hitler (social and economic)

Question 1

discuss economy and hitlers role

Answer 1

• had little interest in complex economy left it to “experts in the business industry”
• aka Hjalmer Schach (reich minister of economy)

Question 2

what were unemployment rates

Answer 2

dropped from 6 mill in 1932 to under 1 mil in 1939

Question 3

what were examples of why they dropped so low

Answer 3

• rearmament
• public works
• autobahn

Question 4

what was the DAF

Answer 4

was coordinated workforce

Question 5

what was the RAD

Answer 5

attacked unemployment through conscription

Question 6

what happened to those who refused to work

Answer 6

labelled “workshy” and sent to concentration camps for “re-education”

Question 7

did wages improve

Answer 7

remained below 1928 levels until 1939

Question 8

what was the policy that shows nazi priorities

Answer 8

“Guns before Butter”

Question 9

what was one of the most significant work programs

Answer 9

• strength through joy= KdF
• by 1938 created over 10 mil holodays for workers

Question 10

can you give me evidence for industrial success

Answer 10

industrial production doubled from 1933-38

Question 11

what was one of the failures of industrialisation

Answer 11

debt= 40 bil but mefo bills helped to stop hyper inflation again

Question 12

can you name agricultural successes

Answer 12

• increased grain from 16.6 mil tonnes to 20.4 mil from 1933-39
• reich food estate= centralised control on agriculture which stabilised quota and input

Question 13

name agricultural failures

Answer 13

• food shortages= imported 40 percent of food
• small farms decreased with 500,000 going bankrupt

Question 14

can you describe the four year plan (when, who, successes/ failures)

Answer 14

• under herman goering
  sought autarky and war ready economy
• coal= 244 mil to 300 mil tonnes from 1936-38
• spent 10 bil on military

Question 15

what did tim mason say about economy

Answer 15

• “dictated by the needs of war”

Question 16

how were jews portrayed in propaganda (remember teachers!)

Answer 16

• portrayed as “Parasites”
• in movies ex “eternal jew”
  in children books “Der Giftpilz2
• banned jewish teachers from 97 percent of schools by 1938

Question 17

how was hitler portrayed in propaganda

Answer 17

• father figure
• “ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer”= simple yet effective

Question 18

what was the idea of peoples community

Answer 18

• volksgemeinschaft
• Detlev Peukert- historian= “became a justification for exclusion and extermination”

Question 19

what were the nuremberg rallies

Answer 19

attracted hundered of thousands reinforcing sense of unity and cult of hitler
- quotes such as
“We shall rise from the ashes, we shall triumph our enemies and we shall restore our honour”

Question 20

describe effect on youth

Answer 20

• hitler youth membership= 7 mil by 1939
• league of German girls
  -mandatory from ages 10-18 by 1939
  250,000 fought in war

Question 21

describe resistance of the youth

Answer 21

• edelweiss pirates = 2,000 plus members- mostly kids and young adults (14-18)
• 13 = publically executed by gestapo in 1944 violently in streets
• did graffiti and destroyed nazi symbols

Question 22

hitlers famous quote about the youth

Answer 22

“he who owns the youth gains the future”

Question 23

describe the propaganda and who controlled ti

Answer 23

• goebbels propaganda machine
  = 70 percent of germans owned radios by 1939
• messages such as “We are determined to take back our land, and we are determined to make germany great again”

Question 24

what statistic shows the fear instilled and compliance of population

Answer 24

• 93 percent of reports against jews were made by civilians

Question 25

what were some marriage incentives hitler made

Answer 25

Marriage Loans Offered from to Aryan couples; one-quarter of the loan was given for each child born. basically A newly married Aryan couple could apply for a loan of 1,000 Reichsmarks (a significant amount at the time). The wife had to leave her job to qualify — the aim was to remove women from the workforce and focus on family. For each child born, 25% of the loan was cancelled. So: After 1 child: 25% cancelled After 2 children: 50% cancelled After 4 children: Entire loan wiped out

Question 26

women in unis

Answer 26

were restricted to being only 10 percent of number by 1939

Question 27

stats for women employment

Answer 27

14 million by 1939

Question 28

what was key phrase for women

Answer 28

"kinder, kurche, kirche"

Question 29

what was a main method of hitlers christian church tactics

Answer 29

reich church= aligned with portestant nazi ideals in 1933

Question 30

what was opposed to the reich church

Answer 30

the Confessing Church, led by Martin Niemöller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Question 31

what was hitlers main method with catholic churches

Answer 31

Concordat signed in July 1933 between the Vatican and Nazis, supposedly guaranteeing Church rights.

Question 32

how did the concordat escalate

Answer 32

Banning youth Catholic groups Closing Catholic schools Arresting priests and lay leaders (e.g., 2,500 Catholic clergy were sent to concentration camps like Dachau

Question 33

what was the result of hitlers supression of religion

Answer 33

Despite Nazi attempts to create a new quasi-religion (e.g., the German Faith Movement), Christianity remained dominant.