Nazi economic, social and racial policy

Question 1

From what year was the National Labour Service Corps (RAD) compulsory for all men aged 18-25

Answer 1

1935

Question 2

In what year was this extended to women?

Answer 2

1939

Question 3

How many km’s of autobahns were built in Germany

Answer 3

7000km (highspeed highway’s)

Question 4

What ‘second class citizens’ were dismissed from their jobs

Answer 4

Jew’s

Question 5

By 1939, How many out of a workforce of 25 million were listed as unemployed

Answer 5

35,000

Question 6

What year was conscription reintroduced

Answer 6

1935

Question 7

What did the army grow to by 1939

Answer 7

1,400,000

Question 8

How many mark’s were spent on rearmament by 1939

Answer 8

26 billion

Question 9

What heavy duty industries output doubled between 1933 and 1939

Answer 9

Coal and Chemical

Question 10

What did Hitler ban in 1933 and replace it with

Answer 10

He banned all trade unions and replaced it with the DAF

Question 11

How many people were in the DAF

Answer 11

Largest organisation in Nazi Germany with 22 million members

Question 12

How were worker’s treated in the DAF?

Answer 12

Worker’s were given relatively high wages, job security and social programme’s

Question 13

What ‘scam’ scheme did the DAF launch and why did they not follow through with it?

Answer 13

They launched the Volkswagen scheme however not a single customer received one as production shifted to military vehicles

Question 14

What did the strength through joy programme offer

Answer 14

Concerts, sporting events, holidays
In 1938, about 10 million people went on KdF holidays

Question 15

In what year did how many million people go on KdF holiday’s?

Answer 15

In 1938, about 10 million people went on KdF holidays

Question 16

What programme was set up by the KdF to improve working conditions

Answer 16

Beauty of Work

Question 17

What did the Beauty of Work programme do?

Answer 17

Organised building of canteens swimming pool’s and sport facilities

Question 18

What did Nazi ideals suggest the ideal women was?

Answer 18

-Very traditional
- Did not wear makeup, did not work and no interest in politics

Question 19

What were Nazi women encouraged and discouraged to do?

Answer 19

Encouraged to keep healthy and wear hair in buns/plaits
Discourage from slimming as it was bad for childbearing

Question 20

What Law was passed to increase Germany’s birth rate?

Answer 20

The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage

Question 21

What medal was awarded for Women and how was it systemed?

Answer 21

The Mother’s Cross
Bronze - 4/5
Silver - 6/7
Gold - 8+

Question 22

What programme was set up to force unmarried women to become pregnant by ‘racially pure’ SS men?

Answer 22

The Lebensborn (Life Springs) programme

Question 23

What were the 3 K’s women were encouraged to live by

Answer 23

Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
Children, Kitchen, Church

Question 24

What professional roles were women forced to give up

Answer 24

Doctor’s, Teachers
- However this policy was reversed in 1937

Question 25

What did school teachers have to do and join?

Answer 25

They had to swear loyalty to Hitler and join the Nazi Teachers' League

Question 26

By 1936, what percent of teacher's were member's of the Nazi Party

Answer 26

36%

Question 27

How was school life changed?

Answer 27

All lessons began and ended with 'Heil Hitler' 15% devoted to PE

Question 28

What did the Hitler Youth do?

Answer 28

Controlled the spare time of the young and indoctrinated ideals such as leadership principle and racial purity was enforced

Question 29

By what year was membership compulsory and how many member's were there?

Answer 29

1939 - 7 million member's

Question 30

What were Hitler's beliefs regarding the Jew's?

Answer 30

Hitler viewed them as second class, subhuman,

Question 31

What does subhuman mean in German

Answer 31

Untermenschen

Question 32

How would Hitler hope to create a pure racial state?

Answer 32

By selectively breeding and destroying the Jew's

Question 33

Who controlled the school's and put anti-semetic material into every classroom

Answer 33

Ministry of Education

Question 34

What were Jewish teachers forbidden to do?

Answer 34

Given private tuition to German students

Question 35

In 1938, what happened to Jewish children

Answer 35

They were expelled from German schools - constant aggression caused many Jew's to leave Germany

Question 36

What was the progression of Jewish hatred?

Answer 36

1933 - SA organised boycott 1934 - Local councils banned Jew's from parks and pool's 1935 - Nuremberg law's passed

Question 37

What key event ignited Hatred within the Germans and allowed Goebells to propaganda max against the Jew's?

Answer 37

A Polish Jew assassinated a German in the German embassy

Question 38

What did Goebells do as a result of the German assasination in the Embassy?

Answer 38

He used this as an opportunity for retaliation against the JEWS

Question 39

What was the German societal response of the German assassination in the Embassy?

Answer 39

Attacks on Jewish property Shops and synagogues destroyed

Question 40

What date was the German societal response to the assassination and what were these event's called?

Answer 40

9-10th November 1938 - Kristallnacht

Question 41

What were the Jewish statistical losses from Kristallnacht?

Answer 41

100 Jews killed 20,000 sent to concentration camps 7500 businesses destroyed

Question 42

Who did Hitler further blame for the damages of Kristallnacht

Answer 42

He OFFICIALLY blamed the Jew's for provoking the attacks and they were fined 1 billion Reichsmarks

Question 43

From the 30th April 1939, what finally happened to the Jew's?

Answer 43

They were evicted from their homes and forced into ghettos They were forced to hand in their radio set to not listen to foreign news