 30

Joined Hitler youth every day after school
Wore military style clothes
Activities centred around pe and indoctrination

Question 31

What was life like for German girls in Nazi germany?

Answer 31

Joined league of German maidens every day after school
Uniform = long skirt and marching boots
Mainly domestic work and preparing to become a mother

Question 32

What were schools like in Nazi germany?

Answer 32

Aim to indoctrinate children and keep them from questioning
So these ideals would continue for years
Learnt Nazi ideas such as racial purity and the science of genetics
Lots of pe, less maths and chemistry

Question 33

Nazi beliefs on race

Answer 33

Aryans were master race
Others were subhuman
Believed in racial purity so removing certain ethnicities deemed subhuman from the gene pool

Question 34

Sterilisation

Answer 34

Nazi policy of preventing disabled people from having children in an attempt to eradicate disabled people

Question 35

Euthanasia

Answer 35

The murder of certain groups such as the disabled and Jewish people to eradicate them

Question 36

Concentration camps

Answer 36

Removing and segregating any one who didn’t fit the Nazi ideals of Aryan race

Question 37

Eugenics

Answer 37

Nazis idea of combining sterilisation of those they viewed as undesirable
And euthanising those they deemed as a threat
In pursuit of creating a ‘pure’ aryan race

Question 38

Did working conditions actually improve over this period?

Answer 38

In reality not as much:
Wages fell
Number of hours increased
Factory accidents increased
Despite beauty of labour scheme, protesting working conditions = blacklisted from industry