Nazism and the Rise of Hitler: CBSE Board Questions Class 9

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Youth, Ordinary People, Status of Women and the Crime Against Humanity

Nazism and the Rise of Hitler Class 9 History Previous Years’ Board Questions:


Q. Describe the role of Youth Organisations in Nazi Germany. [2016]  

Or | Mention three youth organisations that were responsible for educating German youth in the spirit of National Socialism. [2015]  

Or | Describe the youth organisations in Nazi Germany. [2013]  

Or | Explain any three methods adopted by Hitler for educating German Youth in the spirit of National Socialism. [2012]  

Ans. Three methods are listed below:  

(i) Youth Organisations were made responsible for educating German young in the spirit of National Socialism. Ten years old had to enter ‘Jung Volk’ the Nazi youth group.  

(ii) At 14, all the Boys had to join Nazi youth Organisation called ‘Hitler Youth’ where they learnt to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy and hate Jews, communists and gypsies.  

(iii) After a period of rigorous ideological and physical training, they joined the ‘Labour Service’, and later, they joined the armed forces and entered one of the youth organisations. 

Q. Explain any three effects of Nazism on the school system. [2012]  

Ans. Effects of Nazism on the School System:  

(i) Hitler was fanatically interested in the youth of the country. He believed in teaching the Nazi ideology to the students.  

(ii) Jewish Teachers who were seen as politically unreliable were dismissed from service.  

(iii) Children were segregated – German and Jews could not sit or play together.  

(iv) Good German children were subjected to a process of Nazi schooling, a prolonged period of ideological training.  

(v) School textbooks were rewritten to glorify and justify the Nazi Ideas of racial Superiority.  

(vi) Children were taught to be loyal, submissive and hate the Jews. (vii) Sports were introduced to nurture violence and aggression among students. Hitler believed that ‘Boxing could make children iron hearted, strong and masculine. 

Q. List the communities which were classified as undesirable in Nazi Germany.  [2014]  

Ans. Undesirable communities in Nazi Germany were:  

(i) Gypsies and Blacks those living in Nazi Germany.  

(ii) Russians and Poles were considered subhuman  

(iii) Jews too were inferior, threatening biological purity of the ‘superior Aryan’ race. 

Q. Describe the role of propaganda films in creating hatred for Jews.  [2013]  

Ans. (i) Most infamous film was the ‘Eternal Jew’ in which orthodox Jews were stereotyped and marked.  

(ii) They were shown with flowing beards wearing kaftans.  

(iii) They were referred to as vermin, rats and pests. Their movements were compared to those of rodents. 

Q. Highlight five main features of Nazi schooling, to establish a strong Nazi Society.  [2016]  

Or | Highlight five important features of education imparted in Nazi schools. [2015]  

Ans. Important features of education imparted in Nazi schools:  

(i) Children were segregated. The Germans and the Jews could not sit or play together. Subsequently, undesirable children like Jews and the physically handicapped; the Gypsies were thrown out of schools.  

(ii) All schools were cleansed or purified. This meant that teachers who were Jews or seen as politically unreliable were dismissed.  

(iii) Good German children were subjected to a process of Nazi schooling, a prolonged period of ideological training.  

(iv) Boxing was introduced as Hitler believed that it could make children iron-hearted, strong and masculine.  

(v) School Textbooks were rewritten.  

(vi) Children were taught to be loyal and to hate Jews and worship Hitler. 

Q. Explain the status of women in the German Society under Nazism.  [2016, 2012]  

OR | How did the assigned role for women by Nazis help in the establishment of the racial state? How were women perceived in Nazi Germany?  [2014]  

OR | Explain Hitler’s ideology regarding Women and his policy towards them. [2012]  

Ans. Status of women in Germany under Nazism:  

(i) Children in Nazi Germany were told that women were radically different from men.  

(ii) While boys were taught to be aggressive, masculine and steel-hearted, girls were told to be good Mothers and rear pure-blooded Aryan children. They had to teach Nazi values to their children.  

(iii) Women bearing Undesirable children were punished and those bearing desirable were awarded.  

(iv) Girls had to maintain the purity of race.  

(v) They had to keep distance from the Jews, look after their home and teach Nazi values to their children.  

(vi) To encourage women to produce more children, a bronze cross was given for four, silver for six and gold for eight or more children. (vii) Those who maintained contacts with the Jews, Poles or Russians were severely punished. 

(viii) In Nazi Germany, women who bore racially desirable children were rewarded with concession in shops, on theatre tickets and railway fares and favoured treatment in hospitals.  

(ix) Women those who produced racially undesirable children were punished.  

(x) All Aryan women who deviated from the prescribed code of conduct were publicly condemned and severely punished. 

Q. Mention three ways in which the world gained knowledge about Holocaust.  [2014]  

Or | What event in history is known as the Holocaust? How did the world come to know about the Holocaust? Explain. [2012]  

Ans. The persecution and mass murder of Jews by German Nazis between 1933 and 1945 is known as the Holocaust.

Sources of Holocaust information:  

(i) Information and full horror of the Holocaust was revealed after Hitler’s death.  

(ii) From diaries, notebooks, left behind by many Ghetto-inhabitants 

(iii) Many of the Jews survived to tell the stories.  

(iv) Memoirs, fictions, documentaries and poetry in many parts of the world also revealed information about Holocaust. 


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