Topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-39

Question 1

What were the 3 K’s?

Answer 1

Children, Kitchen and Church - Emphasised traditional family roles

Question 2

What was the Mother’s Cross?

Answer 2

The mother’s cross encouraged childbirth as it awarded women for the number of children they had: bronze for 4/5 children, silver for 6/7 and gold for 8. Medals were awarded on Hitler’s birthday.

Question 3

How much money was loaned to mothers under the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage?

Answer 3

1,000 marks

Question 4

What did the Lebensborn encourage German woman to do?

Answer 4

Have babies with aryan men

Question 5

By 1938, how many boys in the Hitler Youth were being trained in small-arms shooting?

Answer 5

1.2 million

Question 6

What did all teachers have to join in order to teach in Nazi Germany?

Answer 6

Nazi Teachers’ League - All teachers had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler

Question 7

What was the Labour Service (RAD)?

Answer 7

-Provided work for the unemployed
-Provided workers for public works such as repairing roads or planting trees
-It became compulsory for all men 18-25 to serve for 6 months
-Helped build 7000 miles of autobahn
-Poor pay and conditions

Question 8

What was Rearmament?

Answer 8

-Conscription - All young men had to serve in the armed forces
-26 billion marks spent on arms
-72,000 employed in aircraft construction

Question 9

What was Strength Through Joy?

Answer 9

Strength Through Joy offered benefits for workers such as sports events, cruises or films. By 1936 there were 35 million members.

Question 10

What was Beauty of Labour?

Answer 10

Improved working conditions for workers by encouraging employers to tidy up their work place in their own time.

Question 11

What was the T4 Programme?

Answer 11

Where babies with severe mental of physical disabilities were killed by starvation or an overdose of drugs.

Question 12

What sparked Kristallnacht?

Answer 12

Herr Vom Rath (loyal Nazi) was murdered by a Polish Jew in France. Goebbels then ordered local papers in Hanover to print articles condemning the murder and used the SA, SS and Gestapo to raid 191 synagogues.

Question 13

How many Jews died in Kristallnacht?

Answer 13

100

Question 14

What were the consequences of Kristallnacht on Jews?

Answer 14

-Fined 1 billion marks
-Banned from running shops or businesses
-Banned from German schools and universities
-20,000 Jews sent to concentration camps