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34 Cards in this Set
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What three methods did the Nazis use to remain in power? (3) |
Terror, propaganda, popular policies |
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The Gestapo was formed in April 1933- who were the Gestapo? |
The secret state police |
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How many members of the Gestapo were there and how did they get their information? (2) |
30,000 at most, relied on informers |
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What was the first concentration camp and when was it set up? (2) |
Dachau, March 1933 |
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Which terror organisation was the largest and how many people were in it? (2) |
The SS, 250,000 |
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Why did terror help the Nazis remain in power? (2) |
Made it difficult to form mass opposition, scared ordinary people into supporting the Nazis. |
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Who was in charge of Nazi propaganda? |
Goebbels |
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Name three forms of Nazi propaganda that they used whilst they were in power (3) |
Radio (People's Receiver), posters, Nuremberg Rallies, films, newspapers |
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Why did propaganda help them remain in power? (3) |
People only heard good things about the Nazis and therefore less opposition was formed, people were brainwashed into supporting them, people felt the Nazis improved their lives. |
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Name two reasons why the Nazis were so popular was most German people. (2) |
Strength through Joy gave discounted holidays/cars, people liked their foreign policy, women liked the marriage loans, young people felt important, no crime, feeling of unity. |
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Why were young people important to the Nazis? |
Important for the 1000 year Reich, strength for the future. |
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What did boys do in the Hitler Youth? |
Military training (to prepare for being future soldiers) |
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What did girls do in the League of German Maidens? |
Learned domestic skills like cooking and sewing to be future wives/ mothers |
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How was education in Germany affected while the Nazis were in power? (2) |
Nazified, e.g they were taught Eugenics and even Maths questions had a political bias |
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What percentage of the youth are estimated by historians to have supported the Nazis? |
95% |
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Name 2 youth groups who opposed the Nazis (2) |
Edelweiss Pirates, Swing Kids, White Rose |
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What did Hitler do to the Catholic Church? |
Signed a deal in 1933 (the Concordat) and then persecuted them |
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What did Hitler do to the Protestant Church? |
Created the Reich Church |
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Name two members of the Church who opposed the Nazis. (2) |
Nielmoller, Bonhoffer and von Galen. |
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What expectations did the Nazi Party have of women? |
They would have large families. |
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How did they encourage women to have children? (3) |
Marriage loans of 1000 marks, Motherhood Cross, emphasised the three 3 K's (children, church and cooking) |
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Give two ways in which the Nazis tackled unemployment. |
Public work schemes, military conscription (lead to army being 1.4 million by 1939), armament factories, sacking Jews/ women. |
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What negatives were there for workers in Nazi Germany? (3) |
No trade unions, strikes illegal, longer working hours, couldn't leave a job without permission. |
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What positives were there for workers in Nazi Germany? |
They were made to feel important, Strength Through Joy gave them lots of benefits and cheap holidays, workers couldn't be sacked on the spot, Beauty of Labour improved facilities. |
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Did the Nazis achieve their short-term economic aim? |
To some extent- claimed they did but 1.5 million were 'invisibly unemployed'. |
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What did the Germans believe about race? |
Aryans were the best |
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Name three groups of people persecuted by the Nazis (3) |
Jews, disabled (who were sterilised), homosexuals (put in camps), communists (put in concentration camps) , asocials, Roma/ Sinti |
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What were the 1935 Nuremberg Laws? |
Laws to segregate and discriminate against the Jews e.g. they couldn't be married to Aryans |
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Why were the Nuremberg Laws important? |
Stopped Jews being citizens/socially isolated them |
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What happened in 1938 on Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass)? |
Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues attacked , 91 Jewish people killed. |
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What were ghettoes? |
Small areas of cities where Jews were forced to live. |
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What was the role of the the Einsatzgruppen from 1941? |
Mass shootings of 'enemies'- over 1 million people were killed |
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What was the 1942 'Final Solution? |
The plan to kill all the Jews in Europe |
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How many Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis? |
6 million |
