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Nazi Social, Economic and Racial Policy Flashcards

1
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3 rs relating what Hitler does to try and solve the economic issues

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Rule reduce reward

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3 ways Hitler reduces unemployment

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Conscription
Rearmament
RAD (National Labour Service Corps)

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What does the RAD stand for

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The National Labour Service Corps

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What was the RAD (National Labour Service Corps)

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From 1935
Compulsory 6 months of work for men aged 18-25
E.g planting trees, building hospitals, building autobahns
Very low wages, given very little food, wore uniforms, lived in camps, carried out military drills

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5
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One way Hitler ruled the workforce

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1933 Set up DAF and trade Unions were banned

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6
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When did Hitler set up DAF and trade Unions were banned

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1933

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What does DAF stand for

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The German Labour Front

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How did the DAF being set up in 1933 rule the workforce

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Hitler had full control of workers
Workers banned from strikes, given quite high wages and controlled employers with employment rights

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9
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2 ways Hitler rewarded the workforce

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Strength through joy
Beauty of labour

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What was KDF (strength through joy)

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Organised leisure time for workers to reward their hard work
E.g theatre trips, cruises, holidays

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11
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What did the 3 Ks stand for in terms of women

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Children
Church
Cooking

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True or false, Hitler agreed with the freedom that women had gained during the golden age of Weimar

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False
He wanted to reverse this to make them traditional housewives again

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13
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What did Hitler believe the role of women should be

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Traditional housewives (in charge of domestic work)

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True or false, Hitler allowed women to be teachers and doctors etc

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False
He thought women should be inferior to men and should revert to traditional housewives

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15
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German word for ‘People’s community’

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Volksgemeinshaft

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True or false, the Nazis believed women were just as important as men

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True
Even though they were treated as inferior the Nazis believed that the women’s role as a mother would be very important in building the Volksgemeknshaft

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17
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2 key laws for women

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The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage 1933
Lebensborn (Life Springs programme) 1936

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18
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What was the 1933 Law for the Encouragement of Marriage

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Introduced to help increase birth rate to to help build and expand the Master race

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What was Lebensborn (Life Springs Programme) 1936

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Unmarried Aryan women made pregnant by ‘racially pure’ SS men

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Aryan meaning

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Anyone non Jewish
(Thought to be ‘pure’ German)

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21
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How did the Nazis help to increase the birth rate and strengthen the Master Race

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Encourage more births: Law for the Encouragement of Marriage 1933
Lebensborn 1936
Women given medals for the more children that they had
Nuremberg Laws 1935

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22
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What year were the Nuremberg Laws introduced

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1935

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23
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What year was Lebensborn

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1936

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24
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What year was the Law for the encouragement of marriage

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1933

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25
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What were the Nuremberg Laws 1935

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Marriages between Aryans (‘pure Germans’) and Jews banned

26
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What ‘look’ did Nazis want women to have

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Blond
Heavy hipped
Athletic
Flat shoes
Full skirt
No make up
Wear hair in bun/ plait

27
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Indoctrination meaning

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Making someone think a certain way

28
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What did Hitler use to indoctrinate Nazis’ ideals onto the German Youth

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The education system

29
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True or false, the Nazis used school as a tool to indoctrinate children on the Nazi ways of life

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True

30
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What lessons did boys learn in school and why

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Maths (to do with firing guns) and PE (get them fitter and stronger)
Prepare them for the army

31
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What lessons did girls do in school and why

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Cooking and learning how to bring up a child to help prepare them for being a traditional housewife

32
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Key lessons in Nazi school that helped get across Hitler’s anti- semestic views

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Race studies (put across Nazi views of race and population control)
Geography (show how Germany was surrounded by hostile neighbours)
History (portray TofV and communism as evil things
Biology (study racial theory and importance of ‘master race’)

33
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What did all lessons start and end with

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Salute saying Heil Hitler

34
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What did all teachers have to belong to

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The Nazi Teacher’s League
They had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler + promote Nazi ideas in the classroom

35
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The Nazis used history lessons to show what

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Germany was surrounded by hostile neighbours
TofV and communism were evil things

36
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How did the Hitler ensure teachers were promoting Nazi views in the classroom

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They had to swear oath of loyalty to Hitler
Had to join Nazi teachers’ league

37
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When was the Hitler Youth Movement introduced

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1925

38
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When was the Hitler Youth made compulsory

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1939

39
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What tasks did boys do in the Hitler Youth

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Military drills e.g shooting, map reading, drills
Athletics
Hiking
Camping

40
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By 1939 how many members did the Hitler Youth have including boys and girls

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7 million

41
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Persecution meaning

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Ill and unfair treatment

42
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Examples of groups of people persecuted by the Nazis

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Ill
Disabled
Jewish
Sinti and Roma

43
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Scapegoat meaning

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A thing that takes the blame for others (e.g Jews for the war)

44
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Hitler refereed to Jews as s….

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Subhumans

45
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True or false, Hitler thought it was necessary to introduce selective breeding and destroying Jews to achieve his ‘master race’

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True

46
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When did Kristallnacht occur

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November 1938

47
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What does Kristillnact mean

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The Night of broken glass

48
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What happened in Kristillnacht November 1938

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A Polish Jew assassinated a German in the German Embassy in Paris
Goebbels uses this as opportunity to retaliate against the Jews so organised attacks on Jewish property across Germany (shops, synagogues etc)

49
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What event stimulated kristillnacht

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November 1938 Polish Jew assassinates German in the German embassy, Paris
(Goebbels use some this as an opportunity to retaliate against the Jews by destroying Jewish properties)

50
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How many Jewish businesses were destroyed in Kristallnacht

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Over 7,500

51
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How many Jews were killed in Kristallnacht

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100

52
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In 1933 what boycott was organised by the SA

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Jewish shops and businesses

53
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In what year were Jewish people evicted (expelled) from their homes and sent to ghettos

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1939

54
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Examples of

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55
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Examples of public works programmes (The RAD often did these)

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Planting trees, building autobahns and hospitals

56
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What car related scheme was launched in 1938

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Volkswagen scheme
DAF workers had opportunity to save money to buy their own car

57
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Was the Volkswagen scheme aimed at rewarding, reducing or ruling the workforce

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Rewarding
(Workers could save up to buy car)

58
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How big was the army in 1939

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1.4 million

59
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All textbooks had to be approved by what

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The ministry of education

60
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Name for Hitler youth for girls

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German league of Maidens

GCSE History- Germany (7 decks)

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