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2 policies toward women

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Women should not work, especially if married

Women should have at least four children

2
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2 points of the Nazis’ ideal women

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Fair haired and blue eyes (Aryan)

To marry and have children

3
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2 Nazi aims for young people

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To be loyal Nazi supporters

Both sexes to be strong and healthy for their roles

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2 boys youth group activities

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Shooting and military drills

Reporting those who made anti-Nazi comments

5
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2 points of Nazi control of teachers

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Had to be Nazi party members and teach Nazi ideas

Those who didn’t were dismissed

6
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2 points of Nazi propaganda within school

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All lessons began with a Hitler salute

Anti-Semitism was embedded within every lesson

7
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2 aims of the Nazi education policy

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To prepare boys into strong soldiers

To prepare women to be good wives and mothers

8
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2 points of the RAD

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The National Labour Service was compulsory for all men 18-25, from 1935
Pay was low and hours were long and boring may hated)

9
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What was Rearmament

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The Nazi provided jobs through building their stockpile of arms (even though the ToV opposed this)

10
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Unemployment drop from 1933-39

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4.8 million to 0.3 million

11
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2 points of invisible unemployment

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Nazis censored the fact that:
Jews and women were forced out of jobs
Anti-Nazis were sent to concentration camps

12
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What was the DAF?

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The German Labour Front replaced trade unions - workers had to be members

13
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What was Strength through Joy

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The KDF (Strength through joy) aimed to increased worker productivity by providing them with low-cost/free activities for hard workers

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What was the SdA

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The SdA (Beauty of Labour) improved workplace conditions by providing canteens, pools and reducing noise. It wasn’t popular as workers had to construct these themselves

15
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2 points of the Volkswagen

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One KdF scheme was:
Workers paid 5 marks a week towards buying a car
By 1939, no one had paid enough so the money went toward rearmament

16
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1 way standard of living improved in 1939

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Average wage rose by 20% from 1933

17
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2 points of Untermenschen

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Untermenschen meant ‘inferior people’, the Nazis used to describe black people, Slavs and the Jews
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws banned Aryand from marrying them

18
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What were ‘race farms’?

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Places where Aryan men met Aryan women to have Aryan children

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3 points of ‘other undesirables’

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Homosexuals were sent to prison and subjected to medical experiments to correct their ‘disorder’
Mentally handicapped people were sterilised
Mentally and physically handicapped babies were killed

20
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3 points of Jeweish businesses

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1933 - SA pained yellow star on Jewish shops and discouraged people from going in
1937 - Jewish businesses were overtaken by Aryans
1939 - Jews banned from owing businesses

21
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3 points of the Nuremberg Laws

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Created in 1935:
Jews cannot vote and must wear a yellow star on clothes
No jew can marry a German citizen
Jews cannot have a German passport not work for the government

22
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Timeline of Kristallnacht (the Night of the Broken Glass)

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7 November 1938 - 17-year old Jew shot a German in Paris
8 November 1938 - Goebbels used this to attack Jewish homes and synagogues in Hanover
9 November 1938 - Ganga destroy and burn Jewish homes, shops and synagogues

23
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2 consequences of Kristallnacht

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100 Jews were killed and 171 homes destroyed

Jews were fined 1 billion marks as they were blamed