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What phrase regarding women did the Nazis adopt and why?

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Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
appealed to conservatives
familiar

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What was the Nazi feeling towards religion?

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not thrilled - church membership competed with Nazi membership

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Why did the Nazis heavily focus on increasing births?

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declining birth rate when came to power
blamed on womens movement and Jewish sabotage

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What was the SS Marriage Order?

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31 December 1931
SS only allowed to marry Aryan women

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What happened to women in the civil service?

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30 June 1933
those with working husbands dismissed

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What was the fitness-to-marry certificate?

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18 October 1935
required to prove racial ‘purity’

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What happened to women working in law?

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excluded 1936

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What was the Mother’s Cross?

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award introduced 1939
awarded on Mothers Day
bronze - 4 children
silver - 6
gold - 8

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What did the Nazis do to Mothers Day?

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national holiday
on Hitlers’ Mother’s birthday
also honoured mothers of deceased soldiers

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When was abortion banned?

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26 May 1933

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What happened to contraceptives?

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banned along with birth control clinics

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What were doctors required to do from 1935 on?

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report all miscarriages
suspected abortions would be investigated by the police

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What abortions were allowed and how many were there?

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Eugenic abortions
1933-1939: 5000

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Who were marriage loans provided to?

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those with fitness-to-marry certificates

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What was provided to help ‘suitable’ poor families?

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grants
school fee payments
transport

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Who determined the ideal image of a woman?

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Bureau for Beauty

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What was the ideal of a woman?

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‘Natural’ beauty
though in 1930s shifted to be more glamourous

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What were women expected to do to improve their ‘natural’ beauty?

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tanning parlours
hormone cream for their breasts
Khasana cosmetics

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How were prostitutes seen?

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morally delinquent

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What happened to prostitutes after the Reichstag fire?

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‘moral police’ arrested thousands of those suspected

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When were brothels reinstated?

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1934

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What happened to suspected prostitutes 1937-1938?

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rounded up and sent for reeducation

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Were women allowed to work?

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some white blouse jobs continued but women were excluded from high levels
eg. skilled doctors became GPs or worked at maternity clinics
women could only teach at the Grundschule

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What did WW2 propaganda push for women?

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‘maternal instinct’ should call for them to help in the workforce temporarily
campaign not done with much effort
women in the workforce only increased 2% during the war

