The Nazis used different policies towards different groups of people.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2022). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [1] It was for girls.
2. [1] It was a branch of the Hitler Youth.
3. [1] It was founded in 1930.
4. [1] From 1936 membership was compulsory.
5. [1] Girls were taught that their role was as mothers.
6. [1] Girls learned domestic skills.
7. [1] Girls did physical exercise in the BDM.
8. [1] The girls attended summer camps.
9. [1] The girls were between the ages of 14 and 18.
10. [1] The girls did a compulsory year when they worked on farms.
11. [1] The girls were indoctrinated with Nazi beliefs.
12. [1] Girls were taught about Aryan purity.
13. [1] The Nazis did this because they had new ideas about what should be taught to children at school.
14. [1] To make German children believe that Germany would become the world's greatest nation.
15. [1] To make children believe Nazi ideas about race.
16. [1] To make children support the Nazis.
17. [1] To teach children that Germany had been defeated in 1918 because of Jews and Marxist spies.
18. [1] To make children believe that the Treaty of Versailles was evil.
19. [1] To make girls ready to be perfect German mothers and wives.
20. [1] To teach the boys information about war and weapons.
21. [1] PE was increased to make the girls healthy to be mothers and the boys to be strong soldiers.
22. [Explanation L3] The Nazis made changes because they wanted German children to believe in the Nazi ideas about race. The children were taught about the importance of blood purity and that Germans should only marry Germans to keep the blood pure. They were taught that Germans were Aryan, which was a superior race, and that many other groups like Jews were sub-human.
23. [1] Minorities were persecuted because the Nazis did not like them and thought they should be punished.
24. [1] Jews were persecuted to keep German blood pure.
25. [1] Jews were persecuted because they were regarded as an inferior race.
26. [1] Jews were segregated to keep them separate from Germans.
27. [1] Minorities like beggars and drunks were persecuted to stop them weakening Germany.
28. [1] Beggars and drunks were persecuted because they were a drain on German society, rather than contributing to it.
29. [Explanation L3 (Racial theories)] Minorities were punished because of Nazi ideas about race. They believed that Germans were the master race and had to be kept separate from other inferior races. These races had to be destroyed or kept under control. This is the reason Jews were persecuted. They were at first driven out of German society and then the Nazis tried to destroy all Jews in the Final Solution. This was to stop them contaminating the German race.
30. [Explanation L3 (Other reasons)] Minorities like the mentally handicapped, drunks and beggars were persecuted by the Nazis because they believed they were undesirables who were not contributing to society and were a drain on German resources. In other words, they were weakening the Nazi state. This led to them being sent to camps or sterilised. There was even an attempt to start a campaign of euthanasia.