Worker's Response

Question 1

What were these measures implemented to secure?

Answer 1

workers’ loyalty or acquiescence

Question 2

Tim Mason’s view?

Answer 2

nazi social propaganda was an unmitigated failure among industrial workers

Question 3

Ian Kershaw’s view?

Answer 3

Volksgemeinschaft had little impact on changing behavioural patterns which continued to be determined by material conditions

Question 4

Did Volksgemeinschaft achieve its goal?

Answer 4

did not achieve it s revolutionary goal of destroying class division and religious loyalties

but succeeded in creating a heightened awareness sufficient to secure the regime a degree of stability and social integration

Question 5

Did Nazi social policy please the petty bourgeosie and formally unemployed?

Answer 5

they viewwed the volkgemeinschaft not in terms of a radical restructuring of society involving fundamental social change but as an acceptable insurance policy against the alternative Marxist-leninism

Question 6

What was the workers’ general impression of Volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 6

recognised cynical intentions

prepared to take advantage of its benefits and give the regime some credit for introducing them

Question 7

the tendency of the authorities to resort to coercion during the war substantiates what argument put forwards by historians?

Answer 7

the limited effectiveness of nazi propaganda and the collapse of any form of consensus in germany

Question 8

Weltanschauung

Answer 8

Nazi world view - community before individual

Question 9

To what extent was community before the individual achieved?

Answer 9

rather than destroy old loyalties it was eough to suspend such allegiance with the ethos of a Nazi Weltanschauung

Question 10

What impact did the war have on Volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 10

it produced a decline in the standing of the party but not hitler
german society did not disintegrate

Question 11

What type of support did Volksgemeinschaft guarantee?

Answer 11

passive support for the regime

Question 12

How are historians inconsistent in analysing consent and resistance in the reich compared to the rest of europe?

Answer 12

it may be that historians are applying different criteria when analysing the bases of consent and resistance in the third reich than to other european societies of the period

during the 1930s and 1940s such discontent can be found in all modern industrial nation,

not unique to just germany