Topic 5: Nazi Economic, Social and Racial Policy

Question 1

By 1933 what was the number of people unemployed ?

Answer 1

6 million

Question 2

What did Hitler promise if he became chancellor ?

Answer 2

To create jobs

Question 3

What was the RAD ?

Answer 3

To provide young men with manual labour jobs
Compulsory for men aged 18-25 to serve for at least 6 months
In 1939 it was extended for women
Workers lived in camps , wore uniform, received very low pay

Question 4

What sort of schemes did Hitler introduce ?

Answer 4

Road building programme
public works schemes
School, house and hospital construction

Question 5

What did invisible unemployment hide ?

Answer 5

Jews dismissed from jobs
Unmarried men
Women dismissed from jobs
People in concentration camps

Question 6

What did rearmament do ?

Answer 6

Rebuilded the army

Question 7

What sort of things did Hitler do to achieve rearmament ?

Answer 7

Conscription

Question 8

What did the German labour front do (DAF) ?

Answer 8

Gave workers and employers high wages, job security, social and leisure programmes

Prevented workers and employers from going on strike

Question 9

What was the Volkswagen scheme ?

Answer 9

Gave workers the chance to buy their own car

Question 10

What happened to people who signed up to the Volkswagen scheme ?

Answer 10

They never got their cars and no money was refunded

Question 11

What did the KdF do ?

Answer 11

Tried to improve the leisure time o German workers by sponsoring a wide rage of leisure and cultural trips

Tired to improve working conditions

Question 12

How many people went to KdF on their holiday in 1938 ?

Answer 12

10 million

Question 13

What was the political progress of women during the 1920s ?

Answer 13

Women over 20 could vote

Question 14

How did women economically progress in the 1920s ?

Answer 14

Women took up careers in professions

Question 15

How did women socially progress in the 1920s ?

Answer 15

Ent out unescorted, drunk, smoked, slim and fashion conscious and commonly wore short skirts and high heels

Question 16

What was the Nazis ideals of women ?

Answer 16

No make up
Blonde
Flat shoes and full skirt
Did not smoke
Not go out to work
Did all household duties
No interest in politics

Question 17

What were some changes under the nazis ?

Answer 17

Marriage and family ( promoted large families )
Work (children, kitchen, church )
appearance ( keep healthy wear there hair in a bun and plaits )

Question 18

How did the nazis control education ?

Answer 18

Textbooks 9 ( nazis view )
Teachers ( teachers swore on oath to the nazis teacher league )
Lessons ( began and ended saluting ‘hail Hitler’ )
Curriculum ( changed to prepare students for future roles )

Question 19

What did the Hitler youth aim to achieve ?

Answer 19

To make all young students dedicated nazi believers

Question 20

In what year was Hitler youth made compulsory ?

Answer 20

1939

Question 21

How many members were in the Hitler youth by 1939 ?

Answer 21

7 million

Question 22

What did boys do in the Hitler youth ?

Answer 22

Practised marching
Map reading
Military skills

Question 23

What did girls do in the Hitler youth ?

Answer 23

Marches
Map reading
Military skills
Domestic skills

Question 24

How did the nazis treat non-German parties such as Jews ?

Answer 24

Treated them like second-class citizens

Question 25

What did the nazis believe about aryans ?

Answer 25

Pure race
Blonde
Blue eyed
Tall
Lean
Athletic
Master race

Question 26

What did nazis propaganda portray Jews as ?

Answer 26

Evil moneylenders

Question 27

How was anti-semitism portrayed in schools ?

Answer 27

Put anti-Semitic material into every classroom

Question 28

What year were all Jewish children expelled from German schools ?

Answer 28

1938

Question 29

What year was the boycott of all Jewish shops and businesses ?

Answer 29

1933

Question 30

What year were Jews banned from public places ?

Answer 30

1934

Question 31

In what year were Jews no longer drafted into the army ?

Answer 31

1935

Question 32

In what year were professional activities of Jews banned ?

Answer 32

1936

Question 33

What was the date of kristallnacht ?

Answer 33

9th November 1938

Question 34

what were the events of kristallnacht ?

Answer 34

On the 9 November 1938 a polish jew in Paris shot someone
Goebbels used this as an opportunity to protest against Jews

Attacks on Jewish property and 100 Jews killed 20,000 to concentration camps
7,500 Jewish business destroyed

Question 35

what was the aftermath of kristallnacht like ?

Answer 35

Jews were blamed for it and fined 1 billion reichsmarks for reparations
Jews could no longer own businesses
Jews could no longer attend aryan schools