TOPIC 5

Question 1

What were the 3 K’s?

Answer 1

Kinder- Children
Kuche- Kitchen
Kirche- Church

Question 2

What was the Reich citizenship law?

Answer 2

It defined a citizen as a person who was of German or related to German blood

Question 3

What was the Law for the Protection of German blood and German Honour?

Answer 3

It banned marriage and relationships between Jewish people and those considered ‘Aryan’
Children from these relationships were said to undermine the purity of the Aryan race

Question 4

What were the National Labour Service Corps (RAD)?

Answer 4

A compulsory thing for men aged 18-25 to serve in for 6 months.
It was extended to women in 1939 to ‘educate German youth’
Workers were given low pay, wore uniforms, lived in the Labour Service Corps and had military drills
It helped prepare an army as well as a work force

Question 5

What was the German Labour Front? (DAF)?

Answer 5

The Nazis banned trade unions and replaced it with the DAF
22 million members in 1939
Wages were decided and strikes were banned
There were work books of employment history for both employees and employers
Had high wages, job security, social and leisure programmes
DR ROBERT LEY WAS THE LEADER OF THE DAF AND THE KDF

Question 6

What was the Strength through Joy (KdF)?

Answer 6

Aimed to improve the leisure times for workers
Had movies, cinemas, holidays, theatres, museum tours, cruises and sport events
It was set up by the DAF

Question 7

What was the Beauty of Labour (SdA)?

Answer 7

Department of the KdF that tried to improve working conditions (e.g lower noises of machines)
Built canteens, sport facilities and swimming pools
Had better lighting and heating in workplaces
Improvements were made by the workers in their spare time

Question 8

What were the 8 things Nazis did to ‘reduce’ unemployment?

Answer 8

1.) Women and Jews couldn’t work and they didn’t show up on unemployment stats
2.) Rearmament- rearming the nation
3.) Labour Service
4.) Changing stats- part time jobs were classed as full time jobs in the stats
5.) Armed forces- 1.3 million men
6.) Hundreds of thousands were put into prisons and concentration camps.
7.) INVISIBLE UNEMPLOYED- those unemployed (e.g. Jews and women) weren’t counted in unemployment stats
8.) SS and Gestapo- hundreds of thousands of men

Question 9

Why did the Nazis change the education system?

Answer 9

It was easier to indoctrinate children into Nazi ideologies

Question 10

What did teachers have to do and join and what were the stats but 1939?

Answer 10

Swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler
Join the Nazi Teacher’s League
1939- 97% of teachers had joined

Question 11

What was taught in History and why was it taught?

Answer 11

Lost the war because of Jewish spies
Tov- jealousy of other nations
Created hatred for Jews and the Allies
Nationalism

Question 12

What were they taught in Eugenics and why were they taught it?

Answer 12

Aryan superiority
So they can classify others Into categories (e.g. they were taught that all Jews had a crooked nose)

Question 13

Why were there race studies in schools?

Answer 13

To raise the anti-Semitic views and classification skills to identify different races

Question 14

Why were they taught PE?

Answer 14

To be fit and be able to go to war
If you failed PE you would be expelled
If you did extra well, you would be sent to a special school and normally you’d become a member of the SS

Question 15

What were boys taught in the Hitler Youth?

Answer 15

They sang Nazi songs, did athletics, hiking and camping
When they were older, they did military skills, marching and map reading

Question 16

What were girls taught in the League of German Maidens?

Answer 16

League of German Maidens were for girls aged 14-18
Learnt domestic skills for motherhood and marriage
There was less emphasis on military training

Question 17

What were the Nazi expectations of women (name at least 5-10)

Answer 17

No interest in politics
Couldn’t vote
No place in government
No smoking
Stayed at home
Focused on family and children
No working
Household duties (cooking and raising kids)
Leave jobs for marriage (“true life work lies at home”)
No makeup, blondes no diets, no trousers, buns or plaits, athletic and no higher education

Question 18

When were Jewish teachers forbidden to give private tuition?

Answer 18

October 1936

Question 19

When were all Jewish students expelled?

Answer 19

November 1938

Question 20

What caused the Night of the Broken Glass?

Answer 20

A 17yr old Jew shot a Nazi minister
Goebbels “unleashed” the SA and made them wear normal clothes so others would join in due to the anti-semitism

Question 21

How many: synagogues, businesses, Jewish deaths and Jews sent to camps were affected?

Answer 21

267 synagogues
7500 Jewish businesses collapsed
91 Jews dead
30,000 were sent to concentration camps

Question 22

What were the consequences of The Night of the Broken Glass?

Answer 22

Jewish children were expelled
Jews were fined 1 billion Rentenmark for the dmg
Jews couldn’t own businesses or employ workers
Forced to take the blame- allowed Hitler to campaign against them
Forcibly moved away

Question 23

What measures were taken against Jews in 1933?

Answer 23

1.) The SA organised a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses, and thousands of Jewish civil servants, lawyers and uni teachers were sacked
2.) New law excluded Jews from government jobs, Jewish books were burnt (20,000)
3.) Jews were banned from inheriting land

Question 24

What measure was taken against Jews in 1934?

Answer 24

Local councils banned Jews from public areas (e.g. parks, playing fields and swimming pools)

Question 25

What measures were taken against Jews in 1935?

Answer 25

1.) Jews were no longer drafted into the army
2.) Restaurants were closed to Jews all over Germany
3.) Nuremberg laws

Question 26

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 26

A series of measures against Jews passed on the 15th September, 1935. Jews lost their citizenship, the right to vote and the government office. The Law of Protection of German Blood and Honour meant no marriages could be formed between a German citizen and a Jew.

Question 27

What were the measures taken against Jews in 1936?

Answer 27

1.)Professional activities of Jews were banned or restricted (e.g. vets, dentists, accountants, surveyors, teachers and nurses
2.) Deliberate lull in anti-semitism during the Olympics when Germany hosted it, so the outside world would be given a better impression of Germany

Question 28

What was the measure taken against Jews in 1937?

Answer 28

Hitler publicly attacked Jews (not him, but his men)- Jewish businesses were taken over

Question 29

What were the measures taken against Jews in 1938?

Answer 29

1.) Jews had to register possessions, making it easier to take away
2.) Jews had to carry identity cards and Jewish dentists and lawyers couldn’t treat Aryans
3.) Jewish men had to add the name ‘Israel’ to their first names, Jewish women ‘Sarah’. This was to humiliate them
4.) Jewish children were expelled from schools and universities