The Experiences of Germans under the Nazis pt 2

Question 1

How did Nazi propoganda affect Newspapers?

Answer 1

Nazis controlled most newspapers, censorships

Question 2

How did Nazi propoganda affect films?

Answer 2

Made people watch propoganda befoer film began. Weren’t allowed to enter the cinema after the propoganda adverts began

Question 3

How did Nazi propoganda affect radio?

Answer 3

By 1939, 70% had radio } Hitler’s speeches broadcasted on it

Question 4

How did Nazi propoganda affect festivals and celebrations?

Answer 4

Nuremberg Rallies } week long rallies with thousands involved

Question 5

How did Nazi propoganda affect culture: music, theatre, and literature?

Answer 5

• Music: jazz and blues banned
• communist and anti-nazi books abnned
• theatre concentrated on German history and political drama + had cheap tickets

Question 6

How did Nazi propoganda affect architecture and art?

Answer 6

Bauhaus banned. Art and architecture had to have classical style

Question 7

Who was in charge of Propoganda?

Answer 7

Josef Goebbels

Question 8

Who were the Youth opposition groups?

Answer 8

Swing Youth and the Edelweiss Pirates

Question 9

What did the Edelweiss Pirates do?

Answer 9

• mainly middle class boys who sang banned songs
• beat up hitler youth

Question 10

What did the swing youth do?

Answer 10

Wore American clothes + listened to Jazz

Question 11

How effective was youth opposition?

Answer 11

Nazis not threatened: activity limited to grafitti, anti-Nazi jokes, attacking Hitler Youth and listening to banned music

Question 12

Why was opposition to the Nazis limited?

Answer 12

• many Germans pleased with Nazi changes
• German workers feared losing their jobs if they expressed opposition
• Propoganda and censorship ensured many Germans found out very little about bad things that were happening

Question 13

What were Nazi racial beliefs?

Answer 13

Aryans were the superior race, ideally tall, blond, blue-eyed and white

Question 14

Give 3 examples of Nazi race policies

Answer 14

1. Homosexuals sent to concentration camps or prison or subjected to medical experimentation
2. Those with mental or physical disabilities sterilised according to new law: Prevention of Hereditarily diseased Offspring (1933)
3. After 1933, Many gypsies arrested and sent to concentration campd

Question 15

Why was the Jewish Population persecuted under the Nazis?

Answer 15

• Hitler associated Jewish population with communism
• longstanding mistrust of Jews: blamed for Black Death, Germany’s defeat in WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles
• many jealous of Jewish success
• Nazi propoganda

Question 16

Name 3 examples of Jewish persecution

Answer 16

• 1933: SA organised boycott of Jewish shops and painted yellow stars on doors of these shops
• 1937: Jewish passports stamped with the J
• 1939: Jewish people banned from having businesses

Question 17

What were the Nuremberg laws?

Answer 17

• Law for Protection of German Blood and Honour
• Reich Citizenship Law

Question 18

Explain both of the Nuremberg laws

Answer 18

• Reich law on citizenship: Jewish People’s German citizenship removed. Also needed to have a yellow star sewn onto thier clothes for easy identification
• Law for Protection of German Blood and Honour: Jewish people banned from ‘marrying’ German citizens

Question 19

When did Kristalnacht occur and what happened?

Answer 19

9-10th November 1938: 400 synagogues and 7500 shops destroyed, 91 Jews killed and 30,000 sent to concentration camps

Question 20

What was the impact of war on the homefront?

Answer 20

• rationing introduced to help everyone get what they all needed for food an clothes
• role of women changed from housewives to workers
• hot water allowed twice a week

Question 21

What was ‘total war’?

Answer 21

Every part of German society would be geared to the war effort making bombs, growing food, caring for the ill of fighting

Question 22

What were the effects of allied bombing?

Answer 22

• many left cities or were evacuated
• at the end of the war, almost as many German civillians had died as soldiers involved in fighting

Question 23

What was the Final Solution?

Answer 23

Mass murder of all Jews in German territory by bringing them to extermination camps. Other groups also persecuted here

Question 24

When was the Final Solution finalised?

Answer 24

Wannsee Conference in 1942

Question 25

What were the causes of the July Bomb Plot?

Answer 25

• Von Stauffenberg wounded fighting in 1942: lost left eye and right arm
• he hated brutality of SS and suffering of the German army in the USSR

Question 26

Who was involved in the plot?

Answer 26

Dr Goerdeter and Count Von Stauffenberg

Question 27

What was the plan of the July Bomb Plot?

Answer 27

VS took bombs in a briefcase to a military conference in Rastenberg. Left room to make an urgent call to Berlin + left briefcase under the table. However, the briefcase was kicked to the other side of the table

Question 28

What were the effects of the July Bomb Plot?

Answer 28

• 4 killed, Hitler escaped
• Hitler became increasingly paranoid
• Leading plotters arrested and executed, another 5000 killed

Question 29

When did the july bomb plot occur?

Answer 29

20th July 1944