Part 3 - The Experience of the Germans under the Nazis

Question 1

When was the Labour Service (RAD) set up?

Answer 1

1933

Question 2

How many people did the public work scheme give work to?

Answer 2

100,000

Question 3

From 1936, how much of the government’s spending was focused on armaments?

Answer 3

2/3

Question 4

How many people did ‘invisible unemployment’ measures take out of the unemployment figures?

Answer 4

1,500,000

Question 5

How many members were in the DAF by 1939?

Answer 5

20,000,000

Question 6

By how much did farmers’ wages increase between the years of 1933 and 1936?

Answer 6

41%

Question 7

By how many hours did the working hours increase due to the Nazis economic policies?

Answer 7

49 hours a week

Question 8

How did military spending increase between the years of 1933 and 1939

Answer 8

1.9 million marks to 32.3 million marks

Question 9

By 1939, Germany still depended on foreign imports for how much of its raw materials

Answer 9

1/3

Question 10

By 1944 how many foreign workers had been brought to Germany as slave labour in the factories?

Answer 10

Around seven million

Question 11

How many homes were destroyed as a result of the allied bombing campaigns?

Answer 11

2 million

Question 12

What percentage of university places went to women?

Answer 12

10%

Question 13

In what year were women banned from being judges and lawyers?

Answer 13

1936

Question 14

How many babies were born as a result of the Lebensborn movement?

Answer 14

8,000

Question 15

How many women attended the Women’s Enterprise training by 1939?

Answer 15

Around 3,500,000

Question 16

How many women worked in agriculture during the war?

Answer 16

Over 6 million

Question 17

How many babies were born in 1939?

Answer 17

1,413,000

Question 18

What percentage of teachers were sacked in 1933?

Answer 18

20%

Question 19

When was the Hitler Youth set up?

Answer 19

1922

Question 20

By 1939, what percentage of German boys aged 14 and over were members of the Hitler Youth?

Answer 20

90%

Question 21

What were the proportions of Catholics and Protestants in Germany?

Answer 21

32% Catholic, 60% Protestant

Question 22

What fraction of Jehovah’s Witnesses were killed in concentration camps?

Answer 22

1/3

Question 23

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)?

Answer 23

17% of bankers, 10% of doctors and 16% of lawyers

Question 24

When were the boycotts of Jewish businesses, banned from jobs/mixing?

Answer 24

1933

Question 25

When were the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 25

1935

Question 26

When were the further laws limiting Jewish people’s social rights?

Answer 26

1938

Question 27

When was Kristallnacht?

Answer 27

November 1938

Question 28

How much money was fined during Kristallnacht?

Answer 28

1 billion marks

Question 29

When was the Wannsee Conference?

Answer 29

20th January 1942

Question 30

How many firms used Auschwitz prisoners to build their goods?

Answer 30

Around 150

Question 31

In October 1943, how many prisoners escaped from Sohibor camp in Poland?

Answer 31

600

Question 32

How many (active?) officers made up the Gestapo?

Answer 32

15,000

Question 33

How many death penalty crimes were there in 1943?

Answer 33

46, up from 3 in 1933

Question 34

When did the Nazis ceremonially burn thousands of books?

Answer 34

1933

Question 35

What fraction of newspapers did the Nazis own by 1939?

Answer 35

2/3

Question 36

How many Germans owned a radio by 1939?

Answer 36

70%

Question 37

How many attempts were there on Hitler’s life?

Answer 37

Around 50

Question 38

How many Edelweiss Pirates were there?

Answer 38

Around 2000 but never united