Life in Nazi Germany 1933-39

Question 1

what did nazis think of women?

Answer 1

they should be child bearers and not go out

Question 2

what was the nazi slogan for women?

Answer 2

kinder, kirche, kuche (children, church and cooking)

Question 3

what were women not allowed to do?

Answer 3

wear makeup, dye hair, get perms and discouraged from slimming

Question 4

what were girls taught?

Answer 4

to marry proper germans and keep a decent home

Question 5

what happened women in high jobs?

Answer 5

they were sacked

Question 6

what was the lebensborn project?

Answer 6

set up by Himmler in 1935 to encourage single women to breed with SS men

Question 7

what was duty year?

Answer 7

women could work patriotically in factories to help the nazi economic miracle

Question 8

what was the 12th August?

Answer 8

every year the motherhood cross would be awarded to women who had given birth to the largest amount of children (8=gold 6=silver and 4=bronze)

Question 9

what was the first book a child was taught in kindergarten?

Answer 9

primer

Question 10

what was on the front cover of primer?

Answer 10

truest no fox on the green heath trust no jew on his oath

Question 11

what were children taught in biology?

Answer 11

about the Aryan race

Question 12

what would teachers enter the classroom doing?

Answer 12

nazi salute saying heil hitler

Question 13

what happened to all textbooks?

Answer 13

they were re written by the nazis

Question 14

what happened to Jewish teachers?

Answer 14

they were dismissed

Question 15

when was the hitler youth made compulsory?

Answer 15

1936

Question 16

what was banned in 1933?

Answer 16

all non-nazi youth groups

Question 17

how did the membership of the hitler youth increase from 1936 to 1939?

Answer 17

1936=5.4 million members

1939=7 million members

Question 18

what did girls join?

Answer 18

the german league of maidens

Question 19

what did girls learn to do in the german league of maidens?

Answer 19

physical fitness, how to keep a good home and raise children

Question 20

what were boys taught?

Answer 20

marching, grenade throwing, trench digging, map reading

Question 21

what was the reich labour service? (RAD)

Answer 21

provided young men with manual labour jobs

Question 22

what was compulsory from 1935?

Answer 22

men aged 18-25 had to serve in the RAD for 6 months

Question 23

by 1939 how many marks had been spent on rearmament?

Answer 23

26 billion

Question 24

what was rearmament?

Answer 24

more money was spent on manufacturing weapons and other heavy industry grew

Question 25

what did autobahns do?

Answer 25

improved efficiency of german industry by allowing goods to cross the country more quickly and enabled swift transportation of german troops

Question 26

how many marks were spent on job creation schemes in 1933?

Answer 26

18.4 billion

Question 27

what was invisible employment?

Answer 27

people dismissed by the nazis as subhuman were not counted as unemployed so employment rates appeared to be high

Question 28

what was strength through joy?

Answer 28

ideas to try and reward workers by providing them with leisure activities for working hard

Question 29

what was the Volkswagen scheme/swindle?

Answer 29

encouraged people to save up by putting money away every week to buy a Volkswagen - no one ever got one

Question 30

what was the beauty of labour?

Answer 30

tried to improve working conditions by adding canteens, toilets and improving lighting in workplaces but employers had to install it themselves with their own money

Question 31

what did the 1933 law of sterilisation state?

Answer 31

allowed all of those with disabilities to be sterilised as they were a burden to the community

Question 32

what happened to homosexuals?

Answer 32

they were taken to concentration camps

Question 33

what happened to gypsies?

Answer 33

they were banned from marrying germans because they threatened racial purity

Question 34

what were the 1935 Nuremberg laws?

Answer 34

reich citizenship law stated only those of german blood could be german citizens meaning jews lost citizenship and right to vote law for the protection of german blood and honour forbade marriages between germans and jews

Question 35

what was kristallnacht?

Answer 35

Goebbels ordered attacks on Jewish property, shops, homes and synagogues

Question 36

when was kristallnacht?

Answer 36

8th November 1938

Question 37

what were jews banned from in 1934?

Answer 37

public spaces

Question 38

what happened on the 31st April 1939?

Answer 38

jews were forced into ghettos

Question 39

how many jews had left germany by the summer o 1939?

Answer 39

250,000