Key topic 4: ➜ Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39

nazis appointed a reich womens leader

1934 - gertrud scholtz klink

the DWF

nazi german women's enterprise

how many members did the DWF have in 1939

6,000,000

how many women attended courses on childcare, cooking and sewing

1,700,000

how many births were in 1900 and 1933

1900 = 2,000,000

1933 = 1,000,000

the law for the encouragement of marriage

passed in 1933

what did the law for the encouragement of marriage do

it gave loans worth up to 1,000 marks ( 8 months wages )

they were only available of the wife had stopped work

it encouraged young couples to marry, have kids and for women to be stay at home wives

four children would write off the loans completel

when were divorce laws introduced and what did they do

1938 - the husband could divorce his wife if she couldn't have kids or if she didn't want to

what was the mothers cross

an award given to women for the number of children they had

bronze -> 4

silver -> 6

gold -> 8

10th child could be named adolf

lebensborn started

1935 - " fountain of life " that encouraged women to breed with SS men

how many lebensborn babies were made

16,000

kinder, küche, kirche popularised

1930s - children, kitchen, church

league of german maidens founded

193

league of german maidens made compulsory

1936

women were banned from professional posts such as teachers, doctors and civil servants

1933

women could not do jury service, be a judge or a lawyer

1936

grammar schools for girls, which prepared them for university, were banned

1937

how many girls were in higher education in 1932 and 1939

1932 -> 17,000

1939 -> 6,000

how many women had given up work by the end of 1934

360,000

hitler banned all non-nazi youth groups

1933

all sports facilities for young people taken over by the nazis

1936

how many members were there in protestant youth groups compared to nazi youth groups in 1932

protestant youth groups -> 600,000

nazi youth groups -> 100,000

compulsory for youth to join a nazi youth group from the age of 7 unless they are from an unwanted minority group

march 1939

what were the names of the nazi youth groups and their age ranges (boys)

6 to 10 -> pimpfe ( little fellows )

10 to 14 -> deutshe jungvolk ( german young people )

14 to 18 -> hitler jugend ( hitler youth )

examples of activities the hitler youth had to do (4)

- members had to swear an oath of loyalty to hitler

- they were required to snitch on any disloyal people, even friends and family

- were sometimes plunged in cold water

- regular hiking expeditions

how many boys were trained in small arms shooting by 1938

1.2 million

how many members were in each division of the hitler youth in 1938

naval hitler youth - 45,000

motor hitler youth - 60,000

gliding hitler youth - 55,000

flying hitler youth - 74,000

what were the names of the nazi youth groups and their age ranges (girls)

10 to 14 - jungmädel ( young maidens )

14 to 21 - bund deutscher mädel aka BDM ( league of german maidens )

what were girls taught in the BDM

how to cook and clean

eugenics

political and physical training

how many hitler youth members were there in 1939 and how much of an increase is that from 1935

9 million members in 1939, an increase of almost 4 million

nazis passed a law giving them power to sack teachers

april 1933

how many secondary school teachers were sacked in prussia

180

how many teachers had attended courses on political education by 1939

200,000

how much of lesson time was PE by 1939

1/6

all textbooks were nazi approved

1935 onwards

how many germans were unemployed in 1933 compared to 1939

1933 -> 5 million

1939 -> 0.3 million

RAD - reich arbeits deinst / national labour service - set up

1933

all young men had to serve 6 months in the RAD

1935

how many people were in the RAD in 1935

422,000

what was the autobahns

a 7,000 mile metwork of dual-carriageway roads

first autobahn was started

september 1933

first autobahn was opened

may 1935

how many men were employed via the autobahns by 1935

125,000 men

3,500km ( half way ) was done

1938

how much did spending on public

works grow from 1933 to 1938

18 billion in 1933, 38 billion in 1938 ( 20 billion increase)

how many men were in armed forces by 1939

1.36 million

how much did arms spending increase to

26 billion

how many people were in the aircraft construction industry in 1935

72,000

what were the rise in wages in the years 1934,1936 and 1939 COMPARED TO 1933

1934 -> 6%

1936 -> 9%

1939 -> 20%

how much did food prices rise in germany between 1933 and 1939

20%

what was the rise in the sale of goods in 1934, 1936 and 1939 COMPARED TO 1933

1934 -> 14%

1936 -> 25%

1939 -> 45%

how much did hours rise from 1933 to 1939

hours rose from 43 to 49

trade unions banned

1933

DAF ( labour front ) set up

May 1933

how much did the maximum length of the working week set by the DAF go up by

6 hours per week

KdF ( strength through joy ) set up

1933

how many members were in the KdF by 1936

35,000,000

how many holidays and cruises were held and how many people attended

1,000 events were held and 700,000 people attended

how many theatre performances were held and how many people attended

21,000 events were held and 11,000,000 people attended

what was the volkswagen

people's car - it could travel 40 miles and it held 4 people

how many marks did workers give up per week in order to get a volkswagen

5 marks per week, no worker received the car or their money

volkswagen factories switched to production of armaments

1938

SdA ( beauty of labour ) set up as a division of the KdF

1933

how many facilities did the nazis claim the SdA had improved by 1938

34,000 facilities

how many travellers were in a camp in Berlin in 1936

600

travellers banned from travelling in groups

1938

orders were given to prepare all Roma people for deportation

1939

nazis strengthened laws against homosexuality

1935

how many males were imprisoned for homosexuality in 1934, 1936 and 1938

1934 -> 766

1936 -> 4,000

1938 -> 8,000

how many german homosexuals died in concentration camps

5,000

law for the prevention of hereditarily diseased offspring

1933

how many disabled people were sterilised by 1939

400,000

T4 programme

1939

how many disabled children were killed

5,000

how many jewish people were in germany in 1933

437,000 | less than 1%

jewish people banned form government jobs, civil service and teachers sacked

april 1933

jewish people banned from land inheritance

september 1933

jewish people banned from the army

may 1935

jewish business boycott

march 30th 1933

nuremberg laws - jewish people had to wear yellow stars and couldn't marry german citizens

15th september 1935

jewish people had to register all their possessions

march 1938

identity cards for jewish people

july 1938

kristallnacht

9th-10th november 1938

all jewish people evicted and deported

april 1939

polish jew killed a german who died 2 days after being shot

7th november 1938

how many shops, synagogues and homes were destroyed on kristallnacht

shops -> 814

synagogues -> 191

homes -> 171

how many jewish people died on kristallnacht

100

how much were jewish people fined for kristallnacht ( "damages" )

1 billion marks

how many jewish people had been sent to concentration camps by the 12th of november

20,000