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Germany Under The Nazis Flashcards

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How many Jews were killed in concentration camps? - Life under the Nazis

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6 million

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Eugenics is introduce in German schools - Life under the Nazis

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September 1935

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The Nuremberg Laws are announced, banning Jew-German marriage and Jews from voting - Life under the Nazis

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September 1935

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Jews can be evicted from their homes for no reason - Life under the Nazis

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April 1939

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When and where was the final solution decided? - Life under the Nazis

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January 1942, The Wanseee Conference

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How many physically and mentally disabled people were killed from 1939? - Life under the Nazis

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200,000

Before this, they were forcibly sterilised

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What were Einsatzgeuppen? - Life under the Nazis

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Einsatzgruppen were 4 squads (A,B,C,D) that went into surrounding areas of Europe to eliminate ethnic minorities

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How long did the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising last for, and when? - Life under the Nazis

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43 days, in 1943

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All men between what ages had to spend 6 months in the National Labour Service? - Life under the Nazis

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18-25

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All 18-25 year olds had to spend how many years in the army? - Life under the Nazis

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2 years

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What are examples of Germany being self-sufficient? - Life under the Nazis

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Making petrol from coal, making artificial cotton wool from pulped wood

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How did Nazis help/not help farmers? - Life under the Nazis

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Helped - Cut their taxes
Not Helped - Created a law saying that farmers could not divide up their farm and give sections to their children, which stopped farmers keeping farms in their family.

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Name the 2 DAF Trade Union replacements and their roles - Life under the Nazis

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Beauty of Labour - Improved the working conditions and environments of workers
Strength Through Joy - Organised leisure activities to encourage hard work. Reward scheme.

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Name examples of changes to German schooling? - Life under the Nazis

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Maths - asked students to calculate national financial gains without Jews
PE - PE time trebled to emphasise physical fitness in youth
Eugenics - taught inferiority of ethnic minorities and superiority of Aryans

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When was the Hitler Youth set up? - Life under the Nazis

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1922

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What were boys taught in Hitler Youth? - Life under the Nazis

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How to march, how to fight with knives, keeping fit

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What were League of German Girl members taught? - Life under the Nazis

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How to cook meals, how to look after babies, keeping fit

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What actions did Nazis take against women? - Life under the Nazis

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Sacked them from high ranking jobs, banned from jury service (too emotional), banned abortion and contraception

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What encouraged women to have a traditional role? - Life under the Nazis

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Marriage loans were given out which became permanent after having 4 children, motherhood medal awarded to women who had most children, banned from smoking

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What was signed between Hitler and the Pope and when? - Life under the Nazis

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A concordat, in 1933, which meant that neither would interfere with one another’s business

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Nazis killed what fraction of Jehovah’s witnesses and why? - Life under the Nazis

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1/3, because they’re pacifists and wouldn’t serve in the army

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When did BRI and FRA start dropping bombs and how many people were killed in Hamburg and overall? - Life under the Nazis

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1942
45,000 people
800,000 people overall

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What happened to factory work with women and when? - Life under the Nazis

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In 1943, all 17-45 year old childless women were forced into factory work

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Name an example of rationing cuts - Life under the Nazis

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In 1945, only 250g of meat/person/week was distributed to civilians

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How many catholic priests were arrested for sexual or financial impropriety in 1937? - Life under the Nazis

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200, BREAKING HITLER’S CONCORDAT WITH THE POPE

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What did Hitler set up as a religious alternative? - Life under the Nazis

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The German Faith Movement, which used Mein Kampf instead of the Bible

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What was the Reich Church? - Life under the Nazis

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An umbrella organisation which replaced all churches

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When did Kristallnacht happen? - Life under the Nazis

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9th November 1938

More than 1000 synagogues were burned down, according to Heydrich

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What was the Gestapo? - Life under the Nazis

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A secret police force, who hunted out opponents of the Nazis. Could send to concentration camps without trial

30
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How did Hitler influence the courts? - Life under the Nazis

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Hitler controlled all judges, replacing liberal and Jewish judges with Nazi supporters

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Why did Hitler provide cheap radios to all German households? - Life under the Nazis

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So that all Germans were able to listen to Hitler’s rallies (70% had them by 1939)

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When was it legal for Jews to be evicted from their homes without reason? - Life under the Nazis

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April 1939, Jews could be evicted from homes without any reason

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What were the Nuremberg Laws? - Life under the Nazis

