life in Nazi Germany

What were Nazi views on women?

They should focus on children, kitchen, and church ("Kinder, Küche, Kirche").

What rewards were given to mothers?

Mother’s Cross medals for having large families.

How did the Nazis tackle unemployment?

Public works programs, rearmament, and removing women and Jews from jobs.

What was the Labour Front (DAF)?

Replaced trade unions; controlled workers and conditions.

What was “Strength Through Joy” (KdF)?

Program offering leisure activities to loyal workers.

What was “Beauty of Labour”?

Program to improve workplace conditions.

What were Nazi schools like?

Focused on physical fitness, racial theory, and loyalty to Hitler.

How did life change for Jews under Nazi rule?

Increasing persecution, segregation, and loss of rights.

What were the Nuremberg Laws (1935)?

Anti-Jewish laws removing citizenship and banning intermarriage.

What happened during Kristallnacht (1938)?

Nazi-organized attacks on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.

How were disabled people treated?

Targeted by euthanasia programs.

What was the Nazi ideal man?

Strong, loyal, militaristic, racially pure.

Were workers’ lives better under Nazi rule?

Mixed: more jobs, but no rights or freedom.

How did the Nazis promote loyalty?

through propaganda, youth groups, rewards, and fear.

What groups were excluded from the “Volksgemeinschaft”?

Jews, Roma, disabled, communists, homosexuals, and others