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Question 1

What are confessional schools in Weimar Republic ?

Answer 1

Confessional schools are faith based schools predominately Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. Most schools were confessional schools.

Question 2

What type of education system did the post-war government want?

Answer 2

The socialist post-war government wanted a new,fairer,education system with a mixed, not confessional,intake and no religious education.

Question 3

Which political party fought to keep confessional schools and religion in the curriculum?

Answer 3

The centre party.

Question 4

At what age did you have to start paying for education ?

Answer 4

At the age of 10.

Question 5

What is a Haupstchule?

Answer 5

Five years schooling for pupils going into apprenticeships or trade.

Question 6

What is a Realschule?

Answer 6

Six years schooling for pupils going into business or technical training.

Question 7

What is a Gymnasium?

Answer 7

Nine years schools for pupils going to university.

Question 8

What exam did you have to pass in order to go to university?

Answer 8

The Abitur exam.

Question 9

What did the 1928 survey of the fathers of university students find?

Answer 9

45 percent were civil servants and only 2.3 percent were working class.

Question 10

Give one example of a university corporation which formed nationwide associations?

Answer 10

The ? duelling ? corporations.

Question 11

By 1928 what percentage of students were members of a corporation?

Answer 11

56 percent.

Question 12

What type of activities did Weimar promote for cultural experimentations?

Answer 12

Art elite culture, government-subsided culture and popular culture.

Question 13

What type of people formed Art Elite Culture?

Answer 13

Artists , intellectuals, writers and those who supported them.

Question 14

What did they favour at first?

Answer 14

They favoured forward looking modernism and expressionism.

Question 15

What did they then change it to?

Answer 15

They then influenced art, music, literature, opera and theatre.

Question 16

What did the government subside?

Answer 16

The government subsidised theatres, orchestras, museums and libraries - bringing culture to even small towns.

Question 17

What did social welfare projects priorities?

Answer 17

They took priority for both federal and state governments.

Question 18

What other cultural initiatives did the government encourage?

Answer 18

They encourage Ufa , a government film.

Question 19

What was the name of the first full length film about the future as well as the most expensive?

Answer 19

Metropolis .

Question 20

What heavily influenced the young in urban areas?

Answer 20

Us trends such as a consumer culture, advertising and jazz.

Question 21

What allowed the banning of ?obscene??

Answer 21

The criminal code - paragraph 184.

Question 22

Why were many right wing people worried about Weimar culture?

Answer 22

They were worried about the increasing Jewish writers, artists and musicians as well as the increasing Americanisation of culture and the way ? new women ? dressed and behaved.