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1
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At the beginning of the war, what was the Nazi’s aims?

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To keep the German public onside

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When were there decrees issuing food rationing?

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August 1939

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3
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What did you need a permit to buy?

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Clothes

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What did food rationing and permits cause?

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Panic buying

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Did the rationing system work effectively between 1939 and 1941 and why?

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Yes - the Nazis could exploit new countries for food e.g Russia for grain

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What invasion in 1941 caused rations to be reduced like meat from 500g to 400g?

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Invasion of Russia

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What is the first phase of the war, from September 1939 to June 1941?

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Blitzkreig

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8
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Which countries did Bitzkreig contain?

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Poland and other European countries

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9
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Between January 1940 and June 1941, how many major speeches did Hitler make?

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9

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In Blitzkreig, what was the morale like?

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Pretty okay - sweeping victories were presented on the news and Hitler was presented as a military genius

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11
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When did Germany invade Russia after Blitzkreig, that was later halted by the Red Army in November 1941?

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June 1941

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12
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When did Germany declare war after Blitzkreig on the USA?

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December 1941

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13
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When was the ‘spreading war’?

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June to December 1941

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Which invasion in June 1941 caused a crusade against ‘Jewish-Bolshevism’ and raised public morale?

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USSR

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What did the SD find about public morale in the ‘spreading war’?

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People believed the war would go on for years

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What during the ‘spreading war’ undermined the Nazi propaganda?

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Letters from soldiers that denoted hopelessness and also the power of the Soviet Union

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During the ‘spreading war’ as a result of decreased morale, what conspiracy was used as a scapegoat for the continuing war?

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A Jewish international conspiracy to destroy Third Reich + Aryan Race

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When was the ‘turning of the tide’, after the ‘spreading war’?

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January 1942-January 1943

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19
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During which part of the war did Germany start to lose against the USSR?

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‘turning of the tide’

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During the ‘turning of the tide’, which two things disillusioned people to the realities of war?

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Rising casualty figures

Letters from soldiers

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What thing by Goebbel’s during the ‘turning of the tide’ deepened disillusionment?

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Appeal for people to collect winter clothes for soldiers

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What did the SD report in January 1942 during the ‘turning of the tide’?

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‘Faith in the Fuhrer is unshakeable’

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What event in January 1943 caused a defeat of propaganda and a rise in war weariness among the German public during the ‘turning of the tide’?

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Stalingrad

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What began in February 1943 and lasted until the end of the war in May 1945?

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Total War

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25
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Who’s total war speech in 1943 was welcomed?

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Goebbels’

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26
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What began to decline during total war?

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Hitler myth

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27
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Which events during total war decreased morale?

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Failure of U-boat campaign
D-Day June 1944
Bombing
Liberation of Paris in August 1944

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Which events during total war increased morale?

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D-Day June 1944 Goebbel’s secret retaliation with weapons

Use of V1 and V2 missiles in 1944-1945

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What did an SD report in August 1944 during ‘total war’ state?

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‘most compatriots, even those whose belief has hitherto between unshaken, have lost all faith in the Fuhrer’

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30
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When did Allied mass bombing begin, which started in Lubeck?

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March 1942

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31
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How many German cities were attacked by bombing in 1943?

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43

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32
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How many times was Hamburg bombed between 25th July and 3rd August 1943?

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7

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33
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What did the police report from Hamburg in July 1943 state?

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‘nowhere displayed signs of panic’

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34
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After Lubeck in March 1942, what did the people do?

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Open their shops

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35
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Despite bombing, how long did German production last until?

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The end of 1944

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36
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What did different parts of the elite believe about the war?

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Some believed Nazi regime was evil
Some were patriotic but believed Hitler was leading Germany to destruction
Some were traditional aristocratic conservatives who wanted a return to an authoritarian government
Some opposed Nazis because of the disturbing treatment of others

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37
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Which member of the elite opposed the Nazi regime because of the treatment of others?

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Helmut von Mulke

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What in September 1939 imposed wage reduction, ans banned the payment of bonuses and Sunday work and night shifts?

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Decree on the conversion of the whole german economy onto a war footing

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39
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Because of increased abseentism because of the decree in September 1939, what happened in October 1939?

