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The Weimar Republic - Women, Minorities, Culture and Education Flashcards

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What is a good way to describe the role and status of women in Weimar Germany?

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Liberal in theory but traditional in practice

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How did the political status of women improve?

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  • 12th November 1918 : Women were given the right to vote
  • Turnout of women during 1st election was 90%
  • Between 1919 -1932, 112 Women were elected to the Reichstag
  • Article 109 stated that in principal women and men were equal and marriage was an equal union
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How did the political status of women remain the same?

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  • Women’s legal status remained the same due to the German Civil Code passed in 1900
  • No allowance of free contraception or abortion
  • Female equality and rights divided the Reichstag
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How did work and employment improve for women

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  • Female employment rose. By 1918, 75% of women of working age had jobs
  • Greater opportunities for women to go into higher education
  • On 1925, 2500 women doctors were in practice and this number had doubled by 1933
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How did work and employment remain the same for women?

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  • Gov policy was that women gave up jobs for returning soldiers
  • Only single women were supposed to work and then remain at home once married
  • Usually given lower status jobs usually poorly paid manual job (over 50%) or white collar (receptionists)
  • 33% pay gap between women and men
  • Child care wasn’t provided for women
  • Faced hostility
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How did the concept of the New Woman show an increase of women’s social status?

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  • Traditional female behaviour abandoned
  • Like flappers - cut hair short, wore shorter dresses, drank, smoked
  • Had more sexual freedoms, more women engaged in premarital sex
  • Supported by films and advertising industries
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How did the reaction to the New Women show that the status of women remained the same?

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  • Politicians and press criticised their morality
  • Faced wage and sexual discrimination
  • Called selfish for not planning for future
  • Blamed for falling birth rate
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How did women benefit from the Great Depression?

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Employment of Women wasn’t as badly affected as that of men as they were cheaper to employ
1932 : 33% of women were unemployed vs 46% of men

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How did women suffer from the Great Depression?

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  • Lead to hostility towards working women who were seen to be taking the place of a man
  • 20th May 1932 : Chancellor Brüning said all married working women whose husbands had jobs had to leave work
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What areas of culture saw a development in Weimar Germany?

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  • Art
  • Theatre
  • Literature
  • Architecture and design
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How did art develop in the Weimar Republic

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  • The New Objectives movement developed which focused more on understanding people in everyday life
  • Artist such as Dex and Georg Gros became famous - they looked a lot at the state of society in their work
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How did theatre develop in the Weimar Republic?

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  • The Zeit theatre movement developed
  • Bertold Brecht introduced politics into theatre. He wrote the Three Penny Opera which was a left wing look on a capitalist society
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How did literature develop in Weimar Germany?

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  • There were two popular styles of writing traditional/nostalgic and modern
  • Modern focuses on social issues such as the distress of the working class
  • Books such as ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ and ‘Berlin Alexander Platz’ were popular
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How did architecture and design develop in Weimar Germany?

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  • The Bauhaus movement developed - simple block colours, early flat pack style
  • Movement lead by Walter Gropius
  • It was simple and functional and emphasised close relation between art and technology
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How did new culture reach ordinary people?

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  • Development of a mass culture
  • Radio
  • Film
  • Cabaret
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Describe the mass culture in Weimar Germany

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  • There was a mainstream culture which spread through different mode of mass media
  • It was influenced by consumerism, advertising, jazz music and America
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Describe the film industry in Weimar Germany

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  • The most advanced in Europe
  • The UFA was a government ran industry ran by Alfred Hugenburg and it was composed of lost of large film studios
  • Popular films were Metropolis (1926), Gold Rush (1925) and Blue Angel (1950)
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What was the cabaret scene like in Weimar Germany?

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  • Clubs set up in the city
  • Entertainment included satirical comedy, jazz music and female dancer in varying degrees of nudity
  • Covered themes such as sex and politics due to the removal of gagging laws and a rise in free speech
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How did radio enable people to engage with the new culture?

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  • It was a method of mass communication

* 1 in 4 Germans owned a radio

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How did Weimar Germany respond to the cultural experimentation?

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  • These changes took place mainly in cities
  • Most were horrified and said it was a decline in German moral standards
  • Right wing sympathisers criticised jazz music, the new woman and the rise of Jewish people in power
  • Society became more polarised
21
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What was education like in the Second Reich?

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  • Compulsory ages 6 - 14
  • There were fee paying schools, Volksschule and Confessional Schools
  • Confesisonal schools were most popular
  • Gov have 1hr free childcare in the morning for kids age 3-5• Social mobility was hard as education was expensive and many couldn’t afford to send kids to school after they turned 14
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What did the Weimar Government want for education?

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• A fairer system with a mixed, non confessional intake with no religious education
• A federal education law would have set out guidelines for the Länder and meet needs to the people
However the government could never agree on what they wanted for the system

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What are non- confessional schools?

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Schools that didn’t have any religious education

24
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What compulsory education system did the Weimar Government set up?

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Grundschule
• Compulsory education for kids age 6 to 10
• Allowed for parents to remove their kids from religious education. there were also no clerical inspections anymore

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What did the 1927 educational bill propose?

