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Life In Nazi Germany Flashcards

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

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

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Why was the strength through joy programme run?

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

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How did nazis change education?

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

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What was the most significant new subject invented by nazis?

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Racial theory

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How was racial theory demonstrated in class?

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Jewish students were used as live examples

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5
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What did teachers have to do to remain employed?

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Join the German teachers league

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What did German Teachers League do?

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Made sure teachers only taught nazi ideas

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What is a Landjahr?

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A year of national service for young adults

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

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Cubs

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9
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What nazi youth group was there for girls aged 6-10?

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None

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

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Young German Boys

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

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Young German Girls

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12
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What nazi youth group was there for boys aged 14-18?

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Hitler youth

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

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League of German Girls

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

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None

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15
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What nazi youth group was there for girls aged 18-21?

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Faith and Beauty

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16
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What was expected of boys aged 18?

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

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17
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What did Nazi youth groups do in the war?

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

18
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What percentage of eligible yours were in nazi youth groups by the end of the 1930’s?

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82

19
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Why might the figure of 82% of youths in nazi youth groups be a misrepresentation of political support?

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

20
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What showed that Hitler had succeeded in building the next generation of nazis?

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German people were willing to fight to the death for Hitler

Young people would report their own parents for opposing the nazis

21
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Did Hitler want women to work in factories?

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No

22
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What was a ‘duty year’ for women?

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

23
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Who was minister for economy in 1934?

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Hjalmar Schacht

24
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What public works did nazis build?

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Motorways

Swimming pools

25
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What was the aim of the DAF

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To promote goodwill between the government and the workers

26
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What is autarky?

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National self suffiency

27
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What does Blitzkrieg mean?

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Lighting war

28
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How did Germany try to achieve autarky?

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Increasing the production of food and steel etc

29
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Did the drive for autarky work?

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No

30
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Who was Germany reliant on?

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Iron ore from Sweden
Oil from Russia
Wood from Norway

31
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How did the invading and taking over Austria and Czechoslovakia benefit the German economy?

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Austria gave Germany a supply of iron ore

Czechoslovakia had very advanced heavy industry

32
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How did nazis have achieve autarky in the end?

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They traded goods between their conquered counties

33
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How did German people benefit from rations?

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40% of Germans ate better as a result of rations

34
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What was the highest number of German casualties from 1 bombing?

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30,000

35
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What happened when the rationing system broke down?

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

36
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How did normal civilians try to survive when allied soldiers entered Germany?

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Destroyed any evidence they supported nazis

37
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How many Germans died as a result of the 2nd WW?

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3.5 million

38
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What is total war?

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

39
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Who was Albert Speer?

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Minister for Armaments

40
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When was total war announced?

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Feb 1943

41
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How was productivity increased in factories during the war?

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They worked around the clock rather than in the day

42
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Who were the Einsatzgruppen?

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

43
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Who came up with the final solution?

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SS men

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