Nazi Policy

Question 1

What were the Nazi’s aims on reducing unemployment?

Answer 1

Make Germany strong again!
- wanted an autarky
- aimed for rearmement
- created a huge programme of public works to create jobs
(Olympic stadium, 7000km of autobahns)

Question 2

DAF

Answer 2

German Labour Front
- impossible to find a job if you weren’t signed up
- set up KDF

Question 3

KDF

Answer 3

Strength through joy

• improved leisure time of German workers
• discounts/free tickets to theatres/concerts, museums, cruises
• encouraged improved conditions and wages

(however many work places got worse, there were serious accidents in factories and workers couldn’t question these conditions)

Question 4

How many people went on KDF holidays and when?

Answer 4

10 million in 1933

Question 5

What happened to trade unions in 1933?

Answer 5

BANNED
- to control the workforce and prevent strikes

Question 6

RAD

Answer 6

National Labour Corps

From 1933, it was compulsory for men 18-25 to serve in RAD for 6 months
- in 1939 extended to women
Wore uniform and lived in camps with military training

Question 7

When did RAD become compulsory?

Answer 7

1933 men
1939 women

Question 8

Invisible unemployment

Answer 8

• part-time workers listed as full-time
• ignored unemployed jews and women
• unemployed men under 25 forced into RAD

Question 9

Women

Answer 9

Conservative, modest clothing, aryan, long hair tied back, no interest in politics
SOLE PURPOSE: Have lots of children and become a housewife

3Ks = kitchen, children, church

Question 10

Lebensborn

Answer 10

Unmarried women could donate a baby to Hitler
- have a baby with socially pure (aryan) SS man

Question 11

Mother’s cross

Answer 11

Awards given to mothers with large families
Gold cross = 8 children

Question 12

Law for Encouragement of Marriage

Answer 12

Aimed to increase the birthrate
- loans to help couples marry
- then could keep a 1/4 of it per child
- but woman must quit her job

Question 13

Divorce Law

Answer 13

Divorce was allowed if the couple couldn’t have kids or they already had 4 kids

Question 14

Hitler Youth

Answer 14

1936 attendance = compulsory!
- children taught that Nazi loyalty came above their parents
- encouraged to tell if friends/family criticised the Nazis
- extreme sports, military skills and fitness
- taught Nazi based skills
- domestic/motherhood preparation for girls

Question 15

When did the Hitler Youth become compulsory?

Answer 15

1936 for age 10+

Question 16

Education

Answer 16

Teachers must swear an oath to Hitler or they are sacked
- promoted Nazi ideals
- altered curriculum to indoctrinate students
- eugenics and racial studies
eg. How to breed racially pure humans/how to identify a jew
- 1/6 lessons were PE

Question 17

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 17

1935
Only people with German blood may be citizens
Forbade sexual relationships between Jews & Germans

Question 18

What happened to jews in 1933/34 ?

Answer 18

Boycott of Jewish businesses
Jews banned from public facilities

Question 19

What happened to Jews in 1935/36?

Answer 19

Jews in professions banned
Anti-Jew campaign quietened due to the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Question 20

What happened to Jews in 1937/38?

Answer 20

Jewish children banned from education
Kristillnacht

Question 21

When was Kristillnacht?

Answer 21

November 1938

Question 22

Kristillnacht

Answer 22

Young jew shot an official in German embassy in protest
Goebbles used this to organise attacks on Jews, businesses and homes smashed and set on fire
2000 sent to concentration camps
100 Jews killed

Question 23

Results of Kristillnacht?

Answer 23

2000 ↪️ concentration camps
100 Jews killed