History Module 8

Question 1

How did the Nazis indoctrinate children?

Answer 1

The school curriculum and youth organisations.

Question 2

What made Nazi youth organisations appealing to young people?

Answer 2

• Leisure activities
• All alternatives banned/absorbed
• Massively counted towards jobs/apprenticeships

Question 3

How did the Nazis use children to control their parents?

Answer 3

Children were taught their first loyalty was to Hitler, not their families. They were encouraged to tell teachers if their parents expressed anti-Nazi sentiment.

Question 4

What were the expectations of women in Nazi Germany?

Answer 4

• Be fit, healthy and naturally beautiful
• Marry Aryan men
• Have many children
• Stay at home and don’t work

Question 5

What incentives were there for women to adhere to expectations?

Answer 5

• German Maiden’s League taught the three Ks - children, kitchen, church
• Mother’s Cross (financial incentive) awarded for 4, 6, or 8 children

Question 6

How did war impact the expectations of women?

Answer 6

• Expected to work and contribute to the war effort
• Still expected to have children

Question 7

What were the economic benefits of living under Nazi rule?

Answer 7

• Growing economy
• Public works projects
• Falling unemployment

Question 8

What economic harm did Nazi rule bring?

Answer 8

• Jews forced from jobs
• Jewish businesses confiscated
• Women pressured to leave jobs
• More hours for wages less than before the depression
• Government in severe debt

Question 9

What events significantly decreased morale over the second world war?

Answer 9

• Invasion of the USSR
• Services closing in favour of armament
• The bombing of Dresden

Question 10

How were Jewish people harmed in ghettos/labour & death camps?

Answer 10

• Old/sick/children killed
• Adults used a slave labour
• People used as medical experiments

Question 11

What groups held responsibility for the ‘Final Solution’?

Answer 11

• Hitler
• The Civil Service
• Police forces
• The army
• Industry
• The German people

Question 12

Why wasn’t there more opposition during WW2?

Answer 12

• Nazi terror state (SS & Gestapo)
• The ‘Hitler Myth’
• Divided opposition
• Approval of Nazis (early war years)
• Propaganda/censorship