History Module 8 Flashcards
How did the Nazis indoctrinate children?
The school curriculum and youth organisations.
What made Nazi youth organisations appealing to young people?
- Leisure activities
- All alternatives banned/absorbed
- Massively counted towards jobs/apprenticeships
How did the Nazis use children to control their parents?
Children were taught their first loyalty was to Hitler, not their families. They were encouraged to tell teachers if their parents expressed anti-Nazi sentiment.
What were the expectations of women in Nazi Germany?
- Be fit, healthy and naturally beautiful
- Marry Aryan men
- Have many children
- Stay at home and don’t work
What incentives were there for women to adhere to expectations?
- German Maiden’s League taught the three Ks - children, kitchen, church
- Mother’s Cross (financial incentive) awarded for 4, 6, or 8 children
How did war impact the expectations of women?
- Expected to work and contribute to the war effort
- Still expected to have children
What were the economic benefits of living under Nazi rule?
- Growing economy
- Public works projects
- Falling unemployment
What economic harm did Nazi rule bring?
- Jews forced from jobs
- Jewish businesses confiscated
- Women pressured to leave jobs
- More hours for wages less than before the depression
- Government in severe debt
What events significantly decreased morale over the second world war?
- Invasion of the USSR
- Services closing in favour of armament
- The bombing of Dresden
How were Jewish people harmed in ghettos/labour & death camps?
- Old/sick/children killed
- Adults used a slave labour
- People used as medical experiments
What groups held responsibility for the ‘Final Solution’?
- Hitler
- The Civil Service
- Police forces
- The army
- Industry
- The German people
Why wasn’t there more opposition during WW2?
- Nazi terror state (SS & Gestapo)
- The ‘Hitler Myth’
- Divided opposition
- Approval of Nazis (early war years)
- Propaganda/censorship
