German home front in WW2

How do we often characterise the period 1941-1943 for the German war effort?

• Victory seems within grasp

• The tide turns against Germany

• The long slog

• Stalemate

................. was introduced in September 1939, covering more items than in Britain.

Answer explanation

German people received seven food ration cards, colour-coded for different foods.

Some categories - heavy industry workers, sick people, pregnant women - could receive more.

........................... was only available two days per week.

• Coal

• Electricity

• Hot water

• Food shopping

Where did Hitler invade in June 1941?

Name of the policy Nazi Germany was pursuing from 1943-1944: ................... war

Answer explanation

Nothing will be produced that does not support the war effort. The whole society is geared towards this.

(Does this remind you of a Russian civil war policy? In what way/s is it similar?)

In order to help deal with labour shortages caused by men sent to serve in the army, by May 1944 large numbers of prisoners of war and captured foreign workers were being forced to work in factories and on farms. How many?

• More than 1 million

• 10 million

• 500,000

• More than 7 million

Tick all the reasons that explain why the number of doctors in Berlin fell from 15 per 10,000 in the 1930s to 1 per 10,000 by 1941.

• Doctors were serving in the army

• Jewish doctors had been sacked and/or had left Germany

• Some doctors left to escape air raids

• Women doctors had been sacked

• People in Berlin did not need doctors

Which year saw increased intensity of allied bombing in German cities - i.e. a turning point in bombing? (This then continued until the end of the war).

• 1939

• 1944

• 1942

• 1946

In early 1945 which German city was heavily bombed by the British?

Answer explanation

The Dresden bombings have been the subject of much controversy, with some believing that the loss of civilian life coupled with the harm to a historic city amounts to a war crime.