FRG Social

Question 1

What percent viewed Hitler as one of the greatest bar the war in 1955? and what percent did in…?

Answer 1

1955 - 48%

1967 - 32%

Question 2

Various nazi war crime trails between…

Impact?

Answer 2

1958 to 1965

More open discussion about past

Question 3

In 19… how many Lander had made learning Nazi compulsory in schools.

Answer 3

10 had in 1962

Question 4

1979 Holocaust TV show watched by how many?

Answer 4

20 million

Question 5

1968 how many went to visit Dachau?

How many were late 70s?

Answer 5

471

Over 5000

Question 6

Who did Ex-Nazis provide financial backing to?

Answer 6

Strauss from 1961 to 1988 and Kohl from 1982

Question 7

Why Ex-Nazi’s not huge concern by the 1980s, what was a concern?

Answer 7

They were old and pathetic.

Rise in neo nazism.

Question 8

What event in 1980 were neo nazis associated with? How many were killed?

Answer 8

The bombing in Munich Okteberfest. Attacker + 14 killed

Question 9

By 1989, how many members of extreme right groups?

Answer 9

18000

Question 10

Between 1950 and 1970 how much did average household income increase by?

Answer 10

400%

Question 11

What retained influence of elites?

Answer 11

Prestige continued, diversified into business, hereditary last names found in all political, economic and social spheres, most uni chairs were political appointments = idea of an establishment, traditional education reinforced social class.

Question 12

What happened to the middle class? How?

Answer 12

Drop in self employed, meant more waged middle class. expansion of the middle class = increased education, economic boom and service industry growth.

Question 13

What did the economy becoming more sophisticated mean?

Answer 13

Less blue collar and more white collar workers.

Question 14

How did the shrinking working class benefit?

Answer 14

Shorter working hours + social partnership with the management + increased educational provision.

Question 15

What did the Gastarbeiter mean for the w/c?

Answer 15

Took all the low paid jobs, this meant the w/c almost automatically placed in the upper working class or even the lower middle class.

Question 16

What percent worked in agriculture by 1983?

Answer 16

5.9%

Question 17

How did those in Agri benefit?

Answer 17

Increased mechanisation, EEC subsidy and increased: cars, tv, telephone and fast roads = rural life easier.

Question 18

What percent married women in work in 1950? 1970?

Answer 18

1/4 to over 1/2

Question 19

Percent of women in total workforce in 1949? in 1989?

Answer 19

1/6 in 1949, over 50% in 1989

Question 20

What happened in 1980 = help women?

Answer 20

Act preventing indirect and direct discrimination on the grounds of gender in the workplace.

Question 21

What happened in 1976 helping women?

Answer 21

Criminal code on abortion liberalised.

Question 22

What happened 1977, effect in 1886-1990

Answer 22

Divorce made easier. Divorce increased 32% 1986-1990 with most cases initiated by women.

Question 23

What percent of children viewed their parents as a role model in 1955? in 1984?

Answer 23

16% in 1955

3% in 1984

Question 24

What percent of parents viewed corporal punishment as a good thing in 1954? in 1984?

Answer 24

50% in 1954

Universally frowned upon by 1984

Question 25

Vast expansion of university provision meant number of uni students in 1950? end of 1960s? by 1989?

Answer 25

1950 = 108,000 end of 60s = 400,000 1989 = 1,000,000+

Question 26

What did Brandt do to help education?

Answer 26

-Increased education spending to 5x more per head than previously allocated. -1971 educational support law for poor -abolished fees for higher education -increased provision teacher training -increased spending on university research and education by 300% 1970-1974

Question 27

Unemployment percent 195_ to 1973?

Answer 27

Never above 3%

Question 28

Unemployment percent between 1961-1966?

Answer 28

Never above 1%

Question 29

When did unemployment begin to rise? What was it by 1991?

Answer 29

from 1973, 1991 = around 2 million

Question 30

What caused the social tensions of the 1970s?

Answer 30

Grievances against Gastarbeiter, US presence in industry and control over Germany's defence, inequality of wealth systems. Fuelled social tensions and growth of neo-nazism

Question 31

Evidence of social tensions?

Answer 31

1968 student protests, protest marches in 70s and flourishing of environmentalism.

Question 32

What was unemployment in the wake of the oil crises?

Answer 32

Kept 4-5% which was very good in comparison to its neighbours.

Question 33

What caused 100s of thousands of jobs to be lost in the 1980s in industry?

Answer 33

Computerisation and robots.

Question 34

Unemployment 1st reached 2 million in what year?

Answer 34

1984

Question 35

What worsened the rising unemployment?

Answer 35

Rapidly rising wages due to associations and unions.

Question 36

Evidence of underclass? What year?

Answer 36

Squatters in Haffenstrasse in 1987.

Question 37

There was no frenzy of... in the FRG like had happened in Weimar?

Answer 37

new writing, art or ideas

Question 38

Early years of FRG culture was..

Answer 38

Conventional and conformist

Question 39

What were recovered from nazis?

Answer 39

Degenerate paintings and artefacts

Question 40

What returned from where they'd left off in 1920s?

Answer 40

Writers, poets and artists returned to Germany.

Question 41

What did the state encourage? Why?

Answer 41

Culture. To establish new identity (particularly since division)

Question 42

Until public spending cuts of the 70s, what percent did the state allocate to the arts? Impact?

Answer 42

1%. Permitted 70 orchestras and 60 opera halls.

Question 43

Who benefited from lander commissions? What did they do?

Answer 43

Artists, architects and composers. Helped reestablish creative arts.

Question 44

What new painting 'school' was enabled from state commissions?

Answer 44

Zero Movement

Question 45

Regarding the classical and new elitist culture, Who encouraged it? Who enjoyed it?

Answer 45

Encouraged by public sponsorship and enjoyed by growing middle class.

Question 46

The FRG had the greatest density of? How many of them? What were they $, this allowed?

Answer 46

Theatres. 300. Heavily subsidised = allowed experimentation

Question 47

Early post war years of theatre? 60s like plays? eg? What happened in the 80s?

Answer 47

Conventional, 60s = burst of creativity = large audiences, eg: new interpretations of Shakespeare. Attendance dropped 80s but was still higher compared Europe.

Question 48

Cinema in 50s? 60s? What movement in 70s?

Answer 48

50s conventional and sterile = bland Hollywood movies and apolitical German films. 60s = rise in controversial like arent we wonderful 70s = new german cinema movement.

Question 49

What happened in FRG literature? What group was there?

Answer 49

writers silenced by the nazis returned. Self conscious critiques of Germany emerged in the 1960s like Gunter Grass's Tin Drum. Group 47 encouraged young writers to write about contemporary issues rather than idealised images.

Question 50

What was a major cultural influence? When did it begin?

Answer 50

Mass viewership of TV. Began general broadcasting in 1952.

Question 51

The years of the FRG saw rise in... . And what did the popularisation of culture mean?

Answer 51

Readership. Huge increase in sales of cheap paperbacks.

Question 52

Declining role off... Increasing growth of.... and increase of...

Answer 52

Religion down Science up Education Up

Question 53

What country significantly impacted Germany? What did this cause Brandt to say?

Answer 53

America "Do we all want to be Americans?"