Life In Nazi Germany

Question 0

Why were young people seen as the most important in the ‘People’s Community’?

Answer 0

They had yet to be fully influenced so they could become a generation of national socialists

Question 1

Why was the strength through joy programme run?

Answer 1

So workers didn’t have any free time to think for themselves

Question 2

How did nazis change education?

Answer 2

They altered old subjects to give them nazi aspects, and invented new ones

Question 3

What was the most significant new subject invented by nazis?

Answer 3

Racial theory

Question 4

How was racial theory demonstrated in class?

Answer 4

Jewish students were used as live examples

Question 5

What did teachers have to do to remain employed?

Answer 5

Join the German teachers league

Question 6

What did German Teachers League do?

Answer 6

Made sure teachers only taught nazi ideas

Question 7

What is a Landjahr?

Answer 7

A year of national service for young adults

Question 8

What nazi youth group was there for boys aged 6-10?

Answer 8

Cubs

Question 9

What nazi youth group was there for girls aged 6-10?

Answer 9

None

Question 10

What nazi youth group was there for boys aged 10-14?

Answer 10

Young German Boys

Question 11

What nazi youth group was there for girls aged 10-14?

Answer 11

Young German Girls

Question 12

What nazi youth group was there for boys aged 14-18?

Answer 12

Hitler youth

Question 13

What nazi youth group was there for girls aged 14-18?

Answer 13

League of German Girls

Question 14

What nazi youth group was there for boys aged 18-21?

Answer 14

None

Question 15

What nazi youth group was there for girls aged 18-21?

Answer 15

Faith and Beauty

Question 16

What was expected of boys aged 18?

Answer 16

They were expected to be working full time or in the army

Question 17

What did Nazi youth groups do in the war?

Answer 17

Ran messages for officials
Helped fire fighters and air raid wardens
Girls filled factories
Hitler youth had a tank division

Question 18

What percentage of eligible yours were in nazi youth groups by the end of the 1930’s?

Answer 18

82

Question 19

Why might the figure of 82% of youths in nazi youth groups be a misrepresentation of political support?

Answer 19

Some may have joined to stay out of trouble
Some may have been forced to join
Some simply joined for the leisure activities

Question 20

What showed that Hitler had succeeded in building the next generation of nazis?

Answer 20

German people were willing to fight to the death for Hitler

Young people would report their own parents for opposing the nazis

Question 21

Did Hitler want women to work in factories?

Answer 21

No

Question 22

What was a ‘duty year’ for women?

Answer 22

Where they would do a years work for the good of the state

Question 23

Who was minister for economy in 1934?

Answer 23

Hjalmar Schacht

Question 24

What public works did nazis build?

Answer 24

Motorways | Swimming pools

Question 25

What was the aim of the DAF

Answer 25

To promote goodwill between the government and the workers

Question 26

What is autarky?

Answer 26

National self suffiency

Question 27

What does Blitzkrieg mean?

Answer 27

Lighting war

Question 28

How did Germany try to achieve autarky?

Answer 28

Increasing the production of food and steel etc

Question 29

Did the drive for autarky work?

Answer 29

No

Question 30

Who was Germany reliant on?

Answer 30

Iron ore from Sweden Oil from Russia Wood from Norway

Question 31

How did the invading and taking over Austria and Czechoslovakia benefit the German economy?

Answer 31

Austria gave Germany a supply of iron ore | Czechoslovakia had very advanced heavy industry

Question 32

How did nazis have achieve autarky in the end?

Answer 32

They traded goods between their conquered counties

Question 33

How did German people benefit from rations?

Answer 33

40% of Germans ate better as a result of rations

Question 34

What was the highest number of German casualties from 1 bombing?

Answer 34

30,000

Question 35

What happened when the rationing system broke down?

Answer 35

Germans relied on the black market, or animals that died in bombings

Question 36

How did normal civilians try to survive when allied soldiers entered Germany?

Answer 36

Destroyed any evidence they supported nazis

Question 37

How many Germans died as a result of the 2nd WW?

Answer 37

3.5 million

Question 38

What is total war?

Answer 38

Government takes special powers to focus all the country's effort on the war

Question 39

Who was Albert Speer?

Answer 39

Minister for Armaments

Question 40

When was total war announced?

Answer 40

Feb 1943

Question 41

How was productivity increased in factories during the war?

Answer 41

They worked around the clock rather than in the day

Question 42

Who were the Einsatzgruppen?

Answer 42

Groups of SS men whose job was to dispose of undesirable people

Question 43

Who came up with the final solution?

Answer 43

SS men