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Wages restored to pre war levels
Payment of bonuses reintroduced
However, wage rates not allowed to increased

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Because of total war, what happened in August 1944?

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Ban on holidays
Working week of 60 hours
Payment for overtime abolished

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If workers didn’t conform to the total war measures, what could happen to them?

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Could have reserved statis removed = conscription to armed forces and even the Eastern front

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42
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If you had good attendance records during total war, what did you get?

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Extra rations

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43
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By May 1944, how much of the workforce was women?

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51%

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44
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What resulted in 6.4 million women being in employment and making up 37.4% of the labour force?

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Four Year Plan

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What did Hitler refuse to sanction in 1940 becuase of ideology?

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More women working in industry

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46
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What did the regime provide so that women didn’t have to work?

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Benefits

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47
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Did the amount of women in the workforce increase or decline between 1939 and 1941?

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Decline

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48
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In June 1941, what did Goering issue a decree about?

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Women had to work if they had already given up work and didn’t have children or they had to give up a family allowance

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49
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What did Goering’s decree in June 1941 spark?

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Class resentment because the limited amount of women who were eligible were middle class

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As a result of Goering’s 1941 decree, how many women were sent to the armaments factories?

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130,000

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51
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What defeat in January 1943 caused women between 17-45 to have to register for work?

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Stalingrad

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52
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How many women were sent to work by June 1943 because of the defeat at Stalingrad?

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Fewer than half a million

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By 1945, how much of the workforce were women, because Hitler was forced to agree to allow women older than 45 into the workforce?

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60%

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54
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In the early years of the war, were young people conscripted or did they continue their work in the BDM and Hitler Youth as usual?

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Weren’t conscripted continued as normal

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55
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In 1940, at what age was a young person viable to be conscripted to the armed forces?

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19

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56
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In 1943, at what age was a young person eligble to be conscripted?

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17

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57
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By November 1942, how many military camps were there for the Hitler Youth?

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120

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58
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In January 1943 because of total war, 16 and 17 year old boys were conscripted into what?

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Luftewaffe
Naval auxillaries
Air defence duties

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59
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In 1945, at what age was a young person viable to be conscripted?

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16

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60
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By the end of the war, young children as young as what were being conscripted into the Volkssturm?

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12

61
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Despite the decree in September 1939, when did Germany actually reach a state of full mobilisation?

A

1942

62
Q

In the years 1939 to 1941 what did Germany suffer shortages of?

A

Weapons and equipment

63
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When did shortages of war and equipment begin to hinder the German war effort?

A

1941

64
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Why was Hitler not economically prepared for war in 1939?

A

He thought it would begin in 1941 with Operation Barbarossa

65
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When was the Luftwaffe meant to be completed and the built up of the navy?

A

1942

1944-1945

66
Q

What else showed that Germany wasn’t economically prepared for war in 1939, because it focused on the increasing of iron and steel production, investing machine tools, and developing alternatives to oil and rubber?

A

Four Year Plan

67
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What did the proportion of labour force in armaments production grow from between September 1939 to January 1941?

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21% to 55%

68
Q

Who’s leadership was ineffective, because he had poor relations with leaders of the military, banks and companies, and was busy building his own economic empire?

A

Goering

69
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By 1941, what became apparent?

A

Goering’s failures

70
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Who replaced Goering as economic minister in 1942?

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Architect Alber Speer

71
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How did Albert Speer rationalise production?

A

Central coordination of labour, equipment and materials to armaments factories
Concentration of productino in fewer factories and on a narrower range of standardised products
Greater use of mass production techniques
24 hours a day factories

72
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Between 1941 and 1943, German aircraft production increased by what percentage?

A

200%

73
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Between 1941 and 1943, German tank production increased by what percentage

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250%

74
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Because of Speer’s rationalised production method, what did the production of the Messerschmit Bf 109 increase to?

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1000 per month after being 180 per month

75
Q

The gains in production occurred under Speer despite what between 1943 and 1944?

A

Bombinh

76
Q

How did bombing have an impact on production?

A

Supply lines damaged
Factories dispersed
Worker morale affected

77
Q

In January 1945, what did the ministry of armaments calculate in regards to tanks, aircraft, and lorries?

