History Topic 4

• Who was the Education Minister

  Bernard Rust
• How much were unemployed by Jan 1933

  5 million
• What were Edelweiss Pirates


  Working class teenagers e.g travelling dudes in Essen.

  Wore US clothes and white Edelweiss flower.

  Taunted/Attacked HJ
• How many members did the Edelweiss Pirates have by 1939


  2000
• By what year were most yourh groups banned


  1933
• What was the League of German Maidens (BDM)


  Taught girls aged 14-21 how to cook, sow, make beds and marry Aryans
• What were the Swing Youth


  Middle class teenagers

  Wore US clothes

  Liked American film and music e.g. Glen Miller Orchestra

  Drank, smoked, and danced illegally

  6000 people
• What were Nazi beliefs about 


  Important as mother & houswife

  Husband should provide for them

  They should stay at home and look after the family

  A ‘natural’ appearance

  Should marry and have children to make Germany ‘bigger and stronger’
• What did Getrud Scholz-Klink (Reich Women’s leader) create?


  German Women’s Enterprise - to spread Nazi ideas about women

  1939 - 1.7 million attended Nazi classes on childcare, cooking and sewing
• Married couples were loaned 1000 marks paid off if they had 4 children
• If a woman could not have children, their husbands were legally allowed to divorce them
• What was the Mother’s Cross

  An awarded for mothers who had 4+ children

  Bronze - 4/5 Children

  Silver - 6/7 Children

  Gold - 8+ Children
• What were the 3 K’s to encourage women to leave work? 


  Kinder, Kuche, Kirche

  (Children, Kitchen & Church)
• By what year were women banned from being teachers, doctors, and civil servants

  1933
• By what year could women no longer be judges/lawyers

  1936
• 1937 - grammar schools for girls were banned

  Female students in higher education fell from 17,000 in 1932 to 6,000 by 1939
• By how much did Hitler reduce unemployment


  Jan 1933 - 5 million unemployed

  End of 1933 - 4.8 million unemployed

  1936 - 1.5 million unemployed

  1939 - 0.5 million unemployed
• The Nazi government encouraged women to marry young and have lots of babies.
• In 1933, Hitler introduced laws that made it easier for men to get divorced if they felt their wife wasn't fulfilling her role as a mother.
• Hitler believed that women should only focus on having children and running the home.
• In 1933, there was an average of 1 child per family. By 1939 this had risen to 2 children per family.