1. BGS History
GCSE Revision Tests
Youth

2. 1) The Nazis tried to brainwash young people into supporting them – what is another word for brainwashing?
Indoctrination

3. 2) What was the name of the Nazi Youth organisation?
Hitler Youth

4. 3) In which year was membership made compulsory, i. e
3) In which year was membership made compulsory, i.e. were all young people forced to join this?
1936

5. 4) List two different activities boys did in the Hitler Youth, and explain why they did them. [2]
Jump out of a first floor window wearing full combat gear. This would train them for the dangerous activities in the army
Listen to Nazi ideas. This would help them to become indoctrinated with Nazi ideals.

6. 5) What was the equivalent of the Hitler Youth for girls?
League of German Maidens

7. 6) List two different activities girls did in this organisation, and explain why they did them. [2]
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.

8. 7) Schools were also important to the Nazis
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

9. 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.

10. 9) Name two groups of young people that opposed the Nazis.
The White Rose
The Edelweiss Pirates