Topic 5 Nazi Economic Social And Racial Policies

Question 1

What was the National Labour Service Corps (RAD)?

Answer 1

All males aged 18-25 serve for 6 months, undertake manual labour jobs

Question 2

When was serving in the RAD for 6 months made compulsory?

Answer 2

1935

Question 3

What were 3 aspects of life for workers in the RAD?

Answer 3

Lived in camps, wore uniforms, military drills + work

Question 4

What were 3 public works programmes men were put to work on?

Answer 4

Build 7000km of motorways, tree planting, construction of hospitals/schools/houses

Question 5

What were 2 benefits of Hitlers decision to introduce rearmament?

Answer 5

Heavy industry expanded
Created jobs- reduced unemployment

Question 6

How much did heavy industry increase between 1933 and 1939?

Answer 6

Coal and chemical usage doubled
Iron, oil and steel usage trebled

Question 7

How many were in the army by 1939?

Answer 7

1,400,000

Question 8

Who introduced the 4 year plan?

Answer 8

Hermann Goering as economic minister

Question 9

What was the four year plan (1936-1940)?

Answer 9

Speed up rearmament, prepare country for war, establish policy of autarky

Question 10

Want was the nazi policy of Autarky?

Answer 10

Make Germany self sufficient, no foreign imports

Question 11

What did unemployment fall to from 1933 to 1939?

Answer 11

1933 = 6 million
1939 = 350,000

Question 12

What were 2 ways Hitler created invisible unemployment?

Answer 12

Figures didn’t include Jews or women dismissed from jobs, or opponents of Nazi regime held in concentration camps

Question 13

How many members did the DAF have by 1939?

Answer 13

22 million

Question 14

What organisation was set up to reward loyal workers?

Answer 14

Strength through Joy (KDF)

Question 15

How do the KdF aim to improve leisure time?

Answer 15

Sponsored leisure/cultural trips (concerts, theatre visits, sport events, holidays)

Question 16

What was the Beauty of Labour (SdA)?

Answer 16

Department of KdF, aimed to improve working conditions by building of canteens and sports facilities

Question 17

When was the Volkswagen Scheme introduced?

Answer 17

1938

Question 18

What was the Volkswagen scheme?

Answer 18

Gave workers opportunity to save 5 marks a week to buy own car

Question 19

What were 6 ways women made progress during the Weimar period?

Answer 19

Equal voting rights
Encouraged to have good education
Taken up careers in civil service/law/medicine
Go out unescorted
Wear make up
Smoke and drink in public

Question 20

What were the 3 Ks?

Answer 20

Children, Kitchen, Church

Question 21

What was the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage 1933?

Answer 21

Loans to encourage couples to marry, provided wife left job

Question 22

How many children did a woman have to have to get the Mothers cross?

Answer 22

Bronze=4
Silver=6
Gold=8

Question 23

What was the Lebensborn (Life springs) Programme 1936?

Answer 23

Unmarried Aryan women encouraged to ‘denote baby to Fuhrer’ by becoming pregnant by ‘racially pure’ SS men

Question 24

What 3 things did teachers have to do?

Answer 24

Belong to Nazi Teachers League, promote Nazi ideas in classroom, swear oath of loyalty to Hitler

Question 25

What **percentage** of the **school timetable** was devoted to **physical education**?

Answer 25

**15%**

Question 26

How did **lessons start in schools**?

Answer 26

**Pupils saluting** and **saying ‘Heil Hitler’**

Question 27

What were **biology lessons used to study**?

Answer 27

**Racial theory and importance of ‘master race’**

Question 28

What were **Geography lessons used to show**?

Answer 28

**Germany surrounded by hostile neighbours**

Question 29

What did **History textbooks teach**?

Answer 29

**Germany lost war due to Jewish and communist spies**

Question 30

When was **Hitler Youth membership made compulsory**?

Answer 30

**1939**

Question 31

How **many Hitler Youth members** were there by **1939**?

Answer 31

**7 million**

Question 32

What was the **girls version of the Hitler Youth called**?

Answer 32

**German maidens League**

Question 33

What **ages** were the **Hitler Youth and German League of Maidens for**?

Answer 33

**14-18**

Question 34

What did **Boys do in the Hitler Youth**?

Answer 34

**Military skills (shooting, map reading, drill)** **Athletics, hiking, camping**

Question 35

How **many Jews had emigrated by 1939**?

Answer 35

**280,000**

Question 36

When was the **boycott of Jewish shops and businesses**?

Answer 36

**April 1933**

Question 37

Which **2 types of persecution of Jews occurred in April 1933**?

Answer 37

**Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses** **Jews banned from civil service/teachers/doctors/dentists/judges**

Question 38

When were the **Nuremberg Laws passed**?

Answer 38

**September 1935**

Question 39

What were **2 Nuremberg Laws** and **what did they do**?

Answer 39

**Reich Law on Citizenship- Jews lost citizenship** and **right to vote** **Law for Protection of German Blood and Honour- illegal for Jews to marry/have sexual relations with Aryans**

Question 40

What were **2 ways Jews were made identifiable**?

Answer 40

Had to **carry identity cards** **Passports stamped with large red letter ‘J’**

Question 41

What **2 ways were Jews persecuted in 1939**?

Answer 41

**Forced to handover precious metals + jewellery** **Evicted from homes** and **forced into ghettos**

Question 42

When was **Kristallnacht**?

Answer 42

**November 1938**

Question 43

What was used as the **cause for Kristallnacht**?

Answer 43

**Murder of Nazi official** in **Paris** by **young polish Jew**

Question 44

What was **Kristallnacht**?

Answer 44

**Goebbels organised attacks on Jewish property in cities**, so many **windows smashed** known as **Night of Broken Glass**

Question 45

How **many Jewish shops were destroyed** and **synagogues burnt down** on **Kristallnacht**?

Answer 45

**7500 shops** **400 synagogues**

Question 46

How **many Jews were arrested** and **taken to concentration camps** on **Kristallnacht**?

Answer 46

**30,000**

Question 47

How much were **Jews fined as compensation for damage caused on Kristallnacht**?

Answer 47

**One billion Reichsmarks**