Nazi policy- 2) Workers

Question 1

2. Policy towards workers (3)

Answer 1

a. Why?? (2)
b. The German Labour Front (4)
c. Strength through Joy

Question 2

2. Policy towards workers (3)
   a. Why?? (2)

Answer 2

i. Wanted to control to prevent strikes.
ii. And industry met the needs of rearmament.

Question 3

2. Policy towards workers (3)
   b. The German Labour Front (4)

Answer 3

i. It’s leader was Robert Ley.
ii. Became largest organisation in Germany. Had 22 million members by 1939.
iii. Actual info (7)
iv. Volkswagen scheme: (6)

Question 4

2. Policy towards workers (3)
   b. The German Labour Front (4)
   iii. Actual info (7)

Answer 4

1. Included employers and workers: supposed to represent interests of both.
2. All strikes banned
3. Wages decided by them
4. Workers given conceptual: (3)
5. Workers received workbooks. (2)
6. In theory membership is voluntary but any worker would find it difficult to get a job without being a member.
7. Membership fee ranged from 15 pfennig to 3 Reichsmarks depending on occupation.

Question 5

2. Policy towards workers (3)
   b. The German Labour Front (4)
   iii. Actual info (7)
3. Workers given conceptual: (3)

Answer 5

a. Relatively high wages
b. Job security
c. Social and leisure programs

Question 6

2. Policy towards workers (3)
   b. The German Labour Front (4)
   iii. Actual info (7)
3. Workers received workbooks. (2)

Answer 6

a. Recorded employment history
b. Needed them to get a job

Question 7

2. Policy towards workers (3)
   b. The German Labour Front (4)
   iv. Volkswagen scheme: (6)

Answer 7

1. Organised in 1938 by DAF.
2. Gave workers opportunity to subscribe 5 marks a week to buy own car.
3. By the end of 1938 more than 150,000 people had ordered a car and they were told to expect it in 1940.
4. None of them got one.
5. Production had shifted to producing military vehicles.
6. Nobody got refunded.

Question 8

2. Policy towards workers (3)
   c. Strength through Joy

Answer 8

i. For short is KdF.
ii. Organisation set up by DAF.
iii. Tried to improve leisure time of workers by sponsoring wide range of leisure and cultural trips. (3)
iv. Beauty of Work (4)

Question 9

2. Policy towards workers (3)
   c. Strength through Joy
   iii. Tried to improve leisure time of workers by sponsoring wide range of leisure and cultural trips. (3)

Answer 9

1. 10 million people went on KdF trips in 1938.
2. Provided at low cost-
3. gives ordinary workers an opportunity normally for the better off.