Germany Flashcards

Question

Enabling Act

Answer 1

March elections - 43.9% vote = Nazi March 1933 Enabling Act Reichstag 12 meeting in 11 years 25000 communists arrested, Trade unions banned

Answer 2

1934 - SA 3m, Army 100,000 but much better trained June for four days: 150 SA and Rohm killed 250 other opponents

Answer 3

August 1934

Answer 4

SS created 1925 (250,000 members by 1939) Concentration Camps from 1933 - 150,000 held there by 1939 SD created 1931 by Himmler Gestapo expanded 1936, 30,000 members (160,000 arrests by 1939) “People’s court’ 1934, German Lawyer’s Front 1933 Judges - swastika on robes from 1936

Answer 5

Goebeels minister of propoganda by Mar 1933 Berlin Olympics 1936 - 33 golds for Germany, 24 golds for US Yearly Nuremburg Rallies + Major parades like for Hitler’s bday in April Reich Press Law Oct 1933 Reich Radio Company 1933 Monumnetal style for buildings - Speer designed chancellery 1938 Before each film 45 minute newsreel glorifying Hitler 70% families = radio in 1939

Answer 6

Unemployment 1933 6m, 1939 0.3m Amount spent of construction projects from 18.4bn 1933 to 37.1bn 1938 Rearmament - army from 100,000 1933 to 1.4m 1939 Labour Service 1935 - 125000 involved in autobam building Labour Front 1933 - monthly wages increased form 86 –> 109 marks Strength through joy 1933 - 1936 35m members, 1938 - 22m doing sports, 10m on holidays Beauty of Labour 1938 - 34,000 improvements

Answer 7

July 1933 - Concordat with Pope Dec 1933 - Pastors emergency league created which morphed into Confessing Church by 1934, rivalled Reich Church, 800 pastors arrested Pope speaks out - Concordat broken 1937 - 400 priests imprisoned 1941 euthanasia campaign stopped by Cardinal Galen German Faith Movement - pagan worship by Nazis - but only -0.5% of pop

Answer 8

Progress under Weimar: 1933 1/10th of Reichstag = women, under Nazis strict traditional roles Cross of Honour of German Maidens for 8+ children Live births up from 1m --> 1.4m from 1933-39 German Women's enterprise set up Sep 1933, 6m member 1939 Lebensborn 1935 by Himmer 1933 Law for the Encouragement of marriage provided loans up to 1000 marks - 800,000 used this

Answer 9

97% of teachers in Nazi Teacher's League 1939 - 7m in Hitler Youth when membership made compulsroy 1.2m boys trained with small arms Napolas (special training institutes) - controlled by SS from 1936 Indocrination courses for teachers - by 1939 200,000 attended Other youth groups banned 1933

Answer 10

Sterilisation Law July 1933 - 350,000 forcibily sterilised by 1939 5/6th of German Romani killed, Boycott of Jewish Shops April 1933 Nuremburg laws sep 1938 Kristallnacht Nov 1938 - 100 Jews killed, 20,000 arrested, jews fined $1bn 1933-39 50% of Jews left

Answer 11

Sep 1939 invasion of poland = Ghettos June 1941 Russia invaded = SS death squads kill 440,000 Jan 1942 - Wansee Final Solution - 6m dead in WW2 By July 1942, 500,000 succumbed to disease and starvation

Answer 12

1943 SD reports suggest attitudes away from Nazis because of bombing 800,000 civilians wounded 20% housing destroyed (3.6m homes) Cologne, Berlin and Dresden destroyed

Answer 13

1944-45 = average calorie intake to 1000 Sep 1939 - rationing 1939-41 - aircraft production from 8300 --> 10800, whilst UK tripled Germany dependent on foreign supplies for 1/3 of raw materials

Answer 14

11.6m women working 1933 to 14.6m by 1939 1944 compulsory working age for women up to 50

Answer 15

1939 - Elser Munich Beer Hall 1944 - Elderweiss Pirates imprisoned for helping deserters 1943 White Rose Group executed after calling for Hitler to be overthrown 1938 - Blomberg Fritsch plan but removed from posts Bonhoeffer arrested Jan 1942 Von Moltke + Kriseau circle but he was arrested Jan 1944 Rest of Kriseau circle and Von stauffenberg attempt to assasinate but all executed June 1944

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