NAZI SOCIETY Flashcards

1
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Control over working class

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Shut down of trade unions- no way to bargain therefore less power

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2
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What organisation replaced trade unions?

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DAF

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3
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Membership of the DAF by 1939

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22 million

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4
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Beauty of Labour (SdA)

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Aimed to provide cleaner working conditions, meals etc

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5
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Strength through Joy

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Recreational activities eg cultural visits, travels etc

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6
Q

Downsides of Nazi policies to working classes/industrial workers

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Still had to pay tax to DAF
Increase in working hours
Unemployment statistics manipulated- women and Jews
Conscription

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7
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How did farmers benefit from Nazi policy?

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Promise of financial aid

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8
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How did farmers benefit from Nazi policy?

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Promise of financial aid

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9
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‘Blood and soil’

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Farmers as the racially purest element of the Volk

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10
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Benefits for farmers (4)

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Farm debts written off
Small farmers given low interest rates
Reich Entailed Farm Law 1933
Reich Food Estate 1933

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11
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By how much did agricultural production increase over 1928-1938?

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20%

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12
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Businesses

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Helped by the upturn in world trade and banning of trade unions

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13
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Landowners

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Nazi policies did not threaten their interests

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14
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Mittelstand (2)

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Supported confiscation of Jewish businesses as it gave them low interest rates
New trading regulations supported small craftsmen

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15
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Downsides for middle class

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Could not compete with big businesses

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16
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Co-ordination in schools (3)

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Centralised under the Reich Ministry of Education
Teaching ‘reconditioned’ eg banned Jewish teachers
National Socialist Teachers League

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17
Q

What was the Nazi association for teachers?

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National Socialist Teachers League

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18
Q

How many teachers were a part of the National Socialist Teachers League by 1937?

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97%

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19
Q

How much school time was spent on physical education?

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15%

20
Q

Hitler Youth

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Political indoctrination

Sexes moulded for their future roles

21
Q

How many teachers were members of the Nazi party by 1936?

A

32%

22
Q

Evidence of youth conformity

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Welcomed extra curricular activities

Atmosphere of fun and belonging

23
Q

Evidence of youth opposition

A

Less impact on adolescents

Swing youth, Edelweiss Piraten

24
Q

What religion did Hitler try to start up?

A

The German Faith Movement

25
Q

Hitler’s attitude to religion at the beginning

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Paid tribute to churches

SA encouraged to attend Protestant services

26
Q

Day of Potsdam religion

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Gave the impression Nazism could accomodate Protestantism

27
Q

What did the Catholic church sign to safeguard their position under the Nazis?

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Catholic Concordat July 1933

28
Q

Opposition to Nazi religious policy

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Formation of the Confessional Church

29
Q

What did Hitler create to destabilise the churches?

A

Ministry of Church Affairs

30
Q

What did the Ministry of Church affairs do? (3)

A

Closed church schools
Harassed clergy
Confiscated church funds

31
Q

What % of people caught on to Neo-protestantism?

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5%

32
Q

What % of university students were female?

A

10%

33
Q

What incentive did the Nazis provide for women to withdraw from the labour market ?

A

June 1933 interest free loans made available

34
Q

Failures in policies for women

A

War reversed the employment levels

35
Q

What role did propaganda play in the family?

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Glorified motherhood and the large family

36
Q

Marriage and family measures (6)

A
Marriage loans
Improved family allowances 
Income tax in proportion to children 
Improved maternity benefits 
Stricter abortion laws
Restricted contraceptive advice
37
Q

What did they award mothers with when they had children ?

A

Honour Cross of the German Mother

38
Q

How many children on estimate were born in Lebensborns?

A

11,000

39
Q

What law allowed compulsory sterilisation?

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July 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring

40
Q

What law forbade marriage for those mentally disabled or hereditarily diseased?

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Oct 1935 Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German Nation

41
Q

How many homosexuals were imprisoned in camps?

A

10,000-15,000

42
Q

What office was set up to deal with ‘asocials’?

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The Reich Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion

43
Q

Nuremburg laws

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Changed the status of Jews- legal framework for the Holocaust

44
Q

What did the SA do to Jewish shops 1 April?

A

Boycotted them

45
Q

Use of propaganda- Jews

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Propaganda to indoctrinate anti- semitism

46
Q

Which law set towards confiscating all Jewish property?

A

26 April Decree for the Registration of Jewish Property

47
Q

‘Decree to ______ Jews from ______ ____’

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‘Decree to Exclude Jews from Common Life’