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Flashcards by samstevenson2014, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What paintings were destroyed? What did some Nazis secretly do? | The paintings of masters like Picasso and Van Gogh Keep them for themselves |
| What did Albert Speer do? | Designed huge buildings in classical style to celebrate Nazi triumph |
| How many boys were enrolled in the Hitler Youth by 1935? | 3.5 million |
| What did the girls join? | League of German Maidens |
| How were history books rewritten? | In emphasis of the Nazi version of German history (anti-semitic) |
| Why did Hitler and the Nazis despise Christianity? | It encouraged people to love one another |
| Why did the leaders of the main Christian churches accept Nazi rule? | They feared communism more |
| What were German Protestants divided into? | 28 different churches |
| What did they agree in 1933? What was it called? | They agreed to unite into Nazi-controlled state Church Reichskirche |
| What was formed in 1934? What was this? | The Confessional Church A church independent of Nazi control |
| Who formed it? | Martin Niemöller and Karl Barth |
| What happened when they protested about anti-semitism? | Gestapo arrested them and many other clergymen |
| Who returned to Germany from the US at the start of the war? | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Protestant theologian |
| What happened to him? Why? | He was arrested and executed in 1943 He linked up with anti-nazi parties |
| What did the Vatican's 1933 treaty agree with Nazis? | Because they could keep control of schools, Church agreed to keep out of politics |
| Who of note became concerned with Hitler's anti semitism? How did he attack it? | Pope Pius XI His encyclical (letter), Mit Brennender Sorge (With Burning Anger) |
| Who was his successor when he died in 1939? How did he react to Nazi ruthlessness? | Pius XII He did nothing as he feared it would have an effect on German Catholics |
| What did individual Catholics do? | Protest and many were executed or sent to concentration camps |
| How many were unemployed when the Nazis came to power? | 6 million |
| Who did Hitler appoint? | A banker, Hjalmar Schacht as Finance Minister |
| How did Nazis create jobs? How did people enrol? | Public works projects Labour Battalions |
| What was re-introduced in 1935? What did Hitler do to the German economy? | Conscription He helped it greatly |
| What did Hitler believe Germany had to be to win the war? | Self sufficient with food and raw materials |
| Who drew up a four year plan? | Committee chaired by Herman Goering |
| What was Hitler's invasion of USSR in 1941 partly for? What did Albert Speer do? | To gain oil and other raw materials Re-organised arms industry using slave labour and conquered countries' raw materials |
| What did this enable Germany to do? What did Nazi's achieve economically? | Fight until 1945 Limited success based on high state spending |
| How many Jews were there in Germany 1933? | About 500,000 |
| What did Hitler claim? What began to happen in 1933? | They were a threat to his master race Anti-semitism became official state policy and pressure on Jews gradually increased |
| Why did other countries not want Jews? | They didn't want refugees during the Depression |
| What happened in November 1938? | A French Jew assassinated a German official in Paris |
| What did this lead to? | Nazi-led mobs attacking synagogues and vandalising Jewish shops |
| What were Jews forced to wear when they left the "ghettos"? | Yellow Star of David |
| How many Jews were at the Germans' mercy after 1941? | About 8 million |
| When was the final solution decided? | 1942 |
| Who else was killed in concentration camps? | About 500,000 homosexuals, gypsies, and disabled people |
| When were the camps discovered? | 1945 after the war ended |
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