Nazi Social, Economic and Racial Policy

Question 1

3 rs relating what Hitler does to try and solve the economic issues

Answer 1

Rule reduce reward

Question 2

3 ways Hitler reduces unemployment

Answer 2

Conscription
Rearmament
RAD (National Labour Service Corps)

Question 3

What does the RAD stand for

Answer 3

The National Labour Service Corps

Question 4

What was the RAD (National Labour Service Corps)

Answer 4

From 1935
Compulsory 6 months of work for men aged 18-25
E.g planting trees, building hospitals, building autobahns
Very low wages, given very little food, wore uniforms, lived in camps, carried out military drills

Question 5

One way Hitler ruled the workforce

Answer 5

1933 Set up DAF and trade Unions were banned

Question 6

When did Hitler set up DAF and trade Unions were banned

Answer 6

1933

Question 7

What does DAF stand for

Answer 7

The German Labour Front

Question 8

How did the DAF being set up in 1933 rule the workforce

Answer 8

Hitler had full control of workers
Workers banned from strikes, given quite high wages and controlled employers with employment rights

Question 9

2 ways Hitler rewarded the workforce

Answer 9

Strength through joy
Beauty of labour

Question 10

What was KDF (strength through joy)

Answer 10

Organised leisure time for workers to reward their hard work
E.g theatre trips, cruises, holidays

Question 11

What did the 3 Ks stand for in terms of women

Answer 11

Children
Church
Cooking

Question 12

True or false, Hitler agreed with the freedom that women had gained during the golden age of Weimar

Answer 12

False
He wanted to reverse this to make them traditional housewives again

Question 13

What did Hitler believe the role of women should be

Answer 13

Traditional housewives (in charge of domestic work)

Question 14

True or false, Hitler allowed women to be teachers and doctors etc

Answer 14

False
He thought women should be inferior to men and should revert to traditional housewives

Question 15

German word for ‘People’s community’

Answer 15

Volksgemeinshaft

Question 16

True or false, the Nazis believed women were just as important as men

Answer 16

True
Even though they were treated as inferior the Nazis believed that the women’s role as a mother would be very important in building the Volksgemeknshaft

Question 17

2 key laws for women

Answer 17

The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage 1933
Lebensborn (Life Springs programme) 1936

Question 18

What was the 1933 Law for the Encouragement of Marriage

Answer 18

Introduced to help increase birth rate to to help build and expand the Master race

Question 19

What was Lebensborn (Life Springs Programme) 1936

Answer 19

Unmarried Aryan women made pregnant by ‘racially pure’ SS men

Question 20

Aryan meaning

Answer 20

Anyone non Jewish
(Thought to be ‘pure’ German)

Question 21

How did the Nazis help to increase the birth rate and strengthen the Master Race

Answer 21

Encourage more births: Law for the Encouragement of Marriage 1933
Lebensborn 1936
Women given medals for the more children that they had
Nuremberg Laws 1935

Question 22

What year were the Nuremberg Laws introduced

Answer 22

1935

Question 23

What year was Lebensborn

Answer 23

1936

Question 24

What year was the Law for the encouragement of marriage

Answer 24

1933

Question 25

What were the Nuremberg Laws 1935

Answer 25

Marriages between Aryans ('pure Germans') and Jews banned

Question 26

What 'look' did Nazis want women to have

Answer 26

Blond Heavy hipped Athletic Flat shoes Full skirt No make up Wear hair in bun/ plait

Question 27

Indoctrination meaning

Answer 27

Making someone think a certain way

Question 28

What did Hitler use to indoctrinate Nazis' ideals onto the German Youth

Answer 28

The education system

Question 29

True or false, the Nazis used school as a tool to indoctrinate children on the Nazi ways of life

Answer 29

True

Question 30

What lessons did boys learn in school and why

Answer 30

Maths (to do with firing guns) and PE (get them fitter and stronger) Prepare them for the army

Question 31

What lessons did girls do in school and why

Answer 31

Cooking and learning how to bring up a child to help prepare them for being a traditional housewife

Question 32

Key lessons in Nazi school that helped get across Hitler's anti- semestic views

Answer 32

Race studies (put across Nazi views of race and population control) Geography (show how Germany was surrounded by hostile neighbours) History (portray TofV and communism as evil things Biology (study racial theory and importance of 'master race')

Question 33

What did all lessons start and end with

Answer 33

Salute saying Heil Hitler

Question 34

What did all teachers have to belong to

Answer 34

The Nazi Teacher's League They had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler + promote Nazi ideas in the classroom

Question 35

The Nazis used history lessons to show what

Answer 35

Germany was surrounded by hostile neighbours TofV and communism were evil things

Question 36

How did the Hitler ensure teachers were promoting Nazi views in the classroom

Answer 36

They had to swear oath of loyalty to Hitler Had to join Nazi teachers' league

Question 37

When was the Hitler Youth Movement introduced

Answer 37

1925

Question 38

When was the Hitler Youth made compulsory

Answer 38

1939

Question 39

What tasks did boys do in the Hitler Youth

Answer 39

Military drills e.g shooting, map reading, drills Athletics Hiking Camping

Question 40

By 1939 how many members did the Hitler Youth have including boys and girls

Answer 40

7 million

Question 41

Persecution meaning

Answer 41

Ill and unfair treatment

Question 42

Examples of groups of people persecuted by the Nazis

Answer 42

Ill Disabled Jewish Sinti and Roma

Question 43

Scapegoat meaning

Answer 43

A thing that takes the blame for others (e.g Jews for the war)

Question 44

Hitler refereed to Jews as s....

Answer 44

Subhumans

Question 45

True or false, Hitler thought it was necessary to introduce selective breeding and destroying Jews to achieve his 'master race'

Answer 45

True

Question 46

When did Kristallnacht occur

Answer 46

November 1938

Question 47

What does Kristillnact mean

Answer 47

The Night of broken glass

Question 48

What happened in Kristillnacht November 1938

Answer 48

A Polish Jew assassinated a German in the German Embassy in Paris Goebbels uses this as opportunity to retaliate against the Jews so organised attacks on Jewish property across Germany (shops, synagogues etc)

Question 49

What event stimulated kristillnacht

Answer 49

November 1938 Polish Jew assassinates German in the German embassy, Paris (Goebbels use some this as an opportunity to retaliate against the Jews by destroying Jewish properties)

Question 50

How many Jewish businesses were destroyed in Kristallnacht

Answer 50

Over 7,500

Question 51

How many Jews were killed in Kristallnacht

Answer 51

100

Question 52

In 1933 what boycott was organised by the SA

Answer 52

Jewish shops and businesses

Question 53

In what year were Jewish people evicted (expelled) from their homes and sent to ghettos

Answer 53

1939

Question 54

Examples of

Question 55

Examples of public works programmes (The RAD often did these)

Answer 55

Planting trees, building autobahns and hospitals

Question 56

What car related scheme was launched in 1938

Answer 56

Volkswagen scheme DAF workers had opportunity to save money to buy their own car

Question 57

Was the Volkswagen scheme aimed at rewarding, reducing or ruling the workforce

Answer 57

Rewarding (Workers could save up to buy car)

Question 58

How big was the army in 1939

Answer 58

1.4 million

Question 59

All textbooks had to be approved by what

Answer 59

The ministry of education

Question 60

Name for Hitler youth for girls

Answer 60

German league of Maidens