impact of war on germany

ww1 dates

1914-1918

ww2 dates

1939-1945

hitler war tatic

Blitzkrieg

• send in airships and battle planes first

• then men to fight remaining

• save on manpower

when did usa get involved in ww2

1941

allied powers included

REMEMBER

FABS

• usa

• s.u

• uk

• france

axis powers

JIG

• germany

• italy

• japan

truning poitn for germnay in war

dec 141 when usa involved

german soliders wore __ from dead women during stanlingrad

coats

german soliders wore __ from dead men during stanlingrad

boots

german soliders ___ greatly during russian winters

suffered

hwo did german soliders suffer in russia winter

• opted for cannablism

• stole clothing items from corpses

total war in relation to ecnomy

all funs go towards miliratsationa nd prepare for war

1943 signficnat due to total war because

all industrys, workers, and even women must be working to prepare fro war producrion. produce weapons, began getting desperate,

how was german social lives impacted

• lack of food rations

• poverty

• lack of toiletries

• food made out of scraps - mock dishes

• dishes made out of wild animals in zoos

• beef, pork were extremly rare

• potataoes

• no meat

• no enjoyment in social lives

• no happiness

• depressive

DDAY occured

june 1944

japan ___ ___ harbour, therefore getting ___ involce din the war

bombed pearl us

operation barbarossa

when germany decided to invade russia

impact of operation barbarossa on germnay

• lacked sufficent preperations for russian winters

  • lacked fodo

  • cothing

  • resources

percision bombing

act of specfiically targeting an area to bomb 

area bombing

less specific, more broad and geeneral

what was allies goal for carrykng out aerial bombing on dresden

• target factoies taht were producing weapons and war reosurces

total war occured in 

1943

whod eclared total war

goeblles

albert speer

minister of weapons/ aramanets

rationing

act of spliiting and portiioning out resources 

by ___, ___ and ___ began rationinho out

1939, food, clothes

where was most of the food being sent during food rations

armies and front lines

chronic shortages

long term shortages

from 1941, food consumption

when did chronic shrotages began in germany

1944

what items were rationed in germnay

• dialy nessecities

• food

• meat

• cltohing

• soap

• eggs

• consumer goods

• snaitary products

• hot water

how was hot water rationed in germany

limited to 2 days a week

how did food rationing affect germans dialy lives

• germans lacked nurtious food

  • impact on health, weakens immune systems

  • malnurution

• homelessness

• limited daily supplies

hwo did albert speer shift german economy

all factories, farms, production inudstiries must be towards war effort

pioritised armamanet production

total war

when all efforts are going towards preparingfor war

when were women called to work in factoires

1943

how many men served in the army during ww2

13.7 mill men

how did the naizs try to solve the labour shortage

call women to work

impact of all men to conscription

• women called to work in factories

• hitler youth and league of german maidens had to work in fasrms and grow crops

• working hours extended

• all factories to produce muntions

munitions

related to war

equipemnt, reosurces

military weapons, ammunition, equipment, and stores.

whenw as ttotal war decalred

1943 feb

how mcuh did weapon rpoduction incresqe by during 1941-1943

130%

1944 all aircraft and tank rpoductions had ___ (x3)

trbeled

tebeled

x3

_ taht didnt — to the — effort was stopped

anything

contribute

war

hwo did total war affect German society?

• women had to work in fatcories due to labour shoratges

• league of german maidens and hitler youth to go work in farms and grow crops and food for solideers

• wokring hours extended

bombing of dresden occured in

1942

consequences of dresden boming

• 25000 deaths

• 7.5 million homelsss

• allies specifiically bombed dresden as it was an area of advantageous aspects for the war

  • railways connecting to other areas that trasnported supplies

  • military industyr and factories producing weapons

    • weaken german forces

  • destruction of facilities, estbalishments, infaastructure

rationing

act of preserving and conserving resoures

Operation Valkyrie and the JulyBomb Plot occurance ​

1944

aim of july bomb plot

kill hitler via a bomb tucked in a briefcase

who was involved in july bpmb plot

Stauffenberg

consequences of july bomb plot

• many arrested

• germany under tight security. - especically stricter rules wouldve been applied to areas enar nazi heasdquarters to protect hitler

• citizens living in constant fear due to strict punishments

• all of those involved including those who conspried agianst hitler and stauffenberg were excetuted

wht was the final solution

a last or final resort to getting rid of the jews for good by the nazis

how did ww2 change intl perespective on germany

germany no longer cared abt pereception - liberated to do and act however they like

y did jew population increase during ww2

• increased expansion in europe, allowed more jews to be under nazi control

jews were origianlly being emigrated to ___, ever sicne the occurance of ___

madagascar

kristanch

how long were jews able to be emigrated 4

until 1939 - past that point it was getting to difficult and took too many resoruces

since methods to get rid of jews were getting increasingly complex and diffuclt to enact, the nazis began resorting to more ____ ____.

extreme descions

largest ghetto

warsaw poland

number of jewsih deaths in warsaw

500,000

what were ghettos

poorer parts of german cities inwhich the jews were froced to reside in by the nazis

oepratioons aimed at getting rid fo jews

1. ghettos

2. ss death squads

3. final solution

explain ghetto liviing conditons

• unsantiatry

  • lack of proper plumbing

  • no sewage procesisng systems

  • outdated facilities that provided no clean water

  • no sanitation facilities

  • unkept, unclean, dirty

• cramped

  • narrow hosuing proxemics

  • promoted disease spread

  • weak strctural support

  • heightend chances of infectious disease, infections, sicknesses

  • if someone got sick - woudl spread quickly

  • no privacy

  • no protection

• no running water

  • couldn;t shower

  • pungent smells

  • led to disease and insects

• food scaricty

  • not enough rations for evyerone

  • no nutrtion

  • frail and weak

  • died and suffered due to starvation

  • weaken bodies and immune systems

• Hundreds of thousand died from starvation and disease, such astyphus.

