What life was like for people living in Nazi Germany

Question 1

What were the main parts of the Nazi Police State

Answer 1

SS - protection squad

SD - Security service

Gestapo - Secret police

Question 2

What were concentration camps used for at first

Answer 2

Suspected opponents of the Nazis or people in society that were not pure (Jews, gypsies and homosexuals)

Question 3

How was the legal system used

Answer 3

To deliberately find suspected opponents of the Nazis guilty of a crime

Question 4

How did the Nazis reach ‘agreement’ with the catholic church

Answer 4

they signed the concordat in July 1933 which promised the Nazi would not interfere with the catholic church if the catholic church accepted nazi rule

Question 5

How did Hitler try to control protestant christianity

Answer 5

he out one nazi overall in charge of the independent protestant churches

Question 6

Who was in charge of Nazi propaganda

Answer 6

Josef Goebbels

Question 7

How did the Nazis use the press and radio

Answer 7

Censored storied that they didn’t want

Put Hitler’s speeches on the radio

Manufactured a cheap radio called the people’s receiver which meant everyone had access to a radio

Question 8

How did the Nazis use rallies for support

Answer 8

they were made bigger and bigger and filmed to appear spectacular

Question 9

What was the importance of the 1963 olympics for propaganda

Answer 9

They wanted to use they olympics to show off a strong and powerful government. They built a new olympic stadium in Berlin that could hold 110,000 spectators

Question 10

how did the nazis use culture, literature and art to influence and control behaviour

Answer 10

The art of Otto Dix was burnt

They removed thousands of paintings from galleries

They censored and burned books that they did not agree with or what challenged the Nazis

Question 11

What was the pastors emergency league

Answer 11

protestant leaders who did not want a Nazi put in overall control of protestant churches

Question 12

what was the role of pastor martin niemoller

Answer 12

he opposed nazi ideas and rules, for example the ban on Jews becoming christians

his phone was bugged by the gestapo and he was sent to a concentration camp in 1938

Question 13

what catholic opposition was there

Answer 13

increasing regret about the concordat

400 priests were sent to concentration camps

Question 14

what were the limits of church opposition

Answer 14

lots of people stayed silent

many germans still kept going to church

Question 15

what was the role of the edelweiss pirates

Answer 15

youth opposition who wore an edelweiss flower on their coat

they would hand around on street corners and beat up members of the hitler youth

Question 16

what was they role of the swing youth

Answer 16

richer young people who admired american culture and would play swing music in defiance of the nazis who hated it

Question 17

what was the role of thee white rose movement

Answer 17

the white rose group (led by siblings hans and sophie scholl) spread anti-nazi propaganda among students

Question 18

what were the limits of youth opposition

Answer 18

the numbers were low, the different groups were not joined up and many plots and groups were found out about. hand and sophie scholl were executed

Question 19

what was the nazi view on family

Answer 19

women should have a traditional role of raising a family and building a role

the three k’s
kinder, kuche, kirche
children, kitchen, church

Question 20

what were two specific laws that were out in place that affected women

Answer 20

the law for the encouragement of marriage (1933)
this provided money for getting married and then no need to pay it back once a child was born

the 1938 divorce law
a woman could be divorced if she could not have a child

Question 21

how were women specifically encouraged to fulfil their duties

Answer 21

the nazis introduced the mothers cross which was given to mothers depending on the number of children that they had

the lebensborn programme was also introduced. this provided financial aid to women who had children with members of the SS

the nazis also introduced a series of laws to remove women from the workplace

Question 22

that did the nazis want for young people

Answer 22

they wanted young people to be brought up by germans

supporters of the nazi party

to be strong and healthy and to fight in the german armed forces - boys and to have children - girls

Question 23

what were the youth groups for boys

Answer 23

the pompfe for 6-10 year olds

the deutsche jungvolk for 10-14 year olds

the hitler jugend for 14-18 year olds

Question 24

what training did boys receive

Answer 24

they were taught about nazi ideas / were encouraged to report any nazi opponents / they also received military training in using weapons as well as physical training

Question 25

what youth groups existed for girls

Answer 25

the jungmadel for 10-14 year olds

the bund deutscher madel for 14-21 year olds

Question 26

what training did girls receive

Answer 26

they received training in domestic science and housework as well as nazi racial ideas

Question 27

how did the nazis control teachers

Answer 27

1933 law - easy to sack teachers

all teachers had to swear an oath of loyalty to hitler

many teachers were sacked and replaced with SS guards to ensure strict discipline

Question 28

how did the nazis control what children learnt in school

Answer 28

race studies

maths questions would be linked to war strategy

history would teach about the greatness of german past and the injustice of the treaty of versailles

Question 29

why did the nazis hate unemployment

Answer 29

unemployment was politically dangerous for HItler because it could cause people to move away from the nazis towards the communists

hitler also believed the unemployed people were a burden on society and a waste of resources

Question 30

what was the purpose of the labour service (RAD)

Answer 30

to give unemployment purpose by getting them to build roads and drain swaps

it was made compulsory in 1935
it was generally unpopular due to the difficult nature of the work

Question 31

what was the point of the autobahn project

Answer 31

to build new motorways to make germany more connected and put people to work

Question 32

how did rearmament reduce unemployment

Answer 32

it put people in the army as their job

Question 33

who were the invisible unemployed

Answer 33

these people included people in prison, in the army, labour project and concentration camps

Question 34

how did wages and hours worked go up once the nazi state was established

Answer 34

both the average wages of working people and the numbers of hours that they worked increased. the average working week rose from 43 hours in 1933 to 49 in 1939

Question 35

what did the labour front do and not do for workers

Answer 35

did - it set out the rights of workers in the workplace, the maximum length of the working week and minimum pay levels

didn’t - it meant that workers had lost the right to negotiate improvements in pay, the maximum length of the working hours that is set went up by six hours per week and they punished the workers who disrupted production

Question 36

what was the strength through joy

Answer 36

an organisation set up by the nazis to improve the condition of workers
it aimed to make work more enjoyable for workers so that they would be positive about their work and be more productive

Question 37

how was strength through joy just propaganda

Answer 37

it ran a scheme through which workers could provide money per week which would eventually allow them to buy a new Volkswagen car
this proved to be a con and no workers ever actually got a car and did not get their money back

Question 38

how did the beauty of labour affect standards of living

Answer 38

it campaigned to get employers to provide better facilities for workers

it gave employers tax breaks to help with creating these facilities
however workers were often expected to do the work and decorating themselves

Question 39

what was the science of eugenics and racial hygiene

Answer 39

that science that certain races were stronger and worth more than others

Question 40

what was Hitler’s view on the rank order of races

Answer 40

he thought that the aryan race was the master race, other races such as the slavs of eastern europe were subhuman and the worst sub-humans were gypsies and jews
he thought that these last two groups were the unworthy of life

Question 41

why was anti-semitism particularly strong in germany in the 1930’s

Answer 41

germany had been the scapegoat for problems for hundreds of years - going back to medieval times

jews were blamed for the treaty of versailles being signed

some of the big rebel leaders against the kaiser in 1918 had been jewish

they stereotype was jews were rich and most germans were poor

Question 42

how were homosexuals treated

Answer 42

homosexuals were faced with stronger and stronger laws against them
some were sent to concentration camps and the nazis also encouraged the voluntary castration of homosexuals

Question 43

how were people with disabilities treated

Answer 43

the nazis passed the law for the prevention of hereditary diseased offspring in 1933 which made it compulsory for people to be sterilised if they were mentally ill, an alcoholic, deformed, epileptic, deaf or blind

they also decided by 1939 that babies with severe deformities should be killed at birth