Life in Germany

Question 1

What type of education existed in pre-WW1 Germany?

Answer 1

Lander provided kindergarden for 3-5
w/c went to Volkesschule
mostly confessional schools
Had to pay after 14

Question 2

What types pf schools were set up in WR?

Answer 2

Compulsory Grandschule (6-9) run by Lander

• Common schools- various faiths taught religion separately in same school
• Confessional schools became fee paying
• Secular schools - no RE

Question 3

What were the education articles?

Answer 3

Kept compulsory Grandschule but also kept religion and faith schools

Question 4

What did the government fail to introduce?

Answer 4

A federal school law in 1925 - Reichstag could not agree

Question 5

Who supported the ideas proposed in the federal school law of having both secular and faith schools?

Answer 5

Reich parents league

Question 6

Who opposed the ideas proposed in the federal school law of having both secular and faith schools?

Answer 6

The Volkskirche Association for evangelical freedom

Question 7

How did education remain under the WR?

Answer 7

Remained diverse
29,000 Protestant schools
15,000 catholic schools
8000 common schools

Question 8

What education existed beyond the age of ten?

Answer 8

Fee paying
Hauptschule - went in to apprenticeships/trade
Realschule - business or technical training
Gymnasium - went to uni

Question 9

What exam did you have to pass to go to uni?

Answer 9

Abitur exam

Question 10

What corporations existed in unis?

Answer 10

Duelling corporations

non-duelling corporations

Question 11

Did the WR encourage more w/c to go to uni?

Answer 11

They wanted to but only 2.3% of students had w/c parents

Question 12

Describe culture in WR

Answer 12

Influenced by international developments

Mass (popular) culture

Question 13

How did the WR encourage the film industry to develop?

Answer 13

UFA was a government organised film company dominating the German film market

Question 14

Name an American movie that had an impact

Answer 14

Gold Rush 1925 - Charlie Chaplin silent movie

Question 15

Name two German movies

Answer 15

Blue Angle 1930

Metropolis 1926

Question 16

How many people owned a radio by 1932?

Answer 16

One in Four

Question 17

How did Cabaret mock the conventions of old Germany?

Answer 17

Used satirical comedy, jazz, semi nude dancers, show cased social and political themes

Question 18

Give an example of literature looking at social themes

Answer 18

All Quiet on the Western Front 1928

Question 19

What type of movement emerged in theatre?

Answer 19

New objectivity became Ziettheatre- left wing plays

Question 20

Give an example of a playwright

Answer 20

Brecht

Question 21

What was the Bauhaus movement?

Answer 21

A new style of architecture and design
functional and simple
led by Walter Gropius

Question 22

What movement was linked to Weimar art?

Answer 22

New objectivity

Question 23

Name two famous Weimar artists

Answer 23

Otto Dix and Georg Grosz

Question 24

What messages did artists portray

Answer 24

strong political and social messages

Critical of German degradation

Question 25

How did the T of V affect culture in the WR?

Answer 25

Led to cultural and social experimentation and decadence

Question 26

What was the German Civil Code of 1900?

Answer 26

- Women could not vote - married women had no legal status - women's role was Kinder Kirche Kuche - could not work in law or other professions

Question 27

How did the war help women?

Answer 27

Led to more work - 75% of work fit women working in 1918

Question 28

When did women get vote?

Answer 28

November 1918

Question 29

How many women had seats in Reichstag 1919-32?

Answer 29

112 women

Question 30

What did Article 109 say?

Answer 30

Women had equal rights in principle. Marriage should be equal.

Question 31

Did the Reichstag support women's rights?

Answer 31

Some did, others were concerned by the falling birth rate and high divorce rate

Question 32

Give examples of change for women in work

Answer 32

More white blouse jobs more lawyers number of women doctors doubled 1925-33

Question 33

Give examples of continuity for women in work

Answer 33

- Women paid 33% less in office work - employers preferred single women - hard to find childcare - poorly paid jobs

Question 34

Describe the new women

Answer 34

Flappers - short hair, smoked and drank sexual freedom part of racy city culture

Question 35

Who glorified women as independent role models?

Answer 35

Advertising and film industries

Question 36

What increased hostility towards women?

Answer 36

The depression and unemployment

Question 37

Why did the depression affect women less than men?

Answer 37

Women were cheaper to employ

Question 38

What did Chancellor Bruning do in 1932?

Answer 38

Passed a law saying married women could be fired if their husbands were working

Question 39

Give examples of integration of different groups before 1918

Answer 39

1915 - 1/3 married Jews were married to non-Jews | businesses were integrated

Question 40

Give examples of prejudice before 1918

Answer 40

Protestant prejudice against Catholics | Poles, Gypsies and Jews often regarded as not part of the Volk

Question 41

What did article 113 say?

Answer 41

Minority groups could use their own language and preserve their identity

Question 42

What % of the population was Jewish?

Answer 42

1% in 1918 and 0.76% in 1933

Question 43

What contributions did Jews make to society?

Answer 43

5 Jews had cabinet posts Jewish literature and films 85,000 fought in WW1

Question 44

What was the German Peoples offensive and defensive alliance?

Answer 44

an Anti-Semitic organisation with 170,000 members | banned in 1923

Question 45

Give an example of Antisemitism

Answer 45

conservative judges were anti Semitic Jews blamed for losing the war increase in Antisemitism during depression

Question 46

How did Jews combat Antisemitism?

Answer 46

organisations such as the Reich federation of Jewish front soldiers