• ​constant servilance by nazis and ss

  • no privacy

  • no protection

  • no sense of safety

  • always under watch - creates sense fo unease and anxiousness

  • immense phsycological impact and mentally wounded jews contintuously

  • traumatising experineces

• no heating

  • freezed during winter

  • no hot water

• high death rate

  • DIE OF exhaustion due to forced labour

  • starvation

  • lack of water

  • lakc of medocal faciities

• banned all cultrual activities and jewish entertainment

  • education rstricted

  • limited rights

  • no forgein goods

• no mercy shown to even children - brutaility

• no personal items oculd be bought

• deliberate act of making jews suffer, lvie in inhumane conditions, isoalted from the rest fo the world

establishment of ghettos was in

1939

ww2 yr length

1939-1945

SS death squad purpose

follow behind main nazi army and kill all jews BY GATHERING THEM up - roudning

numemberg laws

banned all non aryan marriages with jews and relations with them between germans

2 key people ivocved in the final solution

himmer

eichmann

who was himler

head of SS and gestspo, inchrage of mass murder and jewish extermination

wherre in europe were death camps built

eastern eur

what occured in death camps

• slave labour

  • forced to endure long wokring hours

  • without sufficent food or hydration

  • nor proper living conditions

• gas chambers

  • were told that they were being given a ‘shower’

• cramped housing

  • disease

  • no medical assitance

  • many died or starvatipn and exhuastion

why did nazis setp up death camsp

• considered a competetion between commanders who managed the camps

  • who could kill more people quickly

• exterminate all jews and those they considered undesirable and unfavourful

  • purify the german popualtion leaving only aryans behind

  • showcase germany’s power and authoirty

how did nazis mass exterminate the jews in death camps

cyanide gas - toxic

gas chambers

antisemitsim

hatred towards jews

define industrial murder

industrial murder refer to the extremity and large scale operations the nazi proceeded with in order to exterminate jews

how many jews were murdered by nazis

6 mil

how did nazis get rid of jewsih corpses

burned in masssive ovens

wht did nazis poirirtise at death camps

mass kilings effienct

process of jews arriving at concentration camps

• arrival

• split into men and women

• determined who would be snet for imemdiate deathin gas chambers or forced labour

complicit

those who arent directy invovlved but are stand byers

reasons why germans were complcit with nazis

• jewish porpaganda - portayed as evils, taking all jobs, influence children,

  • fed these ideals daily, really reinforced 

  • higher chance of germans beleiving nazis

• germans had knwoledge of the death camps happneing

  • didint realise how sevre it was ro js turned a blind eye

• propaganda very effective

  • minimsied gestapo use - 1 for 10,000

  • germans would already rat on/ expose jews themsleves without needing enocurgament

  • civilians informats/ spies

• children were taught to beeive in nazi ideals from young age

  • less mature, more innocnet and vulnerable, gulliable, niavee

  • easily indotricnated - taught to accpet or follow beleifs

  • nazi changed school ciriculum to support thier ideals

  • teachers were only permitted to be employe dif they were memebrs of NSDAP

  • childrens books villanised and antagonsied jews 

    • were taught these beleifes wfrom the very start so it’d be mich harder to change their belief when they are older

• many considered jews to be the blame of starting all thei rporblems

  • scapegoat

  • taking all the jobs

    • captilist who exploited gemrnas for own selfish reasons

  • source of all suffering

  • undermined their own culture (gemran)

  • corrupting and influencing tradtional artforms as jews ‘promoted’ modernism

• establishment of constant fear

  • nazi convicned oublic they were always watching and theyw ere on constatnt survilence

  • hence, any opposition or challenges or their ideals would be observed and coould result in being sent or ocnc camps if germans were dsicovered to be aiding a jew

  • as a result, many ordinaary germans began conforming to nazi ideals out of fear

Capitalist

one who beleives investment in busisness can be profitable, all businesses shoudl be privately owned and comeptetion should be valued

hwo were ordinary germans NOT complcit

• kristanallch

  • after assination of german offical in paris by a teenage jew, nazis outraged and promoted kristannach (night where nazis and ordinary germans destory jewish establisments in protest, to drive them away (emigration))

  • attack on jewish supprots idea that jews needed to be driven out and were the scaegaoat for german people

• presence of opposition groups

  • white rose group oppose nazis by spreading leaflest and produced media challenging them

  • graffiti

  • posters

• catholcis against

  • bishop galen gave a speech outing nazis racial polciies

  • agains their jewish proesectution 

ww2 turning point for germany

1941 invasion of russia via op. barbrossa - ill prepared