A

35% less tanks
31% less aircraft
45% fewer lorries

78
Q

From 1940 to 1942, foreign workers were mainly recruited from where?

A

Western Europe

79
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What event in October 1941 caused prisoners of war in the country invaded to be used as slave labour?

A

Occupation of USSR

80
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By December 1941, how many foreign workers were employed in Germany?

A

4 million

81
Q

From 1942 to 1945, which person who led the plenipotentiary General for Labour Allocation rounded up and transported 2.8 million workers from Eastern Europe?

A

Fritz Sauckel

82
Q

By 1944, in total how many foreign workers and people in occupied countries doing work for Germany were there?

A

14 million

83
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By 1944, foreign labour made up what fraction of the labour force?

A

1/4

84
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Between what time period was the ‘final solution’ to the ‘Jewish Problem’?

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1942 to 1945

85
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Which operation made it clear that the war would be one of racial annihilation?

A

Barbarossa/USSR

86
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Why was the final solution implemented?

A

Because Germany were beginning to lose the war

87
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Was the Wansee Conference in January 1942 the place where the decision was made to exterminate the Jews?

A

No

88
Q

Who were not at the Wansee Conference in January 1942?

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Heinrich and Himmler

89
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After the Wansee Conference, what changed?

A

Deportations no longer to vague destinations but to specific camp places
Could therefore do mass killings

90
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What fraction of people from the holocaust were killed from February 1942 (after the Wansee Conference) and February 1943

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More than half

91
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What caused mass killings to be accelerated and prioritised over military as well as having stronger propaganda?

A

Failings in war 1942-1943

92
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What is an example of intensified propaganda in Spring 1943?

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Goebbel’s ‘total war’ speech

93
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When were there surges of anti-Jewish propaganda after the Wansee Conference?

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Autumn 1943 after bombing raids and red army in the east

Summer 1944 after allied landings in France

94
Q

Where were Jewish Ghettos destroyed during the final solution?

A

Minsk

Vilnius

95
Q

When did extermination camps come into prominence?

A

End of 1941

96
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What fraction of the people in the holocaust died in Auschwitz?

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1/5

97
Q

How many people died in the extermination camp Chelmno?

A

145,000

98
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How many Jews were exterminated at Belzec, as well as several thousand gypsies?

A

Half a million

99
Q

In October 1943, how many Jews escaped from Sobibor?

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800

100
Q

Which ‘extermination camp’ also produce munitions and other goods for the war effort, as well as forced labour?

A

Auschwitz

101
Q

About 10,000 what resisted the holocaust in Lithuania in early 1942?

A

Jewish Partisans

102
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In the General Government of Poland, which Nazi governor had to commit large security forces to dealing with over 20 Partisan groups?

A

Hans Frank

103
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Who led the Jewish resistance group that became a permanent community of 1200 Partisans and provided refuge for Jews escaping from Ghettos?

A

Bielski Brothers

104
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Where was there a large rising in January 1943, despite the fact that 80% of Jews there had already been sent to the camp at Treblinka?

A

Warsaw Ghetto

105
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How were the Jews who revolted at Warsaw put down in May 1943?

A

2000 troops
Heavy weapons
Air strikes

106
Q

What is the estimated range of the people who died in the 1944 death marches?

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250,000 to 400,000

107
Q

How can Hitler be blamed for the holocaust?

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Fanatical anti-semitism
Fuhrer who dominated power and propoganda
Germans supported him or were too repressed to significantly oppose him

108
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How can Hitler not be blamed for the holocaust?

A

Industrialised murder required decisions of many Nazi officials
Millions of people helped

109
Q

Who could be blamed for the holocaust?

A 
Hitler
Goebbels
Bormann
Heydrich
Himmler
Eichmann
Goering
The German people
110
Q

Who were the Eidelweiss Pirates and when were they primarily operating?

A 
Working class young people 14-18
Rhineland and Ruhr
111
Q

Who were anti-Hitler Youth and tried to avoid conscription?

A

Eidelweiss Pirates

112
Q

‘They hate all discipline and thereby place themselves in opposition to the community. However, they are not politically hostile but, as a result of their composition, they are also criminal and antisocial.’ Who is this describing?

A

Eidelweiss Pirates

113
Q

Who went on independent expeditions in the countryside and sang banned Hitler Youth songs?

