Section 1.3: Nazi Consolidation Of Power (Polices)

Front 1

Which groups were attracted by Nazi Propaganda?

Back 1

Shopkeepers, artisans, white collar workers and farmers.

Front 2

What did the Nazis promise?

Back 2

The Nazis promised public investment, industry boost employment to protect those in debts. Controls on prices to protect farmers and controls on imports to protect German industry against foreign competition.

Front 3

What Law was made in May 1933?

Back 3

The Law for the Protection of the Retail Trade.

Front 4

What did the Law for the Protection of the Retail Trade involve?

Back 4

Banned further extension of department stores from offering services such as:

Baking, Hairdressing, Shoe Repairing.

Front 5

Why did they do this?

Back 5

To protect small shop keepers from competition of larger stores, which in the eyes of the Nazis were Jewish owned.

Front 6

What was the Nazi Organisation for small shopkeepers and artisans called?

Back 6

The Combat League of Middle-class Tradespeople.

Front 7

What did they do?

Back 7

They began to organise boycotts of department stores. Tried to take control over chambers of industry and commerce.

Front 8

What was a result of this?

Back 8

Appealed to radical elements of Nazi ideology, particularly SA. Disrupted businesses at a time of depression thus threatning to put thousands more employees out of work. Alienated the banks which had made big loands to department stores.

Front 9

How did the Nazis try to tackle the problems caused by the Combat?

Back 9

Tried to control the activities and tried to stop attacks on department stores.

Front 10

What Law was made in June 1933?

Back 10

The Law to Reduce Unemployment.

Front 11

What did this law involve?

Back 11

Schemes of public work to provide work for the unemployed. Private construction projects, loans to companies to encourage them to increase production. Law insisted all projects carried out with manual labour to maximise employment.

Front 12

What did the law try to persuade women to do?

Back 12

Leave jobs once they were married in order to give male workers priority.

Front 13

What happened to unemployment when the Nazis took over in January 1933?

Back 13

Employment began to fall.

Front 14

What Law was created in September 1933?

Back 14

The Reich Entailed Farm Law

Front 15

What did this Law involve?

Back 15

All farms between 7.5 and 125 hectares in size were declare hereditary estates which were entailed. Farms could not be closed or sold.

ENTAILED: Subject to legal limitation which prevents future heirs from selling/dividing the property.

Front 16

Who were the only ones allowed to own farms?

Back 16

'Aryan German Citizens'

Front 17

What was this Law designed to do?

Back 17

Measure to protect small peasant farmers from being forced to leave the land.

Front 18

What was the result of this law?

Back 18

Deprived farmers of the freedom to sell or mortgage their properties. Small farmers found it difficult to get loans from banks, which they needed to improve their farms.

Front 19

Who was the Agriculture Minister?

Back 19

Hugenburg.

Front 20

What did Hugenburg do?

Back 20

Hugenburg increased tariffs on imported food in February 1933.

Front 21

Who was Hugenburg replaced by?

Back 21

Richard Darre

Front 22

What Reich was established?

Back 22

A Reich Food Estate was established to control the distribution of agricultural produce.

Front 23

What was a result of this?

Back 23

Farmers and consumers were not pleased. Import controls led to increase in prices in butter etc. Controls on distribution of food resulted in lower prices being paid to farmers.