Germany KQ4 Flashcards
What is the home front?
The informal term for civilians left behind in a war, who assist with the war effort in some way.
When did Germany start rationing, what did they have and why did they start?
21st August 1939
1 egg and 500g of meat a week, 125g butter
Because a lack of food was a key reason for them losing WW1
What event happened in 1941 involving people who the nazis viewed as inferior to others?
Women started working in factories
50% of total workers in factories
By the end of the war, how many German civilians were killed?
Over 500,000
There was a major bombing on Hamburg, 45000 died, 10 square miles destroyed
Dresden- 25,000 died in one night and Berlin were left destroyed
When did Germany lower ration sizes further?
1945
How did a type of flower opposed the nazis?
A youth group called the white rose led anti-nazi demonstrations, the leaders were tortured and executed.
Hans and Sophie Scholl
Said the nazis took away ordinary German rights
Which youth group with the initials ep opposed the nazis and what happened?
The edelweiss pirates attacked hitler youth members printed anti-nazi pamphlets and offered shelter to army deserters the leaders were arrested and hanged
Give one example of how the military opposed hitler
A plan was made to kill hitler with a bomb however colonel Von stauffenberg’s bomb only injured hitler 200 executed
Army group centre in Russia placed a bomb on hitlers aircraft however it didn’t detonate
How well did the church oppose the nazis
Very poorly, Martin niemöller tried but spent 8 years in a concentration camp and Diedrich Bonhoelfer was executed
They believed that the German church was against Christianity
In 1939,what did the nazis do in Poland?
They marched in and Jews were killed or sent to ghettos
Einsatzgruppen formed to take control of “security”
Russia 1941- what happened and how did the nazis react
35,000 jews were murdered and their bodies were covered in quicksand. The ss leader himmler was appalled at the cruelty of the method
What was decided in 1942
The extermination of all European Jews “final solution” decided at the Wannsee conference 500,000 already murdered
When were Jews in concentration camps?
Spring 1942-45
Birkenau saw 1.1 million die
91% of all Jews in Poland dead
Yalta conference
Feb 1945
Germany forced to surrender
Germany and Berlin in 4 zones
USA south France west Britain north USSR east
Potsdam conference
August 1945 Churchill and Roosevelt no longer in power Zones formally agreed Eventually Germany could take control Nuremberg trials
