Nazi control and dictatorship

Question 1

Dutch communist blamed for Reichstag fire

Answer 1

Marinus van der Lubbe

Question 2

German election 1933

Answer 2

5/03, 1 week after reichstag fire

Question 3

1933 election results

Answer 3

nazi 43.9%
DNVP 7.9%
coallition

Question 4

enabling act

Answer 4

23/03/33
444 to 94

Question 5

14/07/33

Answer 5

all political parties banned except from nazis

Question 6

Trade Unions

Answer 6

May 1933:
leaders arrested and sent to concentration camps, unions banned in replacement came the DAF

Question 7

the night of long knives

Answer 7

30/06/34, SS led by Himmler purge the SSA, 400 members killed including Rohm, All internal opposition dead. Von Schleicher killed

Question 8

night of long knives reason

Answer 8

General Werner Von Blomberg agreed to support nazis so long as SA’s power shrunk.

Question 9

Hindenburg death

Answer 9

August 1934, hitler officialy fuhrer

Question 10

a Gauletier

Answer 10

a nazi trusted by Hitler to run a province of Germany,

Question 11

law for reconstruction of the reich

Answer 11

Hitler had total control of local governments

Question 12

Gleichschaltung

Answer 12

control through force

Question 13

Nazi control on legal system

Answer 13

trials by jury removed
judges had to join national socialist league for maintenance of law
Judges had to rule in the Nazis favour

Question 14

Peoples court in berlin

Answer 14

tried political criminals who opposed Hitler. Most found guilty.

Question 15

Gestapo

Answer 15

set up by Goering in 1933
led by Heydrich in 1934
Secret police
50,000 members

Question 16

SS

Answer 16

Set up in 1925
Led by Himmler
Black uniforms
controlled police and concentration camps

Question 17

SD

Answer 17

Hitler’s security service
set up by Himmler in 1931 and led by Reinhard Heydrich

Question 18

Gestapo employees

Answer 18

32,000 full time. 200,000 informants casual

Question 19

1933 german christians

Answer 19

20 mill catholics
40 mill protestants

Question 20

leader of new nazi church

Answer 20

Ludwig Muller, reichsbischof

Question 21

changes in reichs church

Answer 21

old testament stopped, asssciated wiht jews
banned non pure aryan ministers
‘the swastika is on our chest and the cross in our hearts

Question 22

Confessional church

Answer 22

founded in 1934
led by Niemoller
6,000 churches

Question 23

The concordat

Answer 23

July 1933
Pope agrees with Hitler who in turn allows catholic schools and churches in exchange for no meddling in politics

Question 24

1937 Pope

Answer 24

with burning anxiety released
Hitler betrayed concordat and shut down churches and youth groups

Question 25

Military parade

Answer 25

annual Nuremberg rally

Question 26

Nazi sporting showcase

Answer 26

1936 Berlin Olympics

Question 27

1944 Nazi control

Answer 27

80% of german newspapers

Question 28

architect Hitler preffered

Answer 28

Albert Speer, created key buildings architecture modelled after Roman and Greek granduer

Question 29

Music

Answer 29

jewish banned Beethoven encouraged 'Degenerate' jazz music banned

Question 30

Books

Answer 30

had to be approved by chamber of culture

Question 31

Film

Answer 31

scripts had to be approved by Goebells himself Propaganda shown pre films in cinemas

Question 32

Successful Opposition

Answer 32

van Galen, a catholic cardinal made Hitler stop mentally disabled euthenisation.

Question 33

religious sent to camps

Answer 33

800 protestant pastors 400 Catholic priests sent to Dachau

Question 34

execution

Answer 34

Dietrich Bonhoffer executed post assassination attempt

Question 35

Edelweiss pirates

Answer 35

youth group in Rhineland 2,000 by 1939 grafitti/songs

Question 36

swing youth

Answer 36

wealthier people jazz music thousands attended illegal dances

Question 37

Edelweiss WW2

Answer 37

1942: 700 arrested 1944: 12 publicly hanged in Cologne

Question 38

Jazz listeners

Answer 38

sent to concentration camps

Question 39

white rose

Answer 39

during ww2 founded by Hans and Sophie scholl in munich university exposed atrocities 1943 both executed after a public protest

Question 40

The july plot

Answer 40

1944, most public insurgent event Op Valkyrie Count Stauffenberg of the army murdered along with 5,746 others, 19 generals and 26 colonels

Question 41

art

Answer 41

The Nazis wanted their art to be very different to the 'degenerate' style of modern art that was popular in the Weimar period.

Question 42

Joseph Goebbels

Answer 42

minister of public enlightenment and propaganda

Question 43

repression

Answer 43

fight back against protests