Nazi Germany

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  • How did Hitler tackle unemployment
    • made massive public works programmes like building of the autobahns (motorways)
    • men 18-25 made to join RAD (Reich labour service) and do hard manual labour
    • 1935 - men began to be conscripted into army + factories set up for arms production
  • How did Hitler keep workers happy
    • All workers had to join DAF (German Labour Front) - controlled workers + settled disputes
    • set up KDF (Strength through joy) - gave people holidays, theatre tickets, etc which encouraged them to work harder
    • Farmers given help to pay off loans
  • How did unemployment change under Nazis
    went from 6 million to 0.5 million
  • What were the 3Ks that women had to live by
    Kinder, Kuche, Kirche (children, cooking, church)
  • What was the name of the Nazi secret police
    Gestapo
  • How did Hitler encourage women to have big families
    • Medals awarded to women who had large numbers of children
    • increased birth rate would ensure future of 'master race'
    • expected to stay at home + forced to leave jobs
  • what was the Nazi youth organisation for girls called
    League of maidens
  • What did the Hitler youth do for boys
    • trained them to be perfect soldiers
    • report anti-nazi activities
  • What did the Hitler youth do for girls
    • Trained them to b e good mothers
    • told them to report anti-nazi activities
  • How did Hitler indoctrinate the youth through education
    • New curriculum that promoted messages of war + getting rid of minorities
    • Eugenics introduced as race studies
    • History books rewritten without german defeats
    • story books warning children of the jews
  • When did membership of Hitler youth become compulsory
    1939
  • what were 2 anti-nazi groups that young people joined
    Swing movement, Eidelweiss Pirates
  • How did the Nazis use propaganda to gain support

    • Posters, Film, Music
    • Speeches regularly broadcasted on radio
    • Newspapers banned from printing anything that hadnt been checked by Nazis first - censorship
    • rallies e.g Nuremberg
  • What did Nazis do to people who opposed nazi rule
    sent them to concentration camps
  • What did the Gestapo do
    checked for people who werent being loyal + took them to be tortured
  • How did Hitler infiltrate the legal system
    • All judges had to be members of Nazi Party
    • Minister of justice would check if they were too lenient
  • How did Hitler plan to create a master (Aryan) race
    • Eugenics + racial cleansing
    • Selective breeding
  • What was the Nazi ideology about jews
    Believed that jews were inferior + blamed them for any problems Germany faced
  • What did Hitler do to minorities
    • Vagrants + homeless taken to camps to be re-educated
    • Gays sent to concentration camps
    • Black people + mentally ill sterilised so they couldnt reproduce
    • Roma sent to camps and later exterminated with Jews
  • What does the term Untermensch mean
    sub-human
  • Which anti-semitic laws were passed in 1935
    Nuremburg Laws
  • What did the Nuremburg laws mean for Jewish people
    Their German citizenship was taken away + were banned from marrying/having sex with Germans
  • When was Kristelnacht
    1938
  • When were Jewish people banned from public spaces
    1934
  • What was kristelnacht
    Physical attack on Jewish businesses, homes, + synagogues and killed 100 people
  • What did the 1933 Concordat mean
    Catholic church would stay silent if Nazis stayed out of their affairs
  • What happened to the Protestant church in 1933
    was reorganised into National Reich Church + given new Nazi Bishops
  • How did Hitler break the Concordat
    began to close down catholic schools/youth groups + promote Hitler youth instead
  • What happened when The Pope spoke out against Hitlers actions against the church in 1937
    • 400 catholic priests arrested + sent to concentration camps
  • How many children did women have to have before getting a gold medal
    7