How did the Nazis control Germany

Question 1

In what year did the Nazis start sponsoring book burnings?

Answer 1

1933

Question 2

In May of 1933, how many people came to watch the book burnings?

Answer 2

Up to 40,000

Question 3

When the Nazis came to power, how many newspapers were there and how many did they control?

Answer 3

There were 4700 newspapers in Germany and the Nazis controlled 3% of them

Question 4

What happened to newspapers that weren’t controlled by the Nazis?

Answer 4

They were censored in a process called Aryanisation

Question 5

What is the name of a family that had to give up their newspaper?

Answer 5

The German Jewish Ulstein family were forced to sell their newspaper for 10% of its value in 1934. The newspaper was then put under Nazi leadership

Question 6

When was the Nuremberg rally?

Answer 6

1935

Question 7

Why were there rallies?

Answer 7

To show off Nazi strength and to make people proud to be Nazis and German.

Question 8

What did films have to have?

Answer 8

All films had to carry a pro-nazi message, whether it be the main plot or slightly.

Question 9

What types of films were censored?

Answer 9

Pre-existing films and foreign films were banned.

Question 10

What music was censored?

Answer 10

Most music was censored, but mainly music produced by ethnic groups that the Nazis despised.

Question 11

What genre of music was the most censored?

Answer 11

American Jazz

Question 12

How did Nazis shame art that they didn’t like?

Answer 12

They put out a degenerate art exhibition in 1937

Question 13

How many gold medals did Germany win in 1936?

Answer 13

33 gold medals.

Question 14

In what year did Germany win the bid to host the Olympics?

Answer 14

1931

Question 15

How many people could the Berlin Olympic Stadium fit?

Answer 15

100,000 - the largest stadium at the time

Question 16

Who was Jesse Owens?

Answer 16

A black athlete from the USA that won 4 gold medals and dented Germany’s success in the Olympics.

Question 17

What did spectators in the Berlin Olympic Stadium do to show Germany’s strength?

Answer 17

They saluted to Hitler and spelled out “We belong to you”

Question 18

What was the name of the Nazi radio?

Answer 18

The Volksempfänger, which sold over 100,000 units in the first 2 days of launch. 2/3 of households owned a Volksempfänger by 1941.

Question 19

How did Goebbels get people to buy the Nazi radio?

Answer 19

He made the radio half the price of other radios.

Question 20

What percentage of Germany was protestant?

Answer 20

62%

Question 21

What percentage of Germany was catholic?

Answer 21

32%

Question 22

What percentage of Germany was jewish?

Answer 22

0.8%

Question 23

How did Hitler control the Protestant church?

Answer 23

He tried to combine the Protestant Churches into the Reich Church. It was led Protestant Bishop Ludwig Miller

Question 24

Was Hitler able to control the Protestant Church?

Answer 24

No, because many Germans felt like their loyalties lay with their local churches.

Question 25

How did Hitler control the Catholic Church?

Answer 25

Hitler signed a Concordat with the Catholic Church in 1933. This meant Hitler agreed to leave the Catholic Church alone if it stayed out of politics

Question 26

What were the limitations to Hitler trying to control the Protestant Church?

Answer 26

Pastor Martin Niemöller was one of the most high-profile of the regime in the 1930s. He spent 1938-45 in a concentration camp.

Question 27

What were the limitations to Hitler trying to control the Catholic Church?

Answer 27

Bishop Galen criticised the Nazis throughout the 1930s. In 1941 he led a protest against Nazi policies of killing mentally ill and disabled people - he managed to make the Nazis temporarily stop

Question 28

By 1944, how many members did the SS have?

Answer 28

1 million

Question 29

Who was the head of the SS?

Answer 29

Heinrich Himmler

Question 30

Who led the Gestapo?

Answer 30

Reinhard Heydrich

Question 31

How many members did the Gestapo have?

Answer 31

30,000

Question 32

Who were the SD?

Answer 32

Members of the SS that spied on the SS to ensure there were no traitors.

Question 33

What were the Gestapo allowed to do?

Answer 33

Listen to phone calls, search homes

Question 34

Why did the Gestapo work so well?

Answer 34

Germans thought the Gestapo were more powerful that they actually were, meaning people would report other people in fear that the Gestapo would arrest them.

Question 35

How did justice work?

Answer 35

Top jobs in local police stations were given to high-ranking Nazis. They ignored crimes committed by Nazis. The Nazis also controlled judges and magistrates. This meant opposers of Nazism rarely got a fair trial.

Question 36

When was the first concentration camp set up?

Answer 36

In 1933 right after Hitler came to power

Question 37

How many Germans went to concentration camps?

Answer 37

Around 1.3 million Germans spent at least some time in camps between 1933-39

Question 38

How did the Protestant Church resist the Nazis?

Answer 38

They published a leaflet In 1934 which talked about how they disagreed with Nazi ideology (e.g hating jews as christianity stands for brotherly love)

Question 39

How did Margarethe Lachmund and the Quakers oppose the Nazis?

Answer 39

They helped an organisation called The Church Aid Office For Protestant Non-Aryans. She helped Jews leave Germany

Question 40

Who were the Quakers?

Answer 40

A religious group

Question 41

How did Werner Blumenburg oppose the Nazis?

Answer 41

He made an organisation called the Socialist Front at the end of 1933 which published 10 page anti-nazi newsletters every 4-6 weeks. Each issue had no more than 1000 readers.

Question 42

How did Georg Elser oppose the Nazis?

Answer 42

He was a committed communist that voted for the communist party until 1933. In 1939 he tried to assassinate Hitler, Goebbels and Goering. He planted a bomb in a hall the men were at but they left early. Elser was found out and died in a concentration camp in 1945.

Question 43

How did the SPD oppose the Nazis?

Answer 43

They posted a leaflet in January of 1934 which was published in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 10,000 copies were smuggled into Germany. A quote from the leaflet : "poisoning the youth with. spirit of military aggression"