What was it like to live in Nazi Germany? (2)

Question 1

What did the hitler youth entail for boys

• activites
• membership in 1936?

Answer 1

• devoted time to AH
• had to be physically fit
• 1.2 mill
• learnt to read maps + shooting ect

Question 2

League of german girls

• what year and who was it compulsory for
• how many members in 1936?
• how many % left to get married

Answer 2

1939 - cumpulsory for 10-18 ( ger citezens, ethnic ger, hereditory desease free)

• 1936 - 3 mill
• 80% left married and fam

Question 3

how were schools organised and what did schools teach (7)

Answer 3

• indoctrination
• organised to gain support
• 1920’s hardship bc of jews
• hist gained AH supporters
• Bio learned about aryan race
• long pe hours
• girls learn about mothers and housework

Question 4

Youth movement at home…

Answer 4

• youths attracted to movements
• pro nazi = alienated from parents
• more loyal 2 ah than fan
• encouraged to tell if parents criticise

Question 5

why were youths important to hitler

Answer 5

• future of germany
• needed to ensure loyalty
• youth propaganda and show leading example

Question 6

Swing movement (3)

Answer 6

• went against nazi guidelines - looks
• talked about sex
• went to parties + foreign music

Question 7

Edelweiss pirates (4)

Answer 7

• 14-17 taunted Ah youth groups
• free attitude 2 sex
• Dec ‘42 - Gestapo brok up 739 youths
• ‘44 Cologne riots = publicly hung

Question 8

What was womens role in society

Answer 8

house wife

mother

Question 9

Why was there resentment 2wards working woman in 1930’s

Answer 9

• nazis called this = untraditional

Question 10

What was the birth rate in 1933 and what was it in 1939 - give a possible reason for a rise in B rate

Answer 10

1933- 15 per 1000
1939- 20 per 1000
financial incentive for fam with more than 4 children.

Question 11

Where nazi policies towards women successful (yes) (2)

Answer 11

most stayed home with fan = ideal societal role

- many kept out of work

Question 12

Nazi policy towards women unsuccessful (2)

Answer 12

• women needed for war effort (against policy)

- large family scheme was unsuccessful

Question 13

Who benefited from nazis 1933-1945 (5)

Answer 13

managers - car

• ah youth
• women (with babies)
• large famers
• industrial workers (strength through joy + beauty of labour)

Question 14

unemployment in 1932 compared to 1938

Answer 14

1932= 5.6 mill
1938= 2 mill

Question 15

Who did not benefit from nazi rule (6)

Answer 15

• jews
• church - women
• samll farmers / business
• mental ill
• conscription

Question 16

when did foot rationing commence

Answer 16

septemeber 1939

Question 17

when were their food shortages

Answer 17

1942

Question 18

how many were forcibly sterilised ‘33-‘45

Answer 18

• 300,000

Question 19

What happened in ‘43 after allied raids

Answer 19

housing shortages

Question 20

when did compulsory conscription commence

Answer 20

1935

Question 21

1939 (war effect lives) - 2

Answer 21

• rationing

- Ah control east Eu

Question 22

1941 - war effect lives - 2

Answer 22

• heating cut back

- longer hours worked

Question 23

1942- war effect lives -6

Answer 23

• final soln
• women drafted to work
• evacuees
• moral loss
• resedentional/ idus bombed
• cibillians terrories - submission

Question 24

1945 - war effect lives - 4

Answer 24

• feb dresden bomb- 35,000-150,000 killed in 2 days
• peeps desperate
• 3.5 mill died
• low food supplies

Question 25

What did conscription provide - 4

Answer 25

• reduced unemployment
• econ recovery - moral + national pride boost
• engineers + designers = new opportunities

Question 26

Sept 1933 for the famers - Why were they happy?

Answer 26

• reich food estate - distributed produce across german markets
• Reich entitles farm land - bank couldn’t seize it
• peasant farmers = ger backbone

Question 27

What were the famers unhappy about (3)

Answer 27

1) bank unwilling to lend money
2) only eldest child cld inherit farm
3) rural depopulation rose by 3% in 1930’s= opp of nazi aim.

Question 28

how did nazi workers benefit?

Answer 28

• propaganda praised workers
• beetle = peoples car
• beauty of labour

Question 29

what was beauty of labour

Answer 29

movement to improve working conditions + washing facilities in factories + low cost canteens for workers

Question 30

STRENGTH THROUGH JOY (4)

Answer 30

1) state controlled leisure org
2) provided activities for Ger works (motivator)
3) activities = concerts, plays, holidays, trips
4) beetle scheme

Question 31

workers downside (5)

Answer 31

• lost SDP- main party
• lost trade unions
• couldn’t strike
• low wages
• working cond worst than depression