Youth

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BGS History GCSE Revision Tests
Youth
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1) The Nazis tried to brainwash young people
into supporting them what is another word for
brainwashing?

• Indoctrination

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2) What was the name of the Nazi Youth
organisation?

• Hitler Youth

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3) In which year was membership made compulsory,
i.e. were all young people forced to join this?

• 1936

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4) List two different activities boys did in the
Hitler Youth, and explain why they did them. 2

1. Jump out of a first floor window wearing full
   combat gear. This would train them for the
   dangerous activities in the army
2. Listen to Nazi ideas. This would help them to
   become indoctrinated with Nazi ideals.

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5) What was the equivalent of the Hitler Youth
for girls?

• League of German Maidens

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6) List two different activities girls did in
this organisation, and explain why they did them.
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• Learn how to cook. This would help them to become
  good Aryan housewives to their husbands.
• Encouraged to have babies. This would help them
  produce a new generation of Aryans that Hitler
  could put in his army.

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7) Schools were also important to the Nazis.
What did teachers have to do if they wanted to
carry on teaching?

• Teachers had to agree to teach the Nazi ideas
  otherwise they were sacked

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8) Give an example of how lessons changed under
the Nazis.

• PE many more PE lessons Biology children
  were taught Nazi racial ideas of the superiority
  of the Aryan race History taught about the
  unfairness of Treaty of Versailles.

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9) Name two groups of young people that opposed
the Nazis.

1. The White Rose
2. The Edelweiss Pirates