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A set of laws made in 1935 which banned Jew-German marriage and also revoked Jews’ German citizenship

34
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Why were homosexuals and the disabled ‘undesirables?’ - Life under the Nazis

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Homosexuals - Could not have children, not traditional values
Disabled - Damaged Hitler’s idea of a strong and fit aryan race

35
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What examples are there of Jewish resistance to Nazi oppression

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Some Jews formed resistance groups in the forests
Blew up railway lines
Treblinka weapon store broken into by a prisoner
WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING OF 1943

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What were Joseph Goebbels’ basic ideas? - Life under the Nazis

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Blaming Jews for Germany’s problems

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In what ways did the Nazis influence arts + culture? - Life under the Nazis

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Music - banned Jazz music because of AF-AM connotations
Books - Created a list of banned books (Mein Kampf became Germany’s best seller)
Films - produced Anti-Semitic films (Suss the Jew (The Story of an Evil Jew)

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What was the National Labour Service, and how was it successful for the Nazis? - Life under the Nazis

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All men aged between 18 + 25 had to spend 6 months in the RAD. They planted trees, did manual work. Had to wear uniforms + live in camps
Successful because these people were classed as employed, meaning unemployment dropped. EARNED VERY LITTLE

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How did Rearmament solve unemployment? - Life under the Nazis

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Made factory work for producing munitions (tanks, planes, guns)
Government contracts were given to factory owners to produce weapons
Conscription was reintroduced in 1939, with all 18-25 men doing 2 years in the army. UNEMPLOYMENT PLUMMETTED

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What size did the army grow from and what to in 5 years? - Life under the Nazis

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Grew from 100,000 to 1,400,000 in 5 years

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What did ‘invisible unemployment’ do and how did it help the Nazis? - Life under the Nazis

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Not included in unemployment figures:
Women who gave up work to care for families
Part time workers (COUNTED AS FULL TIME)
Unemployed Jews not counted in unemployment figures

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How did Hjalmar Schacht attempt to develop Germany’s economy? - Life under the Nazis

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Schacht created trade deals with insecure and undeveloped countries in South America to have their natural resources for use in Germany’s self sufficiency program

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How did Goering try to develop Germany’s economy? - Life under the Nazis

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Implemented the 4 year plan which was supposed to prime Germany for war. Led to an industry boom in steel and explosive industries

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How did/didn’t Nazis help farmers? - Life under the Nazis

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Cut their taxes, assured them of their land even if they were suffering financially
Made laws that they couldn’t divide land between children in order to keep farms in their families

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What percentage of Uni lecturers were sacked by 1939? - Life under the Nazis

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15% for political or racial reasons

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When was Hitler Youth membership made compulsory as it was seen as being as important as school? - Life under the Nazis

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1939

47
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A member of which swing youth group murdered the head of the Cologne Gestapo? - Life under the Nazis

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The Navajos

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What were the 3 Ks of Nazi Women’s life? - Life under the Nazis

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Kinder, Kirche, Küche
Children, Church, Cooking
TRADITIONAL VALUES

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What was the Lebensborn movement? - Life under the Nazis

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The policy to force single women to have children with strong SS soldiers to produce Aryan children

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How might Germans have shown opposition to Nazis? - Life under the Nazis

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Telling an anti-Nazi joke in the privacy of their homes
Refusal to do Nazi salutes, didn’t donate to Hitler youth
Listened to Jazz music, had Jewish friends, spread anti-Nazi propaganda

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When did the July Bomb Plot occur? + what happened? - Life under the Nazis

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In July 1944, military officials decided to try to murder Hitler. The bomb went off, killing 4 men but only injuring Hitler

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What was ‘Total War’? - Life under the Nazis

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Total War was Albert Speer’s plan to focus all of Germany’s efforts on winning WW2
Involved rationing, closing services and drafting women into factories

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When was Kristallnacht? - Life Under the Nazis

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10th November 1938

54
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What law meant that the Hitler youth became legally as important as school?

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Law for the incorporation of German youth- 1936

55
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When did membership of the Hitler youth become compulsory?

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1939

56
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What did Hitler say about the German youth in 1935?

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“Young men and women who can suffer pain. They must be as fast as a greyhound, as tough as leather and as hard as steel.”

57
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What was the membership of Hitler youth clubs in 1933?

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2,292,041

58
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What was the membership of Hitler youth clubs in 1936?

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5,437,601

59
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What was the membership of Hitler youth clubs by 1939?

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7,287,470

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