The home front

Question 1

what was rationed from the start of the war?

Answer 1

food
clothing
tolitries

Question 2

in what year did the production of consumer goods rapidly decline?

Answer 2

1942

Question 3

what happened to workers?

Answer 3

longer working hours
more women forced to work
non essential bussineses shut down to make better use of work force

Question 4

When did food shortages get serious?

Answer 4

1945

Question 5

When was the Hamburg firestorm?

Answer 5

24th july 1943

Question 6

What were ther impacts of the Hamburg firestorm?

Answer 6

30,000 cicilians died

1 million made homeless

Question 7

what were the total impacts of the allied bombings by 1945?

Answer 7

30,000 killed
800,000 wounded
3.6 million homes destroyed - 20% of total housing

Question 8

Why was the morale on the home front high between 1939 and 1940?

Answer 8

The success of blitzkrieg

Question 9

before 1944 how badly was food rationed?

Answer 9

the german people recieved 10% more than recomended calorie intake

Question 10

In which countries where german soldiers allowed to return from to see families at the begging of the war?

Answer 10

France,Italy, poland Yugoslavia,

Easy to travel by train

Question 11

what was the german evacuation programme called and how many were evacuated?

Answer 11

Kinder Land Verschickung

2.5 million children evacuated