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what was the atmosphere of life in nazi germany

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celebratory, happy, prosperity, bubbling
swastika flags everwhere
welcoming

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what was march 33

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first concentration camps for german people who didn’t follow the rules

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what was concentrtion camps seen as

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‘back to re-education’

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how did germany feel

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enthusiastic and welcoming
pride of germany and hitler being grateful

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what did nazis promise

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work and bread

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what does “speak through a flower” suggest

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say only good things and dont critisize

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what was banned in germany

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forgin newspapers and non german books

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SS duties

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Arrest citizens and send them to concentration camps
Listened into people’s conversations

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who was head of SS

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heinhard heydrich

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how did the SS help nazis

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They were very powerful and had sweeping powers
People had to prove their germanness which helped to create a “pure germany”

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gestapo duties

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Crushing opposition and carrying out Nazi racial policies
SD - internal security service
Death Heads units - responsible for concentration camps
Waffen-SS - fought alongside regular army

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who was head of the gestapo

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heinrich himmler

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how did the gestapo help nazis

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They were highly trained and very loyal to Hitler. They had about 1 million staff

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courts duties

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the nazis controlled all magistrates, judges and the courts

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who was head of the courts

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himmler

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how did the courts help the nazis

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it made the courts people fear the nazis and kept nazi support high

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police duties

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Police did politica ‘snooping’ to their normal law and order role. They were under strict instructions

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who was head of the police

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himmler

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19
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how did the police help the nazis

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They were to ignore crimes by nazi agents so they never looked bad
Kept Nazi support high

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concentration camp duties

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Prisoners were forced to do hard labour. Food was limited and prisoners suffered harsh discipline, beatings and random executions.

The aim was to ‘correct’ opponents of the regime
By 1920 deaths were common and very few came out alive

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who ran the concentration camp

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set up by hitler but ruled by the SS

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how did concentration camps help the nazis

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They were the Nazi’s ultimate sanction against their own people

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23
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how did the olympics help the nazis

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there were 49 countries coming to berlin which was a major way for goebbls to show their civilised and sucessful nation

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what did goebbls do for the olympics

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build a new stadium to hold 100,000 people
electrical lighting
there were television cameras and photo electronic timing devises

25
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failures of the olympics

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Jesse Owens, a black American athlete won 4 gold medals and broke records. There were ten black members on the american team and they won 13 medals between them

26
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what did schools teach

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only topics based on germany such as germany history only

27
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what did biology teach you

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about being a special member of the arayn race and how it is superior

28
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what would a boy do in hitler youth

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germans young people program
march in big bands
be physically fit
strong cross country runner
confident in reading maps
comfortable with camping
cleaning a riffle

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what would a girl do it in hitler youth

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league of german maidens
learn to sew
cook
domestic tasks
learn about race and bering a good german mother

30
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what were some alienation parts of hitler youth

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if you were in hitler youth you had to stay loyal to Hitler not to your family. if your family were not ‘as nazi’ as you were then you would feel alinenated

31
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what were the 4 main opposition groups

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former political opponents
the churches
army officers
youth groups

32
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why did the former political groups oppose nazis

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socialists met secretely becuase they were being killed or imprisioned by nazis

33
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what did the political opposition do

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they sabbotages places (factories, railways, army stores), made 1.6 million anti-nazi leaflets by 1936 and met in secret

34
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was politcial opposition sucessful

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no becuase they were broken up by the gestapo and all their activites were small scale so they didn’t do much

35
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why did the churches oppose nazis

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they didnt believe with hitler due to their own morals as christians. they churhc organisations wouldnt speak out agaisnts the nazis due to the concordat signed

36
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what did the churches do to oppose nazis

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protest against nazis killing mentally and physically ill people
pastor niemöller formed an alternative church

37
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were the churches sucessful

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temporarily becuase when the protests happened the nazis stopped it and the other churches which were formed put the pastors in concentration camps

38
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why did the army officers oppose nazis

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they didn’t agree with hitlers plans to invade germanys plan and germany started to loose war so they army started to question hitler

39
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what did army officers do to oppose hitler

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the july bomb plot of 1944 where they placed a bomb in a conference room with hitler in there

40
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were army officers succesful

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no because they did not kill hitler and the nazis revenged on them by killing 5000 people

41
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why did the youth groups oppose nazis

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they didnt agree with hitlers mandatory rules

42
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what did youth groups do to oppose nazis

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they listened to american music
mocked youth nazis
killed the gestapo cheif
excaped prisioners
sheltered army deserters

43
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what was the most inportant part of youth groups

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the theory of nazism - teaching what they believed in and hitler stories

44
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how did hitler youth help families

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it gave them 2 new brown shirts which were very good quality for poor families

45
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what did the school teach children to spot

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to spot identifiable characterisitcs in jews

46
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nazi and women veiws

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nazis had very traditional veiws of women and that they should be a wife and mother

47
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what did hitler want to do with women

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wanted to go back to the ‘traditional veiws’ of women and put women into the tradtitonal way of living

48
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what did nazis do to women

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they eased women out of workplaces so men dominated the state so the women could go care for the family and household

49
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2 ways hitler helped end unemployment

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conscription
public work project

50
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what was the public works project

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a way to employ people to build a network of railways, motorways and more

51
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how did nazis improve life for workers

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strength through joy
beauty of labour

52
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what was the strength through joy program

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a program which gave workers very cheap tickets for cinema and sports as well as trips

53
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what was the beauty of labour movement

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a movement which improved working conditions in factories. It introduced new features such as washing facilities and low cost canteens.

54
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what were wins for the farmers

explain as well

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rich entailed farm law
This not only told banks they could not take away land if the farmers could not pay loans
it also gave the philosophy of ‘Blood and Soil’ which was a belief that the farmers were the basis of Germany’s master race

55
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why did middle class and business people support the nazis

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they were grateful for eliminating the communist threat. They also liked how the Nazis were bringing order to germany. This meant big companies no longer had to worry about trade unions and strikes

56
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who were the 2 econmists

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Dr Schat
Hermann Göering

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