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That confessional (catholic, Jewish and Protestant), common (all faiths but each taught religious education separately) and secular (no religious education) schools were set up on equal footing

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What happened with the education bill

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  • Opposed by some such as the Volkskirche Association for Evangelical Freedom
  • Mainly supported by German people esp. groups such as the Reich Parent’s League
  • It was sent to a committee who couldn’t agree and the bill didn’t return to the Reichstag
27
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What was the make up of schools in Germany in 1932?

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29,020 Protestant
15,256 Catholic
97 Jewish
8,921 Common
295 Secular
28
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What type of school could you attend after the age of 10?

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All education post 10 had to be paid for
Hauptschule - 5 years with path to trade or apprenticeship
Realschule - 6 years with path to business or technical training
Gymnasium - 9 years path to uni

29
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What evidence is there for continuing lack of social mobility

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In 1928, 45% of uni students fathers were civil servants and 2.5% had fathers who were working class

30
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What types of university were there and what were the issues with them?

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  • Duelling and Non Duelling
  • Duelling were seen as better but discriminated based on race or class (eg German- Aryan Chambers)
  • You chambers could decide the rest of your life path
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What evidence is there that ethnic minorities were equal and integrated in Weimar Society?

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  • Article 113 said that people who spoke other languages couldn’t be discriminated against or prevent from preserving their national identity
  • Jewish people has a big influence in culture. 5 held cabinet posts in the cabinet
  • Black musicians and writers were accepted in cities
  • 85,000 Jewish soldier fought in the German Army during WW1 and 12,000 died
  • 1925 : 200,000 polish speakers in Germany and another 500,000 spoke both languages
  • Gov banned a no. of anti semetic organisations after Walter Rathenau’s assassination
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What evidence is there that Jewish people were unequal and segregated in Weimar Germany?

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  • Blamed for collapse of economy and society’s hardships during depression
  • Government criticises for appointing Jewish people to high positions of power
  • Walter Rathenau’s assassination in 1922
  • Some members of the judiciary were anti-semetic and made racist remarks
  • The Nazis saw a rise in votes
  • The German Peoples Offensive and Defensive Alliance (anti- semetic group) saw membership rose from 25,000 to 170,000 between 1919-23
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What evidence is there that Black people were unequal and segregated in Weimar Germany?

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  • Saw rising hostility after 1923 due to black army units from French colonies being mobilised to invade the Ruhr
  • 500 mixes race children born and labelled ‘Germany’s shame’
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What evidence is there that Roma people faced discrimination in Weimar Germany?

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  • Disliked due to that fact they lived around as a community and didn’t contribute to tax or working to benefit the economy
  • Several Länder tried to pass laws to attempt to restrict the movement of gypsies
  • Bavaria introduced laws in 1926/27 that forced traveller children into schools, adults into work and them to carry identity cards
35
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What is the best evidence towards describing the treatment of ethnic minorities in Weimar Germany?

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• Article 113 said that people who spoke other languages couldn’t be discriminated against or prevent from preserving their national identity
BUT
• The Länder didn’t adhere to article 113 and many discriminated against minorities
• From 1871 German nationalism and idea of Volk excluded ethnic minorities from being seen as equal

36
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What laws did the government pass to try to improve living standards?

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Reich Pension Law 
labour Exchange Law
Economic Enabling Law
Reich Social Welfare Law
Unemployment Insurance Law
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Reich Pension Law
• Date passed
• What did it state
• Who did it benefit

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  • May 1920
  • Regulated pensions for veterans, war widows and soldiers families and were determined based on soldier jobs before they joined the army
  • Benfited people left behind
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Labour Exchange Law
• Date passed
• What did it state
• Who did it benefit

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  • February 1922
  • Guverment offices were set up to train the unemployed and to help them fine work
  • Benefited the unemployed
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Economic Enabling Law
• Date passed
• What did it state
• Who did it benefit

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  • February 1924
  • Restructured unemployment benefits and set the rates for employers contributions towards benefits
  • Benefited the unemployed and employees
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Reich Social Welfare Law
• Date passed
• What did it state
• Who did it benefit

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  • February 1924
  • Pulled together different post war benefits and federal and regional relief systems (e.g. poor relief, maternity care) and set up municipal welfare offices to administer them
  • Benefited anyone idm benefits
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Unemployment Insurance Law
• Date passed
• What did it state
• Who did it benefit

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  • July 1927
  • All worker and employees were required to contribute towards a national scheme for unemployment welfare. benefits were now given to all people out of work
  • Benefited the unemployed
42
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Were the standards of living of everybody in Germany look the same?

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No, some benefitted whilst the rest of the nation suffered and some suffered whilst others benefited

43
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Who benefited during the hyperinflation and why?

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  • Debtors - with the decrease of the value of the mark it became easy to pay off debt
  • black marketers - it was hard to but items in regular markets so people turned to the black markets (eg newspaper went from costing 1 mark in 1922 to 700 million in 1925)
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Who didn’t benefit during the Golden Years and why?

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  • Poor people - unemployment doubled between 1925-1928 (3.4% to 6.3%) and peaked at 10% in 1926
  • Farmers - small farmers wee usually in debt and Stresemann introduced policy to join farms together
  • Workers - eight hour working day had disappeared by 1924
45
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Who benefited during the Great Depression and why?

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Women - only 33% of women were unemployed in 1932 compared to 46% of men. 33% pay gap meant that women were more likely to employ women

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