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Question 1

Who was the woman Hitler married at the end of World War II?

Answer 1

Eva Braun

Question 2

Who flew to Scotland to negotiate peace with the British in 1941?

Answer 2

Rudolf Hess

Question 3

Who was Marinus van der Lubbe?

Answer 3

Man executed for Reichstag fire.

Question 4

Which WWI general took part in the 1923 putsch?

Answer 4

General Ludendorff

Question 5

Where did the Nazi party hold rallies, one of which was filmed in The Triumph of the Will?

Answer 5

Nuremberg

Question 6

In prison, Hitler wrote most of his famous book titled what?

Answer 6

Mein Kampf

Question 7

What was the euthanasia programme used to kill people considered a burden because of illness of disability?

Answer 7

T7

Question 8

Which senior Nazi was seriously injured in the putsch and later took charge of Prussia?

Answer 8

Hermann Goering

Question 9

How were the Schutzstaffel better known?

Answer 9

The SS

Question 10

Who was responsible for organising Hitler’s election campaigns?

Answer 10

Josef Goebbels

Question 11

What is the word Nazis used to describe people of less value than Aryan Germans?

Answer 11

Üntermensch

Question 12

Which political party was banned after the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 12

Communist (KPD)

Question 13

What was the Confessing Church?

Answer 13

Formed by Pastors’ Emergency league resisting Nazi control

Question 14

The Reichswehr were renamed in 1935. What was the new name for the army?

Answer 14

Wehrmacht

Question 15

What was the first camp opened for political prisoners in 1932?

Answer 15

Dachau

Question 16

Name of death squads operating first in invaded Poland?

Answer 16

Einsatzgruppen

Question 17

What were the three Ks deemed the concerns of good German women?

Answer 17

Kinder, Küche, Kirche (Children, kitchen, church)

Question 18

Heinrich Himmler took control of the Prussian secret police. What were they called?

Answer 18

Gestapo

Question 19

In which nation was the Sudetenland after WWI?

Answer 19

Czeckoslovakia

Question 20

On the 9th November 1938, Ernst vom Rath died. What was the violent consequence of this?

Answer 20

Kristallnacht

Question 21

Which country signed the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact in 1939?

Answer 21

Germany and Russia

Question 22

What is the translation of Blitzkrieg?

Answer 22

Lightning war

Question 23

What was the first camp with no work or barracks, but used just to kill Jewish prisoners.

Answer 23

Chelmno

Question 24

What was Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 24

Invasion of Russia

Question 25

What was the Operation that established extermination centres at Treblinka, Sorbibor and Belzek?

Answer 25

Operation Rheinhard

Question 26

Nazi leader placed in arrest by Hitler on 30th June 1934 and executed next day in a purge of the SA?

Answer 26

Ernst Röhm

Question 27

Who helped build a case against Röhm resulting in his arrest and death, and was himself assassinated in 1942?

Answer 27

Reinhard Heydrich

Question 28

What was the Volksempfänger?

Answer 28

People’s radio

Question 29

What antisemitic publication did Julius Streicher publish?

Answer 29

Der Stürmer

Question 30

The Reich Citizenship Law was one of the 1935 laws known as what?

Answer 30

The Nuremberg Laws

Question 31

Before Jewish children were stopped from attending, in schools Jewish pupils were limited to what percentage?

Answer 31

0.05

Question 32

Haus Wachenfeld, renamed the Berghof, was one of Hitler’s homes. Where was it?

Answer 32

Bavarian mountains

Question 33

What was the People’s Car called?

Answer 33

Volkswagen

Question 34

Into which country did Nazi soldiers arrive in March 1938?

Answer 34

Austria

Question 35

What was the KDF and what did it offer?

Answer 35

Strength Through Joy - discounts and rewards for workers

Question 36

What was the (Motherhood) Honour Cross and how did woman achieve a silver award?

Answer 36

Award for producing four or more children. Six for silver.

Question 37

What was the Völkischer Beobachter?

Answer 37

Nazi newspaper - The People’s Observer

Question 38

What 1933 law led to Jewish teachers and other workers losing jobs in German schools?

Answer 38

Law for the Reconstruction of the Professional Civil Service

Question 39

In what year did Hitler relaunch the Nazi party after the ban was lifted?

Answer 39

1925

Question 40

In 1933, Hitler made a Concordant with which religion?

Answer 40

Catholic Church

Question 41

What was the Bund Deutscher Mädel?

Answer 41

League of German Maidens (Hitler Youth for Girls)

Question 42

Hitler’s policies included one of securing more living space for German people called what?

Answer 42

Lebensraum

Question 43

What measure allowed Hitler to pas laws without them being voted on?

Answer 43

Enabling Act 1933

Question 44

In May 1933, German citizens were encouraged to do what publicly?

Answer 44

Burn unacceptable literature

Question 45

When trade unions were banned in 1933, what organisation did the Nazis say replaced them?

Answer 45

German Labour Front [DAF]

Question 46

In what year did Hindenburg die and Hitler become Germany’s Führer?

Answer 46

1934

Question 47

Number of points on 1921 programme of Nazi principles?

Answer 47

25

Question 48

Who did Hindenburg appoint Chancellor rather than Hitler in 1932?

Answer 48

Franz von Papen

Question 49

Who took control of the SS in 1929 and later all state policing?

Answer 49

Heinrich Himmler

Question 50

What was the name of the Nazi codename for plans to maintain order if Nazi leaders were assassinated?

Answer 50

Operation Valkyrie