Life in DDR

Question 1

when were schools officially opened

Answer 1

1 October 1945

Question 2

how many teachers dismissed

Answer 2

80%

Question 3

what were main feature of DDR welfare

Answer 3

free health care

Question 4

what was problem w/ accommodation

Answer 4

dresden + berlin bombed

Question 5

how was accommodation problem solved

Answer 5

peaked 1952 at 100,000 houses per year - soviet style blocks

Question 6

why did soviets want to change school system

Answer 6

mirrored bourgeois social classes - had contributed to rise nazis

Question 7

main aims of soviet system school

Answer 7

equal opportunities / extend technical +practical sklls

Question 8

what law was put into effect to reform skls and when by who

Answer 8

law for democratisation german schools 1946 SMAD and SED

Question 9

what did law for democratisation german schools do

Answer 9

-abolished selective schools - grundschule - new skl 6-14

Question 10

what did soviets want to do in higher education

Answer 10

increase social mobility + egalitarianism –> no academic hierarchy polytechnic education

Question 11

main features of DDR skl

Answer 11

Polytechnic Upper Schools POS - 10 yr system compulsory + centralised

Question 12

downsides of education

Answer 12

-no self expression - pupils protest at skl in werdau against voting lit imprisoned for 2-15yr

Question 13

how did skls become effective tool to influence ppl to conform

Answer 13

-skl admin could block career admin - had to commit to political system to reach UNI

Question 14

comparison GNP on skl

Answer 14

7% in DDR but 5% BRD

Question 15

evidence of increased social mobility

Answer 15

% uni students from working class from 19% to 36% 1949

Question 16

how did DDR become victim own success

Answer 16

over qualified graduates - POS skl reduce drop outs

Question 17

positive changes in schools - investment and evidence of success

Answer 17

7% GNP to education 
-working class kids 19% to 36% 1946-49

Question 18

negative changes in schools

Answer 18

-no self expression - pupils at skl of Werdau imprisoned 15 years for protest against voting list of volksammer

Question 19

what process began in skills October 1945

Answer 19

purging of nazi values 80% teachers dismissed

Question 20

what did the FDJ become in 1957

Answer 20

only youth organisation in DDR

Question 21

what was FDJ

Answer 21

based on marxist Leninist

Question 22

FDJ membership 1950

Answer 22

3 million - ppl join to not be discriminated against

Question 23

BUT success of FDJ limited

Answer 23

young East Germans led 1960’s ‘rocknroll’ lifestyle - ‘double life’ due to old fashioned Komsomol nature

Question 24

what was the Komsomol

Answer 24

USSR youth group - FDJ replicates

Question 25

main feature of BRD welfare

Answer 25

free healthcare + pensions

Question 26

perceived success of welfare in DDR

Answer 26

1959 100,000 homes built per year

Question 27

but dismiss perceived success fo welfare homes

Answer 27

in style of soviet flats = dreary

Question 28

how many religious ppl in DDR 1950

Answer 28

90% christian

Question 29

what department was set up to wither away religion

Answer 29

department for ecclesiastical affairs

Question 30

evidence of churches being restricted

Answer 30

Stasi placed IM in congregations + junge gemeinde (protestant youth group) prevented from skl + uni 1953

Question 31

1952 evidence of suppression of clergy

Answer 31

50 clergymen arrested

Question 32

CA to suppression of churches

Answer 32

1970 half population professed christians

Question 33

what was jugendweiche

Answer 33

atheist imitation ceremony 1955 - all youth had to do

Question 34

what can be said about women in DDR

Answer 34

perceived gender equality but really only achieved in parts due to economic necessity of time

Question 35

evidence of women succeeding in DDR

Answer 35

1949 constitution proclaim men + women equal

Question 36

BUT dismiss consituin

Answer 36

1947 pensions of widows repealed due to economic diffcilutlies

Question 37

evidence of negatives for women

Answer 37

abortion not allowed until 1972

Question 38

CA to thesis on women of school

Answer 38

DDR above BRD in skl 1961 25% women in uni

Question 39

BUT dismiss CA on woken in skl

Answer 39

equality not enforced in workforce - not until 1966 family law aided women

Question 40

so overall women in ddr

Answer 40

changed only in small parts - women join workforce due to economic necessity and no aid w/ maternity life

Question 41

decieving evidence of success in DDR standard living

Answer 41

31% own fridges 1966

Question 42

CA to success of DDR standard living

Answer 42

HO shops overpriced luxury good - 12 marks for kg sugar but worker owns 345 marks a month

Question 43

evidence of success for trade unions in DDR

Answer 43

DDR more classless and fairer society

Question 44

BUT disadvantages of DDR in workers

Answer 44

FDGB ( trade union) regularly purged to be loyal instrument to SED

Question 45

what did Gunter gas refer to eats German society as

Answer 45

'niche society' - ppl lead parallel lives with private niches (e.g. church) and work for state