Nazi Social, Economic and Racial Policy Flashcards
3 rs relating what Hitler does to try and solve the economic issues
Rule reduce reward
3 ways Hitler reduces unemployment
Conscription
Rearmament
RAD (National Labour Service Corps)
What does the RAD stand for
The National Labour Service Corps
What was the RAD (National Labour Service Corps)
From 1935
Compulsory 6 months of work for men aged 18-25
E.g planting trees, building hospitals, building autobahns
Very low wages, given very little food, wore uniforms, lived in camps, carried out military drills
One way Hitler ruled the workforce
1933 Set up DAF and trade Unions were banned
When did Hitler set up DAF and trade Unions were banned
1933
What does DAF stand for
The German Labour Front
How did the DAF being set up in 1933 rule the workforce
Hitler had full control of workers
Workers banned from strikes, given quite high wages and controlled employers with employment rights
2 ways Hitler rewarded the workforce
Strength through joy
Beauty of labour
What was KDF (strength through joy)
Organised leisure time for workers to reward their hard work
E.g theatre trips, cruises, holidays
What did the 3 Ks stand for in terms of women
Children
Church
Cooking
True or false, Hitler agreed with the freedom that women had gained during the golden age of Weimar
False
He wanted to reverse this to make them traditional housewives again
What did Hitler believe the role of women should be
Traditional housewives (in charge of domestic work)
True or false, Hitler allowed women to be teachers and doctors etc
False
He thought women should be inferior to men and should revert to traditional housewives
German word for ‘People’s community’
Volksgemeinshaft
True or false, the Nazis believed women were just as important as men
True
Even though they were treated as inferior the Nazis believed that the women’s role as a mother would be very important in building the Volksgemeknshaft
2 key laws for women
The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage 1933
Lebensborn (Life Springs programme) 1936
What was the 1933 Law for the Encouragement of Marriage
Introduced to help increase birth rate to to help build and expand the Master race
What was Lebensborn (Life Springs Programme) 1936
Unmarried Aryan women made pregnant by ‘racially pure’ SS men
Aryan meaning
Anyone non Jewish
(Thought to be ‘pure’ German)
How did the Nazis help to increase the birth rate and strengthen the Master Race
Encourage more births: Law for the Encouragement of Marriage 1933
Lebensborn 1936
Women given medals for the more children that they had
Nuremberg Laws 1935
What year were the Nuremberg Laws introduced
1935
What year was Lebensborn
1936
What year was the Law for the encouragement of marriage
1933
What were the Nuremberg Laws 1935
Marriages between Aryans (‘pure Germans’) and Jews banned
What ‘look’ did Nazis want women to have
Blond
Heavy hipped
Athletic
Flat shoes
Full skirt
No make up
Wear hair in bun/ plait
Indoctrination meaning
Making someone think a certain way
What did Hitler use to indoctrinate Nazis’ ideals onto the German Youth
The education system
True or false, the Nazis used school as a tool to indoctrinate children on the Nazi ways of life
True
What lessons did boys learn in school and why
Maths (to do with firing guns) and PE (get them fitter and stronger)
Prepare them for the army
What lessons did girls do in school and why
Cooking and learning how to bring up a child to help prepare them for being a traditional housewife
Key lessons in Nazi school that helped get across Hitler’s anti- semestic views
Race studies (put across Nazi views of race and population control)
Geography (show how Germany was surrounded by hostile neighbours)
History (portray TofV and communism as evil things
Biology (study racial theory and importance of ‘master race’)
What did all lessons start and end with
Salute saying Heil Hitler
What did all teachers have to belong to
The Nazi Teacher’s League
They had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler + promote Nazi ideas in the classroom
The Nazis used history lessons to show what
Germany was surrounded by hostile neighbours
TofV and communism were evil things
How did the Hitler ensure teachers were promoting Nazi views in the classroom
They had to swear oath of loyalty to Hitler
Had to join Nazi teachers’ league
When was the Hitler Youth Movement introduced
1925
When was the Hitler Youth made compulsory
1939
What tasks did boys do in the Hitler Youth
Military drills e.g shooting, map reading, drills
Athletics
Hiking
Camping
By 1939 how many members did the Hitler Youth have including boys and girls
7 million
Persecution meaning
Ill and unfair treatment
Examples of groups of people persecuted by the Nazis
Ill
Disabled
Jewish
Sinti and Roma
Scapegoat meaning
A thing that takes the blame for others (e.g Jews for the war)
Hitler refereed to Jews as s….
Subhumans
True or false, Hitler thought it was necessary to introduce selective breeding and destroying Jews to achieve his ‘master race’
True
When did Kristallnacht occur
November 1938
What does Kristillnact mean
The Night of broken glass
What happened in Kristillnacht November 1938
A Polish Jew assassinated a German in the German Embassy in Paris
Goebbels uses this as opportunity to retaliate against the Jews so organised attacks on Jewish property across Germany (shops, synagogues etc)
What event stimulated kristillnacht
November 1938 Polish Jew assassinates German in the German embassy, Paris
(Goebbels use some this as an opportunity to retaliate against the Jews by destroying Jewish properties)
How many Jewish businesses were destroyed in Kristallnacht
Over 7,500
How many Jews were killed in Kristallnacht
100
In 1933 what boycott was organised by the SA
Jewish shops and businesses
In what year were Jewish people evicted (expelled) from their homes and sent to ghettos
1939
Examples of
Examples of public works programmes (The RAD often did these)
Planting trees, building autobahns and hospitals
What car related scheme was launched in 1938
Volkswagen scheme
DAF workers had opportunity to save money to buy their own car
Was the Volkswagen scheme aimed at rewarding, reducing or ruling the workforce
Rewarding
(Workers could save up to buy car)
How big was the army in 1939
1.4 million
All textbooks had to be approved by what
The ministry of education
Name for Hitler youth for girls
German league of Maidens
