Important groups

Question 1

NSDAP

Answer 1

National Socialist German Worker’s Party
Founded in 1919 by Anton Drexler
HItler became leader in 1921

Question 2

SPD

Answer 2

Social Democratic Party
Industrialisation made them the largest party in the Reichstag by 1912.

Question 3

Edelweiss Pirates

Answer 3

Anti-Nazi youth group
3000 teenagers
Became bolder as the war went on (raiding nazi camps, anti nazi slogans)
Leaders publicly hanged in November 1944.

Question 4

Swing Youth

Answer 4

Anti-Nazi youth group
Went to parties
Listened to American jazz (banned because of Black origins)
Befriended Jews

Question 5

Freikorps

Answer 5

Paramilitary group of ex-soldiers
Involved in the subduing of the Spartacist Uprising

Question 6

Spartacus League

Answer 6

The name given to the communist party in post-World War One Germany.

Question 7

Kreisau Circle

Answer 7

A group of army officers, university professors and aristocrats who often talked about assassinating Hitler and gettting rid of the Nazis but never actually did anything

Question 8

Stormtroopers (SA)

Answer 8

Paramilitary group
Founded 1921
Used methods of intimidation to sway the electorate

Question 9

Hitler Youth

Answer 9

Created in 1926 as a result of the Bamberg conference
100,000 members by 1933
Through these organizations, the Nazi regime planned to indoctrinate young people with Nazi ideology. This was part of the process of Nazifying German society. The aim of this process was to dismantle existing social structures and traditions. The Nazi youth groups were about imposing conformity. Youth throughout Germany wore the same uniforms, sang the same Nazi songs, and participated in similar activities.

Question 10

League of German Girls

Answer 10

Trained girls ages 14 to 17 for comradeship, domestic duties, and motherhood
Compulsory from 1936