Lesson Y9-U05-L03

Y9-U05-L03 Controlling Young Minds Schools & Hitler Youth Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 18

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Lesson Y9-U05-L03, Controlling Young Minds Schools & Hitler Youth: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 18: Year 9: Life in Nazi Germany, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Why did the Nazis target young people in particular?

    • Children were the only group allowed to vote
    • Adults were already too old to change
    • Beliefs learned in childhood last a lifetime
    • Adults were unable to read before 1933

  2. What did Hitler mean when he said 'your child belongs to us already'?

    • Children were legally adopted by the state at birth and raised in camps
    • Children could only attend schools near the front line of the army
    • He believed children could be won over even if their parents opposed the Nazis
    • Children were sent to work in mines to support their families financially

  3. Which Nazi youth movement trained boys to become future soldiers?

    • The Swing Youth
    • The League of German Girls
    • The Edelweiss Pirates
    • The Hitler Youth

  4. What did the League of German Girls (BDM) train girls to become?

    • Future wives and mothers of 'Aryan' children
    • Future soldiers in the German army, trained in weapons and tactics
    • Future teachers of Nazi history in state-run primary schools
    • Future ministers in the Reichstag and local government councils

  5. What was the Nazi idea of 'Aryan'?

    • A type of uniform worn by Hitler Youth members on parade days
    • A political party formed in Bavaria in 1920 that later joined the Nazis
    • A Nazi name for the German parliament building in the capital city
    • A false idea of a 'master race' of tall, blond, blue-eyed Germans

  6. How did the Nazis change history lessons?

    • They taught that Versailles was a betrayal and that Hitler had made Germany great again
    • They removed history from the timetable altogether in every single school
    • They taught that Germany had never been at war with any other country
    • They taught only the history of ancient Rome and classical Greece in full

  7. Which subject taught pupils the false idea of an 'Aryan master race'?

    • Physical Education, which trained pupils in gymnastics and team games
    • Biology, known as 'Race Studies'
    • Music, which taught pupils classical songs and marching tunes for parades
    • Geography, which taught pupils about rivers, mountains and climate zones

  8. What did Nazi geography lessons teach about 'Lebensraum'?

    • That Germany already had too much land and should give some away
    • That Germany needed land in the east that should be conquered
    • That Germany should reduce its population by moving families abroad
    • That Germany should trade only with America and ignore its neighbours

  9. What share of the school day was given to Physical Education in Nazi schools?

    • One third
    • One fifth
    • One half
    • One tenth

  10. How many young Germans belonged to the youth movements by 1939?

    • Over 7 million
    • Over 700,000
    • Around 70,000
    • Around 70 million

  11. What had membership of the youth movements become by 1939?

    • Compulsory
    • Banned for girls
    • Restricted to the children of soldiers
    • Voluntary only

  12. Which activities were typical of the Hitler Youth?

    • Camping, marching, map-reading and shooting
    • Painting, theatre and folk dancing
    • Pottery, gardening and language lessons
    • Trade courses and accounting

  13. Who were the Edelweiss Pirates?

    • Teenagers who fought for the Hitler Youth in 1945 in the final battles of Berlin
    • Nazi officers training in the SS and marching in full uniform every week
    • Working-class teenagers who mocked the Hitler Youth and sang banned songs
    • Girls who taught sewing classes in the BDM to younger members each Sunday

  14. Who were the Swing Youth?

    • Teachers who taught Nazi maths problems to pupils in primary schools
    • Boys from the Hitler Youth who marched to rallies and sang Nazi songs
    • Girls who trained to be mothers of soldiers in the League of German Girls
    • Middle-class teenagers who loved banned American jazz and dancing

  15. Which maths problem did Nazi schools use to spread their ideas?

    • A word problem comparing the cost of caring for disabled people with the cost of bombs
    • A problem working out the price of a radio for a family budget at home
    • A problem measuring the size of a Nazi rally stadium and its seating plan
    • A problem counting the books burned in a public square in May 1933

  16. When a pupil hears only Nazi ideas in every lesson, which process is taking place?

    • Indoctrination
    • Curriculum choice
    • Democratic voting
    • Free debate

  17. Why was it so hard for pupils to escape Nazi ideas in school?

    • Textbooks were printed in foreign languages that pupils had to translate
    • Teachers were told to speak only in German in every lesson and corridor
    • Only history lessons carried Nazi messages, while other subjects stayed neutral
    • Every subject, even maths and PE, carried Nazi messages

  18. Which youth group trained girls in first aid, cooking and child-care?

    • The League of German Girls
    • The Edelweiss Pirates
    • The Swing Youth
    • The Hitler Youth

  19. Why did the mix of fun and training make the youth groups so effective?

    • Parents paid for every activity at the camps and most of the trips
    • Children enjoyed the camps and friendship, so they obeyed without questioning
    • Children were forced to play games with no choice about who they joined
    • The fun was limited to weekends only, and the training was always optional

  20. Which best describes how historians judge the Nazis' control of the young?

    • Control applied only to girls in the League of German Girls
    • Control was complete, and no young person resisted
    • Control was powerful but not total, and some young people still resisted
    • Control was weak, with almost no young people in the youth groups

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