Part 3 - The Experience of the Germans under the Nazis Flashcards
When was the Labour Service (RAD) set up?
1933
How many people did the public work scheme give work to?
100,000
From 1936, how much of the government’s spending was focused on armaments?
2/3
How many people did ‘invisible unemployment’ measures take out of the unemployment figures?
1,500,000
How many members were in the DAF by 1939?
20,000,000
By how much did farmers’ wages increase between the years of 1933 and 1936?
41%
By how many hours did the working hours increase due to the Nazis economic policies?
49 hours a week
How did military spending increase between the years of 1933 and 1939
1.9 million marks to 32.3 million marks
By 1939, Germany still depended on foreign imports for how much of its raw materials
1/3
By 1944 how many foreign workers had been brought to Germany as slave labour in the factories?
Around seven million
How many homes were destroyed as a result of the allied bombing campaigns?
2 million
What percentage of university places went to women?
10%
In what year were women banned from being judges and lawyers?
1936
How many babies were born as a result of the Lebensborn movement?
8,000
How many women attended the Women’s Enterprise training by 1939?
Around 3,500,000
How many women worked in agriculture during the war?
Over 6 million
How many babies were born in 1939?
1,413,000
What percentage of teachers were sacked in 1933?
20%
When was the Hitler Youth set up?
1922
By 1939, what percentage of German boys aged 14 and over were members of the Hitler Youth?
90%
What were the proportions of Catholics and Protestants in Germany?
32% Catholic, 60% Protestant
What fraction of Jehovah’s Witnesses were killed in concentration camps?
1/3
What were the figures to do with Jews and their jobs in society (in 1933, even though they made up less than 1% of the population)?
17% of bankers, 10% of doctors and 16% of lawyers
When were the boycotts of Jewish businesses, banned from jobs/mixing?
1933
When were the Nuremberg Laws?
1935
When were the further laws limiting Jewish people’s social rights?
1938
When was Kristallnacht?
November 1938
How much money was fined during Kristallnacht?
1 billion marks
When was the Wannsee Conference?
20th January 1942
How many firms used Auschwitz prisoners to build their goods?
Around 150
In October 1943, how many prisoners escaped from Sohibor camp in Poland?
600
How many (active?) officers made up the Gestapo?
15,000
How many death penalty crimes were there in 1943?
46, up from 3 in 1933
When did the Nazis ceremonially burn thousands of books?
1933
What fraction of newspapers did the Nazis own by 1939?
2/3
How many Germans owned a radio by 1939?
70%
How many attempts were there on Hitler’s life?
Around 50
How many Edelweiss Pirates were there?
Around 2000 but never united
