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What was it like to live in the Third Reich?
a. Religious Groups in Nazi Germany
Define religious denominations
A. What were Nazi Policies towards Religious Groups?
What did the Nazi Party programme state that they believed in?
However what were the Nazis doing within months of seizing power?
B. Why did the Nazis follow this policy
Why did Hitler and the Nazis not like organised religious groups?
What did the Nazis want instead?
What did this mean in other words?
Therefore what did the Nazis follow a policy of?
C. How much did life change for different religious groups?
1. The Catholic Church
What did Hitler sign with the Pope?
What happened to church schools, catholic groups and priests?
2. The Protestant Church
What sort of church did the Nazis set up?
Why did many Protestants hate this church?
How was the "Confessional Church" set up?
How many pastors joined the "Confessional Church"?
What did the Nazis do in response?
3. Religious Sects.
What happened when Jehovah Witnesses refused to serve in the army?
4. Pagan Cults
How well did the Nazis deal with the religious groups?
b. The Young People in Nazi Germany
A.What were the Nazi Policies towards Young People?
How did the Nazis do this?
i. Education
What was the education system under the Nazis designed to do?
What did the Nazis do in order to achieve their aim?
How was the school syllabus changed?
Why was more emphasis put on these subjects
What happened to textbooks?
How did the Children's education change in general?
What does indoctrination mean?
What did children learn about it History?
What were the Jews blamed for?
What did Hitler's hatred for the Jews mean?
Why was physical education essential for boys and girls?
Why was biology important?
What did lessons teach pupils to develop?
ii. The Nazi Youth Movement
When was it made compulsory to belong to the movement?
What were boys taught?
What were girls taught?
Why did Young People join the Nazi Youth Movement?
B. Why did the Nazis follow this policy?
Why did the Nazis want to control Young People?
C. How did life change for young people?
What percentage of boys and girls were members in 1933?
When was the Nazi Youth Movement made compulsory?
But what was happening by this time?
Why was the Nazi Youth Movement becoming less popular?
Why did leadership start to become a problem?
What did these older teenagers do?
Why did the Activities become a problem?
What opposition did some young people pose to the Nazis?
1. The Swing Movement
What class was this movement mainly made up of?
What did they do in this movement?
Who did they accept in their clubs?
What did they talk about and enjoy?
What did the Nazis do in response?
2. The Edelweiss Pirates
What type of teenagers were in this group?
Were they an organised movement?
What names of the movement were used in various cities?
What age were the Pirates aged between?
What did the Pirates do at weekend?
In contrast with the Hitler Youth what did the Pirates include?
How did the Nazis deal with the opposition?
Why were the Nazis not very successful in dealing with these young people?
How did Himmler suggest the young people should be handled?
Why was this not done?
What did this mean?
Women in Nazi Germany
What were the Nazi Policies towards women?
1. The Nazis policies that attempted to raise the birth rate in Germany
When and what was the 'Law for the Encouragement of Marriage'?
How much money could they keep on their second child?
How much money could they keep on their fourth child?
What were given to the most fertile women each year?
2. The Nazis wanted women to help them to create the German Master Race
What did the Nazis want to improve?
What did this mean the Nazis had to do?
Why was compulsory sterilisation introduced?
When were Jewish women banned from marrying Aryan men?
3. The Nazis wanted to encourage women to leave the workplace and to stay at home
Who were loans given to?
Between what years were thousands of married women doctors, lawyers, teachers and civil servants sacked?
What were employers encourage to do?
B. Why did the Nazis follow these policies
What did Hitler want to do?
What did Hitler need for this reason?
What did this require?
What was unfortunate for Hitler?
So what did the Nazis do in reverse?
Why had the Nazis been elected?
C. How much did life change for women?
What success did the Nazis have?
HOWEVER why were women to useful to remove them completely from the workforce?
Why did Germany face the Crisis years of 1942-1945?
What were the Nazis torn between during these years?
d. Workers (men) in Nazi Germany
A. What were the Nazi policies towards workers?
1.How did Hitler achieve his fist policy?
