Other Public Rituals

Question 1

Aswell as Volksgemeinschaft was the regime’s desire for society?

Answer 1

maintain social conformity

Question 2

What did the new series of public rituals do?

Answer 2

celebrate important days in the nazi calendar

Question 3

Volkgenossen?

Answer 3

national comrades

expected to attend the parades and speeches and show their enthusiasm

Question 4

Winterhilfe?

Answer 4

Winter aid
programme for collecting money food and clothing for distressed families who had suffered as a result of the mass unemployment

Question 5

How successful was Winterhilfe?

Answer 5

brought genuine relief

functioned as a means of social integration

Question 6

How did winterhilfe function as a means of social integration?

Answer 6

by encouraging more affluent members of society to aid the poor on the grounds of national and racial affinity

Question 7

Eintopf?

Answer 7

one pot

encouraged families to have one dish for sunday lunch and donate what they had saved to collectors

Question 8

How was eintopf referred to in Nazi propaganda?

Answer 8

the meal of sacrifice for the reich

Question 9

How did propaganda encourage volksgenossen to donate more?

Answer 9

to increase the size of donations as a sign of gratitude to the fuhrer