Germany KQ2

Question 1

Why do the nazis gain power?

Answer 1

1926-goebbels in charge of propaganda
1928-17 seats
1930- Hindenburg lets chancellor use article 48, people lose confidence in the government 
1932- hitler 4-5 rallies per day
1932-230 seats

Question 2

How did the nazis do in July 1932?

Answer 2

37.5% of votes, biggest party in reichstag

Hitler demanded to be chancellor but Hindenburg hated him so chose Von papen

Question 3

Why was hitler Denied the chance to be chancellor, even though the nazis were the biggest party and who was elected instead?

Answer 3

Hindenburg hated hitler, he elected Von papen instead

Question 4

Who replaced Von papen?

Answer 4

Von schleicher, the members of the reichstag didn’t like Von papen, they didn’t like Von Schleicher either

Question 5

What deal did hitler make

Answer 5

He would be chancellor and Von papen vice, Hindenburg reluctantly agreed, 30th jan 1933- hitler becomes chancellor

Question 6

What problems did hitler have?

Answer 6

Only 2 out of 12 ministers were nazi
Less than half the seats were nazi
Hindenburg could sack hitler at any time

Question 7

Reichstag fire

Answer 7

Feb 1933 Dutch communist van der lubbe is found near to a burning reichstag, hitler blames him and the communists are banned from campaigning
Issued an emergency decree to ban basic rights such as freedom of speech, closed Social Democrats’ newspapers

Question 8

Enabling act

Answer 8

March 1933 used article 48 to make decisions without reichstag approval for 4 years removed civil rights and made nazis only party
Used SA and SS to make members of the Reichstag vote for it
441-94

Question 9

Night of the long knives

Answer 9

The SS were tasked with murdering possible enemies to the nazis, this included Ernst Rohm, the sa leader, as he knew the sa were too strong.
30th June 1934

Question 10

Who dies in August 1934

Answer 10

Hindenburg, hitler is now führer

Question 11

What does gleichstaltung mean?

Answer 11

Control of every part of life. Trade unions banned, workers part of nazi union. Boys in hitler youth, no local governments. No other political parties from 1933

Question 12

SS

Answer 12

Led by himmler, they were hitler’s personal bodyguard
Dealt with opposition violently
Killed SA members in night of the long knives
Elite bodyguard

Question 13

Gestapo

Answer 13

Part of SS led by Heydrich, arrest without trial, political opponents and Jews in concentration camps
18 camps knows as “Death Head’s Units”

Question 14

Legal system

Answer 14

Peoples court put enemies on trial, hitler made all laws, nazis could get away with anything, judges swore an oath

Question 15

Posters

Answer 15

Cheap and easy

Nazi youth and SS portrayed very well, nazi posters

Question 16

Newspapers

Answer 16

1926 der angriff “the attack” started off weekly and then became daily with the purpose of attacking political opponents and Jews
Der Sturmer told Germans that Jews kidnapped children

Question 17

Film

Answer 17

Show hitler in a good way
Aryan
Triumph of the will- 1934 shows nazi Congress in Nuremberg

Question 18

Depression on Germany

Answer 18

October 1929 Wall Street Crash
Germany relied in German loans in Dawes Plan
900k unemployed 1929, 3.3m 1930, 6m 1932

Question 19

What happened in 1933?

Answer 19

Joseph Goebbels became minister for Enlightenment and Propaganda

Question 20

Censorship

Answer 20

1933- 20,000 Jewish and Communist books burned
Jewish Artist’s works destroyed
1938- 10,000 newspapers/magazines gone, 2500 textbooks burned
No jazz or associated dancing