A

Eidelweiss Pirates

114
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In 1944, which group of the Eidelweiss Pirates became linked with an underground group that helped army deserters, escaped prisoners of war, forced labourers and concentration camps and obtained supplies by attacking military depots?

A

Cologne Group

115
Q

When did the Gestapo break up 28 groups of the Eidelweiss Pirates?

A

7th December 1942

116
Q

Who were hanged publicly in November 1944?

A

Leaders of the Eidelweiss Pirates

117
Q

What were the swing youth motivated by, according to the Ministry of Justice report?

A

‘desire to have a good time’

118
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What did the swing youth do?

A

Listen to American and British jazz and swing
Wore English style clothes
Adopted Jazz ‘negro’ music which rejected Nazi values

119
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What did Himmler want to do to the leaders of the Swing Youth?

A

Send them to concentration camps for 2 or 3 years

120
Q

Who were the White Rose Group, who were they led by, and what was their target?

A

political movement
led by hans and sophie scholl
educated middle class

121
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Who were the White Rose Group supported by?

A

Professor Kurt Huber

122
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Who were the White Rose Group influenced by?

A

Catholic theologians like Bishop Galen

Ideas of individual freedom and personal responsibility

123
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During which time period did the White Rose Group issue six pamphlets, mainly distributed in Munich?

A

1942-1943

124
Q

In February 1943, what did the White Rose Group do?

A

Painted anti-Nazi slogans like ‘Hitler Mass Murderer’ on buildings

125
Q

Who were eventually caught by the Gestapo and executed?

A

White Rose Group

126
Q

Who in 1939 gave full support to the Nazi war aims and supported the invasion of the USSR in 1941, thus meaning individual members of this had to organise independently?

A

Roman Catholic Church

127
Q

Who condemned the euthanasia programme in a sermon in 1940, and thus caused the halting of it?

A

Bishop Galen

128
Q

Was Bishop Galen executed for his sermon in 1940?

A

No, but 3 other Catholic priests who participated were

129
Q

Who from the Catholic Church condemned the killing of prisoners of war and was thus placed under surveillance by the Gestapo?

A

Archbishop Frings

130
Q

What was the only Christian body in Germany to protest publicly about the treatment of Jews?

A

Protestant confessional church of Prussia

131
Q

In 1943, which Protestant called for wider resistance to the treatment of Jews by Christian churches?

A

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

132
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Since 1940, which protestant had been banned from public speaking and thus didn’t have a wide audience in Germany?

A

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

133
Q

Which protestant was arrested in 1943 and executed in 1945?

A

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

134
Q

What undermined communist resistance to the regime in 1939?

A

Nazi Soviet Pact

135
Q

What sparked communist resistance to the regime in 1941?

A

Invasion of USSR

136
Q

At the time of the USSR invasion 1941, how many underground cells did the KPD have operating in Berlin?

A

89

137
Q

What was the KPD’s main means of spreading their ideas?

A

issuing leaflets

138
Q

By the end of 1943, how many communists cells in Berlin had been destroyed?

A

22

139
Q

How many meetings did the Kreisau Circle hold between 1942 and 1943 before they were broken up by the Gestapo?

A

3

140
Q

Who continued to discuss acting against the regime in July 1944?

A

General Beck
Karl Goerdeler
Von Hassell

141
Q

What did Beck and Goerdeler try to get senior army generals to do before July 1944?

A

Arrest Hitler

142
Q

Who did Beck and Goerdeler make contact with before July 1944?

A

British Government

143
Q

When was there a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb?

A

March 1943

144
Q

What happened that warned army generals that the Gestapo was gonna find out about the conspiracy?

A

Kreisau circle + Bonhoeffer arrested

145
Q

What operation in 1944 wanted to have a military coup that took over Berlin after Hitler was assassinated?

A

Operation Valkyrie

146
Q

If operation Valykrie had succeeded, which parties would’ve made the new Government?

A

Centre party
SPD
Conservatives
non-party representatives

147
Q

Because of Operation Valkyrie, how many people were arrested and executed?

A

7000

5700

148
Q

What did the failure of the July bomb plot lead to?

A

army being placed under SS control

History: Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-1945 (6 decks)

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