VOLKSGEMEINSCHAFT

Question 1

WORKERS: what was ‘Strength through joy’?

Answer 1

State welfare organisation - support for workers improve conditions and morale
offered incentives and promoted the beauty of labour

Question 2

WORKERS: state paid holidays increased from __ in 1934 to __ in 1938

Answer 2

state paid holidays increased from 2.3mil in 1934 to 10.3mil in 1938

Question 3

WORKERS: how did the Nazis attempt to promote the policy of ‘Mittelstand’?

Answer 3

employers eat in same canteen as workers

court of honours - solve disputes between workers and employer

Question 4

WORKERS: working hours from 1933-39

Answer 4

1933: 43hrs
1939: 47hrs

Question 5

WORKERS: how many were in the DAF by 1939

Answer 5

22mil

Question 6

WORKERS: what did the German Labour Front promise workers?

Answer 6

campaigns - good conditions, better ventilation, hot meals and activities

Question 7

WORKERS: what were public work schemes?

Answer 7

central part of unemployment - 1 bil invested into these schemes - building schools, autobahns

Question 8

WORKERS: what was the Reich Labour Service?

Answer 8

JUNE 1935

Young men to do 6 months of service - poor conditions and pay but absorbed unemployed

Question 9

WORKERS: how did the Nazis positively impact workers? (2)

Answer 9

• most workers earning 20% more in 1939 compared to 1933

- unemployment fell to 2.4mil by 1934

Question 10

YOUTH: why were the youth important?

Answer 10

• important to engrain ideology - despite decline in support still some of the most enthusiastic supporters
• to achieve 100 Year Reich

Question 11

YOUTH: who led Hitler Youth?

Answer 11

von Shirach

Question 12

YOUTH: when did membership of the Hitler Youth become cumpulsory?

Answer 12

March 1939

Question 13

YOUTH: How many were in Hitler Youth by 1939

Answer 13

7.5mil

Question 14

YOUTH: How many were in the Young Girls League?

Answer 14

10k by 1933`

Question 15

YOUTH: key aspects of Hitler Youth

Answer 15

• exciting to demoralised youth
• hiking, camping
• uniform

Question 16

YOUTH: how many Adolf Hitler Schools were there?

Answer 16

10

Question 17

YOUTH: what percentage of Teachers were part of the National Socialist Teachers’ League? Why was this the case

Answer 17

97% - non-nazis sacked

Question 18

YOUTH: limitations of youth policy (2)

Answer 18

• curfews, prohibition alienated youth when they should have been prepared to support
• growth in rebel gangs - swing movement

Question 19

FARMERS: what was banned by the Reich’s farm laws

Answer 19

banned farm division

Question 20

FARMERS: what was the Reich Food Estate

Answer 20

SEP 1933

Set standards/goals - hen had to lay 65 eggs a year

Question 21

WOMEN: by how much did marriage rates increase?

Answer 21

increased by 130k/year between 1922-39

Question 22

WOMEN: by how much did birth rates increase?

Answer 22

increased by 0.5mi/year between 1933-39

Question 23

WOMEN: how many had left unemployment by 1937?

Answer 23

1/6

Question 24

WOMEN: how many members did he German Women’s Enterprise have?

Answer 24

6mil

Question 25

WOMEN: what was the Lebensborn campaign?

Answer 25

• The Spring of Life 1935 - raising perfect little aryans

- abortion banned

Question 26

WOMEN: 3 limitations of the Nazi policy on women

Answer 26

• produced sex imbalance 1:3 - destroyed cult of the German man and paved way for feminism to rise later opposing their aims
• by 1945 one in 6 resorted to prostitution
• war + full employment - women return to workplace - over 10mil by 1939

Question 27

CHURCH: who was Hans Kerrl? (3)

Answer 27

• Ministry of Church Affairs
• involved in movement which removed crucifixes, confiscated church funds etc
• after Pope Pius Letter - Church affairs directly handled by the party

Question 28

CHURCH: 2 key acts of opposition from the Church

Answer 28

March 1937 - Pope Pius XI letter with ‘Deep Anxiety’ to bishops about mistreatment of the Church
1941 Bishop Galen speaks against euthanasia campaign - programme ended