Nazi and Weimar Germany

Question 1

What is meant by Dolstchoss and why did Germans feel it?

Answer 1

Stab in the back, many soldiers did not feel they had really lost the war as the fighting was mainly in France & Belgium.

Question 2

Give two terms of the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 2

Germany had to accept blame for the damage caused, had to pay £6.6 billion in reparations, they lost all their colonies, Alsace-Lorraine and the Polish corridor, 100,00 men in the army.

Question 3

What is hyperinflation and how did it impact ordinary Germans?

Answer 3

When money uncontrollably loses its value, people lost their savings and struggled to afford the cost of living.

Question 4

Give two ways Stresseman helped Germany to enjoy a ‘Golden Age’ in the 1920s

Answer 4

Introduced new currency the Rentenmark, Dawes Plan, Young Plan, Kellogg-Briand Pact, joined League of Nations

Question 5

Why was the Munich Putsch a long-term success for the Nazis?

Answer 5

They changed their tactics from violence to getting democratically elected, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison, publicity from the trial

Question 6

Name the three Nazi groups who kept control of the German people within the police state

Answer 6

SS, SD & Gestapo

Question 7

Give one way the Nazis controlled the Church and the Law Courts

Answer 7

Church: Concordat with the Pope, the Reich Church, controlling Church schools
Courts: Abolished Juries, judges had to join Nazi League and swear and oath, peoples law courts

Question 8

Give three methods of Nazi propaganda

Answer 8

Poster, speeches, newspapers, films, Olympics

Question 9

Give three methods the Nazis used to fix Germany’s economy

Answer 9

Autobans, R.A.D. (Labour service), Re-armament

Question 10

Give one example of how the Nazis got women and children to conform to their ideals

Answer 10

Women: mother’s cross, three K’s, propaganda
Children: Youth groups, control of education, propaganda

Question 11

Give an example of Church opposition against the Nazis

Answer 11

Pastor Neinmollar, the Confessing Church

Question 12

Name two Youth Opposition groups

Answer 12

The Edelweiss Pirates, the Swing Youth, the White Rose

Question 13

List three ways the Nazis persecuted minorities

Answer 13

The 1935 Nuremberg Laws, concentration camps, Kristallnacht, Law for the prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, Sterilisation, euthanasia, deportation