cultural life in germany

Question 1

the boycott of jewish businesses

Answer 1

1st april 1933

Question 2

jews could no longer work for the government

Answer 2

april 1933

Question 3

law against overcrowding of German schools

Answer 3

april 1933

Question 4

nuremberg laws

Answer 4

september 1935

Question 5

“israel” or “sarah” to Jews name

Answer 5

1938

Question 6

kristallnacht

Answer 6

9th november 1938

Question 7

results of kristallnacht

Answer 7

90+ people killed
1,000 jewish shops and businesses looted
191 synagogues burnt down
over next few days, 20,000 jewish boys and men rounded up by nazis and sent to concentration camps
jewish community forced to pay:
- 30 million DM for cost of reconstruction
- fine of 1 Billion DM

Question 8

how many Jews emigrated after Kristallnacht

Answer 8

250,000

mainly to palestine, US, latin america

Question 9

how many boys in Hitler youth when war broke out

Answer 9

7.2 million

Question 10

when was hitler youth made compulsory

Answer 10

december 1936

Question 11

when was hitler youth formed

Answer 11

as early as 1922

Question 12

number of women in uni’s in 1933 and 1939

Answer 12

1933 = 20,000
1939 = 5,000

Question 13

number of people going on holidays thanks to strength through joy

Answer 13

1938 = 10 million workers went on a holiday trip
1938 = 180,000 went on strength through joy sponsored cruises

Question 14

when were first VW cars introduced

Answer 14

1938

Question 15

when did hitler sign the concordant with the pope

Answer 15

1933

Question 16

hitler begins concentrated attack on catholic church

Answer 16

1937

200 priests arrested on charges of financial and sexual impropriety

Question 17

in 1933, how many followers did the protestant church have

Answer 17

48 million followers with 28 different state churches

Question 18

when the confessional church was banned, and how many clergy it had when this ban occurred

Answer 18

september 1933

had 5,000 clergy

Question 19

when hitler suspended Atkion T4, how many people had already been euthanised

Answer 19

100,000

Question 20

editorial law

for the press

Answer 20

october 1933

Question 21

in 1935, radio audience in germany was what number

Answer 21

56 million

Question 22

when did all German filmmakers have to join the Reich Chamber of Film

Answer 22

1933

Question 23

when did all subject matter of films have to be approved

Answer 23

1937

Question 24

hitler’s mother’s birthday

Answer 24

12th august 1860

Question 25

jewish civil servants, lawyers and teachers sacked

Answer 25

1933

Question 26

when were attacks on jews legitimised by the state

Answer 26

1937

Question 27

olympics held in berlin

Answer 27

august 1936

Question 28

propoganda movies

Answer 28

jud suss | the eternal jew

Question 29

propaganda newspaper

Answer 29

der sturmer | the same company also published the poisonous mushroom, anti-semitic children's schoolbook

Question 30

when was the law introduced where doctors had to report patients who had any conditions that made them eligible for forced sterilisation

Answer 30

july 1933 e.g. "feeble-mindedness" = a condition that could be interpreted in many ways

Question 31

between 1934-45, how many people sterilised (stopped from having children)

Answer 31

350,000

Question 32

when was the secret operation T4 introduced

Answer 32

october 1939, ordered by hitler began with the killing of 5,000 mentally and physically handicapped children

Question 33

when was the news of the euthanasia programme leaked out

Answer 33

1941

Question 34

when did hitler cancel the T4 programme, and how many people had been already killed by it

Answer 34

august 1941 100,000

Question 35

when did the T4 programme secretly resume, and what was different this time

Answer 35

august 1942 killed by lethal injection or drug overdose, not gassing

Question 36

total number of mentally ill or handicapped people killed by 1945

Answer 36

275,000

Question 37

around how many romani lived in europe in 1939

Answer 37

1 million

Question 38

how many romani killed by end of war

Answer 38

200,000

Question 39

how many homosexual arrested by nazis

Answer 39

100,000 | 15,000 sent to concentration camps

Question 40

what was the death rate of homosexuals in the concentration camps

Answer 40

60% had to wear pink triangles on prison clothing

Question 41

define eugenics

Answer 41

the idea of improving race by selective breeding