Nazi Germany

• 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