(the aim to decrease unemployment)
i. The RAD
What did this organisation give men?
What sorts of jobs were they given?
What was the biggest public work scheme?
ii. New Industries
What sort of Germany did Hitler want?
As a result what did Hitler order Germany's scientist to find?
What alternatives did the scientists develop?
What did these things being in Germany mean?
iii. Rearmament
What did Hitler start in March 1935?
By how much did the army grow?
What did the men doing military service not count as?
How much was spent on weapons and equipment in order to equip this new large army?
iv. Transferring work
What made it appear that unemployment had decreased?
How did Hitler achieve his second policy for men in Nazi Germany?
(wanting to closely control the lives of the workers)
i. The German Labour Front
What did Hitler establish in replace of the Trade unions?
ii. Strength Through Joy (KDF)
What did this organisation aim to do?
What would the Nazis promise?
B. Why did the Nazis follow these policies?
Why was it important for the Nazis to decrease unemployment?
What did Hitler decide he needed to do in order to make Germany into strong Nation?
Why did Hitler want to closely control worker' lives?
C. How much did life change for workers?
i. Decrease in unemployment
By how much did the Nazis decrease unemployment
What does this basis suggest?
However what becomes clear from evidence?
Why did the lives of many workers not improve?
What did Hitler force when he came to power?
What would happen if they did not accept the work on these programmes?
What happened to the average industrial workers' wages between 1929 and 1938?
How were the workers in the RAD paid?
ii. Workers' Organisations
Why might it at first sight appear that the two workers' organisations which were established had the effect of improving the lives of the workers?
However what did the German Labour Front do?
Who were the holidays and day trips organised by Strength through Joy actually reserved for?
What did this mean?
e. The Jews in Nazi Germany
What does 'Boycott' mean?
A.What were Nazis policies towards Jewish people?
i. Measures introduced against the Jews in 1933
How many Jews were murdered during 1933?
Where else were thousands of Jews sent?
Where did place cards appear and what did they say on them?
As a result of these policies where did the Jews go?
How many Jews had fled from Germany by 1933?
Where did the Jews go when they fled from Germany?
Why did Jews often find it hard to escape Germany?
ii. More extreme measures against the Jews in 1935
What were Jews forbidden to do in May 1935?
What Laws were passed in September 1935?
What were The Nuremberg Laws?
What did these laws do?
What was the Reich Citizen Law?
iii. Lull in anti-Jewish policy, 1936
What happened in 1936?
Why did the lull take place?
iv. Return to extreme measures, 1938
What did the Jews have to do in April 1938?
What were Jewish doctors, dentists and lawyers forbidden to do June-July 1938?
What did Jews have on their passports October 1938?
What happened 9th-10th November 1938?
What was Kristallnacht a very clear example of?
Why did Kristallnacht start?
What did the Nazis use this an excuse for?
How many synagogues were destroyed on the night of the 9th and 10th November 1938?
How many Jews were killed?
How many shops were destroyed?
How many people were sent to concentration camps?
What did the Nazis claim about the riots?
v. The promotion of Jewish emigration in 1939
Why was 1939 marked a turning point in Nazi policies towards the Jews?
What was established in result of this in January 1939?
v. The Holocaust during the Second World War 1939-1945
How much did people know about the Holocaust in Germany?
What did the people see after the Second World War based on the Holocaust?
B. Why did the Nazis follow these policies towards the Jews?
i. Anti- Semitism
What had Christian Europe regarded Jews as for hundreds of years?
Where was this deep prejudice against the Jews strong during the twentieth century?
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ii. Hitler's belief in the German Master Race
However why was there a problem with this idea?
How did Hitler argue his point?
What did the Nazis think the solution to Germany's problem was?
Who were partly held the blame by the Nazis for the state of Germany?
iii. The Nazis belief that the Jews were "Impure"
What did the Germans believe about the Jews?
Why were the Nazis successful in carrying out their policies against the Jews?