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Who did the Nazis use for labour during the war instead of women?
foreign workers prisoners of war concentration camps
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When were women allowed to join the armed forces and why?
October 1940 in auxiliary or clerical roles to free the men to fight
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When and for which women did it become compulsory to join the armed forces?
all aged 18 - 40 though this was not rigorously enforced
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What did the shortage of men lead to during WW2?
1944: women were trained to operate anti-aircraft guns
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Did the structure of education change from the Weimar?
not for state schools
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What did the Nazi curriculum emphasise?
physical fitness men: fighting women: childbirth filled 15% of curriculum
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What did University corporations become?
Nazi comradeship houses
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What did all University students have to do?
join the Nazi Student Union
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When did Napolas open?
20 April 1933
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What was Napolas?
free elite boarding schools to train boys for government positions
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When was the National Socialist Teachers League set up?
April 1929
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What happened to teachers in 1933?
undesirable ones purged
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When did the Nazis gain control of appointing teachers?
24 September 1935
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How many teachers were in the National Socialist Teachers League and why?
97% almost impossible to get a job otherwise
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Did the Nazis value education?
no anti-intellectual only for indoctrination
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What did the Nazis change some of the normal subjects to talk about?
History: rewritten, focused on Volksgemeinschaft Biology: race and eugenics, motherhood for girls Maths: angles as paths of bombs, sums as costs saved by disposing of undesireables
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What further indoctrinated young people outside of school?
Hitler Youth
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What were the categories within Hitler Youth?
Men: Pimpfen (6-10) Jungvolk (10-14) Jugend (14-18) Women: Jungmadel (10-14) BDM (14-17) Glaube und Schoneit (17-20)
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What did Hitler Youth first open in 1937?
own school focused on physical education taught racial purity, TofV unfairness and importance of having children
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What did Hitler Youth encourage young people to do?
report teachers or parents not conforming to Nazism
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What did the Nazis believe about Germans and culture?
they are the Kulturtrager (culture bearers) corrupted by Jews and intellectuals
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What happened in 1933 to books?
6 April - students began to collect unacceptable books 10 May - torchlight processions, 25,000 books burnt across 35 cities and big towns with press reporting at Opernplatz 40,000 people watched Goebbels denounce their immorality
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What did Goebbels set up to control culture?
22 September 1933 Reich Chamber of Culture
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What did the Reich Chamber of Culture do?
all creative arts had to be registered enforced strict guidelines idealised realism: depictions of simple rural life
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What happened to 'degenerate' art?
banned 1936 exhibited though in Munich 1937
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What did Strength Through Joy do?
organised trips to theatre, opera, art galleries and museums
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What did the 1936 Olympics do?
huge spectacle of German ability - won 89 medals excluded Jewish athletes
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What happened to festivals and holidays?
became increasingly militaristic with parades and propagandist speeches
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Why did the Nazis have big building projects?
to create a powerful impression decorated in swastikas Olympic stadium could hold over 100,000 spectators from all over the world
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Where and when were the Nazi rallies?
Nuremberg August 1933-1938
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When was the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases enacted?
July 1933
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What did the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases mean?
sterilising mentally and physically disabled - extended to include Jews, Gypsies, criminals and black people widened June 1935 to include abortions of the unfit
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How many people were sterilised?
1934-1945: 400,000 people, 5000 of those died
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What did the public know about the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases?
lots - publicised in press and taught in schools
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What did the SA enforce on 1 April 1933?
national boycott of Jewish businesses
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What did the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service do?
excluded non-Aryans from the civil service
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When was the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service passed?
7 April 1933
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What influence did Hindenburg have over the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service?
made amendments to exclude WW1 veterans this was overturned immediately after his death
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When were the Nuremberg Laws passed?
September 1935
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What did the Nuremberg Laws mean?
no citizenship for those with 5+ non-Aryan great-grandparents marriage and sexual relations between German citizens and non-Aryans banned
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How were Jews excluded economically in 1936?
Goering would not give them government contracts reduced access to materials
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How were Jews impacted economically in 1938?
banned from selling property > RM5000 could not leave the country and take money with them
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When was Kristallnacht?
9-10 November 1938
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What happened during Kristallnacht?
turning point of violence towards Jews pogroms 200 deaths 30,000 arrests - sent to concentration camps 260 synagogues burned
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How was Kristallnacht portrayed in the press?
spontaneous reaction to the shooting of Vom Rath (Nazi official abroad)
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What was the punishment for Kristallnacht?
Jews fined RM1 billion for damages warranted the immediate confiscation of property
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When did all Jews have to add Israel or Sara to their names?
1 January 1939
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How many Jews emigrated 1933-1939?
450,000
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What was the 'flight tax'?
30-50% of Jews wealth taken as they emigrated
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How many Jews left Germany after Kristallnacht?
100,000
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What made it even harder for Jews to leave Germany?
other countries set quotas or refused entry
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When and why was the SS Einsatzgruppen set up?
1939 to find Polish resistance
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What did the SS Einsatzgruppen do to Jews?
shot or burned inside Synagogues 1941 became mass murder - forced to dig their own graves and shot in them
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How many Jews did the SS Einsatzgruppen kill?
2 million
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When and where were the first ghettos set up?
October 1939 in Poland
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What were ghettos like?
overcrowded limited food, water, medical supplies and electricity
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What did Strength Through Joy do with the ghettos?
ran trips there for Aryans to show the 'depraved' race
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When were all Jews required to wear the Star of David?
1 September 1941
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When did the first gassing in a death camp happen?
8 December 1941
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When was the Wanesse Conference?
20 January 1942
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What was the Wanesse Conference?
formed the plan for mass extermination of Jews Heydrich: organised transport system to camps gassed or worked to death at camps
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How many Jews were murdered during WW2?
6 million
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How many Polish Jews survived WW2?
3000 of the initial 3 million
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What did the Nazis do to the 'Rhineland bastards'?
racial hygienists examined suspected children Gestapo enforced their sterilisation
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How were gypsies initially treated?
no formal policy
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What happened to gypsies in 1936?
ghetto camps established
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What happened to gypsies in 1938?
all required to register with government and be examined by a racial biologist
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What happened to gypsies in 1939?
forbidden to marry an Aryan without a special permit deportation to East Poland
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What happened to gypsies 1940-1945?
10,000s shot by SS
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What happened to gypsies in 1942?
mass murder - gassed in concentration camps
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How many gypsies died in Auschwitz?
21,000
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When did the T4 Programme begin?
1939
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What did the T4 Programme do?
killed 'useless eaters' in preparation for war medical professionals required to report all children with down's syndrome, 'idiocy' and 'malformed limbs' - granted a 'merciful death' 'hereditarily inferior' adults transported to special clinics and killed
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Did the public know about the T4 Programme?
not at first in order to evade legal process and save time information gradually leaked and raised concerns Bishop Gallen spoke out - called it murder in order to retain support of the Catholic Church Hitler lied and announced its suspension, continuing just with more secrecy
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What was said about the T4 clinics compared to what they were really like?
promised they were providing care and looking for a cure instead: killed with lethal doses of morphine or starved to death 6 clinics had gas chambers - killed 80,000 in 1941

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