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| Question | Answer |
| --Government in wartime 1939-45-- | --Government in wartime 1939-45-- |
| What were the increase in figures of the SS, 1939-1944? | 1939 - 240,000 1945 - over 1 million |
| What did the SS do? | -Ran Hitler's 'racial' policy of getting rid of non-German races from the Reich. -They did this through: expulsion, isolation, forced labour and murder. |
| How did the structure of Germany change? | -13 'military districts' were formed from the German regions. -The Gauleiters were made into Reich Defence Commissioners (RVKs). |
| What was the role of the Reich Defence Commissioners (RVKs)? | -Ran all the Home Front activities. -This included: • Civil defence • Rationing • Volkssturm (Home Guard) |
| What was the Volkssturm? | -Set up in October 1944. -Last-ditch defence against invasion. -Everybody was mobilised including: boys, old men, those seen as physically unfit for the army, and even women and girls. |
| What happened to the structure of the government as the war commenced? | -It grew with short-lived bodies being set up on all levels. -Each of the armed forces were given their own ministry to coordinate supplies, troops etc. |
| Who coordinated these new armed forces ministries? | Wilhelm Keitel. |
| What was the name of the new council that was set up and what was its purpose? | -Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich. -Co-ordinated domestic affairs to support the war effort. |
| What happened to this council and what does this show? | -The council collapsed, falling victim to Hitler's dislike of group meetings. -Frick (interior), Funk (economy), Keitel (high commander of the armed forces) met infrequently as the 'Group of Three'. -Shows even Hitler's most trusted officials already losing faith --> bigger drive to a dictatorship. |
| As the SS marched east and claimed more Lebensraum, how were these new regions governed? | -Governed to allocate Germans land and also to incorporate it as part of Germany. -Ran by 11 new Reichsgau (regional governments), which were run by Reichsstatthalter. |
| What happened to most parts of Poland? | They were absorbed into the Third Reich and germanised (forcing German culture upon a region and moving out non-Germans in order to move in pure blooded Germans). |
| Who went to the Warthegau area of Western Poland? | -Half a million ethnic Germans from the Baltic regions and USSR. -A similar number of Poles were deported in order to make this room. |
| Why and how did the Gaulieters' power increase over time? | -As Germany gained more and more land, harder to control from a centralised government. -1942 onwards: Gaulieters' had power over civil defence measures by using Nazi Party organisations such as the NSV. -August 1944: Gaulieters' had power over the local bureaucracy and businesses. |
| --Losing control-- | --Losing control-- |
| What was Germany's biggest mistake and why was this? | Turning on the USSR on 22nd June 1941 because it meant that the Nazi regime would be fighting a war on two fronts. |
| What were some of the big changes in Germany when the USA joined the war? | -Boys as young as 16 were conscripted. -Rationing became tighter. -'Total war' meant that shops which did not help the war effort were banned, and professional sporting events. -Children were evacuated from the cities. -Government LOST support and resistance grew. |
| When did the regime start to fall and what date marked the end of the Hitler regime? | -Regime started to fall in June 1944 when Allied troops landed in Normandy and started to move towards Berlin from east and west. -Hitler and Eva Braun married on 30th April 1945, then committed suicide on the same day. This marked the end of the Nazi regime run by Hitler. |
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