The Impact Of The War On German Civilians.

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What was the weather like in the first winter of the war?
Extremely cold.
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In January of 1940, what daytime temperature was the average maximum in Germany?
-5 degrees celsius.
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What did the low temperatures cause? (3.)
It made travel near to impossible; railway points were frozen and the waterways were blocked by ice.
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What was there a lack of in the first winter of the war?
Coal.
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What were ALL non-war factories told they wouldn't receive in the winter of 1939-1940?
Coal.
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Give four places that were forced to close in the first war winter?
Cafes, businesses, schools and beer halls.
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What did a lack of coal cause for people in German towns and cities, during the first winter of WW2?
Cold homes.
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Which other two places did people scavenge for fire fuel? (2.)
Parks and forests, for firewood.
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How did people attempt to solve the low home temperatures, during the bad war winter?
By wearing their outdoor winter clothes, indoor.
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What did the Nazis realise in the spring of 1940? (2.)
That they could not rely on food imports (due to the ships being bombed) and that they could not rely much on German agriculture; the German male farmers were away fighting (mostly.)
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What did the Nazi realisation in the spring of 1940 cause?
Rationing from then on in.
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Give four items that were rationed (these don't have to be food.)
Most foods, clothing, shoes and coal.
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What word can be used to describe the German rationing system and what did this cause?
Complicated, which often lead to confusion for shopkeepers and consumers.
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What two things determined where a person would collect their rations?
Age and profession.
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What were the different colour-coded ration cards for?
Different products.
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Why were the ration cards re-issued every month? (2.)
So that the government could revise the allocation of products by demand and supply.
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What were Jewish ration cards stamped with and what colour was this?
A red J.
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Were Jews given less rations?
Yes.
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When could Jews shop for their rations and why? (3.)
About half-an-hour before the shops closed; this was when most of the goods had been sold and this was with the Nazi's anti-Semitism.
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Give two specific issues with the German rationing system.
The queues were very long and the food quality was quite low.
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What happened when a Berlin woman said that the skimmed milk was slop?
She was reported to the authorities.
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What was the Berlin woman's punishment?
To report to the police station every day for three months and she was forced to repeat the following in front o officers and officials, "There is no skimmed milk. There is only de-creamed fresh milk."
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What did Speer believe about women in the war and why?
That they should be employed in the factories, to boost war production.
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What did Hitler believe about women in the war and why?
That the women shoudl remain at home; they should continue thier roles as wives and mothers.
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What did Speer's and Hitler's opposing opinions cause for wartime women?
This meant that they wee permitted to work in factories, but were not consripted like they were in Britain.
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What effect did women being permitted to work in factories have?
It meant that women were percieved to be more than just wives and mothers.
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What happened to women in higher education during WW2?
Their restriction was lifted.
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From 1939, what would women have to do before entering full-time employment and for how long?
Women ages under 25 had to serve for 6 months in the Labour Service.
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What area of work did MOST women complete their Labour Service in?
Agriculture.
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What restriction was lifted for the Aryan marriage loan?
The one that said that the woman (of the couple) could not work until the loan was paid.
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In 1939, how many women worked in war industries?
760,000.
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By 1941, how many women worked in war industries and why was the quite low for the number of able women in Germany at the time?
1.5 million; with the men fighting, most women preferred to stay at home.
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What was the total number of German women (aged 15 to 65) in Germany by 1941?
30 million.
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Why did the RAF begin a bombing campaign on Germany and when was this?
Due to the Germans marching across northern France in the spring of 1940.
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What parts (directions) of Germany did the RAF bombing campaign beign on?
The north and west of Germany.
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When was the RAF's first successful air raid on Berlin?
The 28th of August 1940.
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During the autumn of 1940, how many nights a week did German cities face an air raid?
Three or four nights per week.
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What did the RAF German bombing campaign lead to the Nazis doing?
Estblishing a nationwide scheme to build air raid shelters and to improve the city air defences.
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What happened to 15 Berliners in an air raid attack on Berlin and when was this.
The air raid shelter collapsed on them in October of 1940 and they unfortunately died.
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When did the Nazis begin to become with the lives of the German city children?
September of 1940.
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What was the name of the German cildren's evacuation programme? (The abreviation is fine!)
The kinderlandverschickung/KLV.
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What was the KLV system amd which two cities did it originally involve?
It was the children's evacuation system to the countryside, initially in the most a risk cities of Hamburg and Berlin, however it was soon established in all German cities.
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What were all children below the age of 14 allowed to have as a part of the KLV programme?
A 6 month stay in a rural area.
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What were children below the age of 10 permitted as part of the KLV programme?
They could be accompanied by their MOTHER for their stay.
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What were older children entitled to as part of the programme?
A stay in the rural Hitler Youth camps.
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Give the four buildings that the Hitler Youth camps could be placed in?
Hotels, country houses, monasteries or youth hostels.
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What were the Hitler Youth camps like, give two points?
They were run to a rigid daily timetable and the discipline could be fairly strict.
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What did the KLV programme mean for the German children/what did it allow the Nazis to do and why?
Indoctrinate children; they were away from their parents for long periods of time, meaning they could not put their views on their children.
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Why were parents reluctant to allow thier children to go to on the KLV Hilter Youth programme?
As the Nazis used it as an indoctrination techique.
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How many children participiated in the Berlin KLV shceme and out of how many eleibible children?
40,000 participated of the 260,000 eligible children of Berlin.
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