(6.) In the Garden of Beasts: (Part SIX)

Question 0

➡️ Ch. 39 ⬅️

Why did the Regendanz dinner become infamous?

Answer 0

▪️ Gestapo informed of party 
▪️How they were informed is unknown
▪️ Infamous because of the seven guest at the dinner party...
- FOUR murdered
- ONE fled country due to death threat
- ONE imprisoned in concentration camp

Question 1

➡️ Ch. 39 ⬅️

Why did Messersmith leave his post in Germany?

Answer 1

▪️ Wanted to leave consular service behind

▪️ Appointed by Roosevelt to the position of Ambassador to Austria

Question 2

➡️ Ch.40 ⬅ ️

What was purpose of Reich Literary Chamber?

Answer 2

▪️ Claimed the right in Germany to decide what constituted acceptable literature

Question 3

➡️ Ch.40 ⬅ ️

Summarize TWO ways German writers responded to Hitler’s ascension to power…

Answer 3

▪️ Those who were not outright Nazis divided into;

• Those who believed it immoral to stay in Germany
• Those who felt best strategy was to stay put, recede as much as possible from the world, and wait for collapse of Hitler’s regime

Question 4

➡️ Ch.41 ⬅ ️

What ominous sign did the Dodd’s notice in Bendlerstrasse?

Answer 4

▪️ Soldiers stood guard on Headquarter building roof top
▪️ Heavily armed soldiers patrolled the sidewalks
▪️ Army trucks and Gestapo cars clogged the streets

Question 5

➡️ Ch.43 ⬅ ️

How did President Hindenburg, the international community, and the German people respond to Papen’s speech?

Answer 5

▪️ Gave a great relief
▪️ “Difficult to describe the joy of which it was received in Germany.”
▪️ Papen’s put into words what thousands of German countrymen had locked up in their hearts for fear of the awful penalties of speech

Question 6

➡️ Ch.43 ⬅ ️

What steps did Goebbels take to prevent the distribution of Papen’s speech?

Answer 6

▪️ Banned broadcast of speech
▪️ Ordered destruction of gramophone speech was recorded on
▪️ Banned newspapers from publishing it’s text or reporting on its context
▪️ So intent on stopping it was said copies of speech were “snatched from the hands of the guests of restaurants and coffee houses

Question 7

➡️ Ch.44 ⬅ ️

What happened to Edgar Jung as a result of his involvement in the Marburg speech?

Answer 7

▪️ He was sure the speech would “cost him his life”
▪️ His housekeeper found home ransacked and on Jung’s medicine cabinet found words, “GESTAPO”
▪️ He had been kidnapped by Nazi Gestapo