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AS Level History - Political and Governmental Change in Germany (3)
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- 1--Government in wartime 1939-45----Government in wartime 1939-45--
- 2What were the increase in figures of the SS, 1939-1944?1939 - 240,000
1945 - over 1 million - 3What did the SS do?-Ran Hitler's 'racial' policy of getting rid of non-German races from the Reich.
-They did this through: expulsion, isolation, forced labour and murder. - 4How did the structure of Germany change?-13 'military districts' were formed from the German regions.
-The Gauleiters were made into Reich Defence Commissioners (RVKs). - 5What was the role of the Reich Defence Commissioners (RVKs)?-Ran all the Home Front activities.
-This included:
• Civil defence
• Rationing
• Volkssturm (Home Guard) - 6What was the Volkssturm?-Set up in October 1944.
-Last-ditch defence against invasion.
-Everybody was mobilised including: boys, old men, those seen as physically unfit for the army, and even women and girls. - 7What happened to the structure of the government as the war commenced?-It grew with short-lived bodies being set up on all levels.
-Each of the armed forces were given their own ministry to coordinate supplies, troops etc. - 8Who coordinated these new armed forces ministries?Wilhelm Keitel.
- 9What was the name of the new council that was set up and what was its purpose?-Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich.
-Co-ordinated domestic affairs to support the war effort. - 10What happened to this council and what does this show?-The council collapsed, falling victim to Hitler's dislike of group meetings.
-Frick (interior), Funk (economy), Keitel (high commander of the armed forces) met infrequently as the 'Group of Three'.
-Shows even Hitler's most trusted officials already losing faith --> bigger drive to a dictatorship. - 11As the SS marched east and claimed more Lebensraum, how were these new regions governed?-Governed to allocate Germans land and also to incorporate it as part of Germany.
-Ran by 11 new Reichsgau (regional governments), which were run by Reichsstatthalter. - 12What happened to most parts of Poland?They were absorbed into the Third Reich and germanised (forcing German culture upon a region and moving out non-Germans in order to move in pure blooded Germans).
- 13Who went to the Warthegau area of Western Poland?-Half a million ethnic Germans from the Baltic regions and USSR.
-A similar number of Poles were deported in order to make this room. - 14Why and how did the Gaulieters' power increase over time?-As Germany gained more and more land, harder to control from a centralised government.
-1942 onwards: Gaulieters' had power over civil defence measures by using Nazi Party organisations such as the NSV.
-August 1944: Gaulieters' had power over the local bureaucracy and businesses. - 15--Losing control----Losing control--
- 16What was Germany's biggest mistake and why was this?Turning on the USSR on 22nd June 1941 because it meant that the Nazi regime would be fighting a war on two fronts.
- 17What were some of the big changes in Germany when the USA joined the war?-Boys as young as 16 were conscripted.
-Rationing became tighter.
-'Total war' meant that shops which did not help the war effort were banned, and professional sporting events.
-Children were evacuated from the cities.
-Government LOST support and resistance grew. - 18When did the regime start to fall and what date marked the end of the Hitler regime?-Regime started to fall in June 1944 when Allied troops landed in Normandy and started to move towards Berlin from east and west.
-Hitler and Eva Braun married on 30th April 1945, then committed suicide on the same day. This marked the end of the Nazi regime run by Hitler.
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