nazis

Question 1

What happened to Hitler in 1923

Answer 1

He was jailed for trying to overthrow the government

Question 2

What did the Nazis promise and how many people were involved in the party in 1930

Answer 2

• prosperous and less humiliating future
• 300,000

Question 3

What was the enabling act of 1933

Answer 3

Made Hitler make laws and control without anyone having a say

Question 4

When was the enabling act passed

Answer 4

1933

Question 5

What happened in 1933 regarding politics

Answer 5

All political parties banned regarding the Nazi party

Question 6

What happened to Germany after WW1

Answer 6

They had to pay for lots of reperations but couldn’t afford it so they looked at other elections for help

Question 7

What happened in July 1932

Answer 7

Nazis won 230 seats in elections for the Reichstag

Question 8

What did Hitler demand to be but Hindenburg refused

Answer 8

Chancellor

Question 9

What were the elections of 1933

Answer 9

• controlled news media and opposition meetings banned
• used SA (Nazi’s army) to terrorise opponents
• Hitler blamed communists for the Reichstag fire
• basic human rights suspended

Question 10

What was the SA (depth)

Answer 10

• Ernst Rohm was the leader
• By 1934, SA had more members than the German army

Question 11

What happens in August 1934

Answer 11

Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes furher

Question 12

What was the night of the long knives

Answer 12

• 29th-30th July
• Hitler sent members of the SS to remove all political opposition against Hitler
• it showed Hitler was above the law

Question 13

What happened in April 1933

Answer 13

Laws were introduced to sack civil servants who didn’t support the Nazis accept their rules

Question 14

What was the Gestapo

Answer 14

Secret police

Question 15

Gestapo in depth

Answer 15

• ruled by Himmler
• protected by Germans but very harshly (imprisonment without trial)
• wardens employed to make sure Germans were loyal to Nazis (encouraged to report disloyalty)

Question 16

Who was Goebbles

Answer 16

• created all propaganda for Hitler
• created ‘Hitler Myth’ which made Hitler a God
• All writers had to register the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in 1933

Question 17

By 1939 what did German People have in households

Answer 17

70% of households had a radio

Question 18

By 1944 what % of newspapers were nazified

Answer 18

82

Question 19

What were the opposition groups to Hitler

Answer 19

POLITICAL-LEFT
- communists and social democrats
- tried to organise strikes
- networks blocked by Gestapo and lots were executed
CHURCH
- Niemoller (Protestant pastor) used a sermon in 1937 to protect against persecution of Church - spent years in concentration camps
- Bonhoeffer tried to assassinate Hitler - caught + imprisoned + executed
- Clemens August Von Galen used sermons to protest against Nazi racial policies - support of German Catholics stopped him from executed
YOUTH GROUPS
- Edelweiss Pirates helped to escape concentration camp prisoners + leaflets - hanged in public or arrested
- Swing kids listened to American music and drunk alcohol - arrested or sent to concentration camps

Question 20

What was the the League of German Maidens

Answer 20

• Spread the idea that it was an honour to produce large families
• taught cooking and sewing
• 14/18

Question 21

What was rewards were given to women producing large families

Answer 21

• Volkswagen scheme
• strength through joy (provided workers with cheap holidays and leisure activities
• Beauty of labour (encouraged factory owners to improve conditions for workers)

Question 22

What was expected of women

Answer 22

Dress plainly and were discouraged from wearing makeup and smoking and banned from being lawyers in 1936

Question 23

What was the Hitler Youth

Answer 23

• founded 1926
• Boys aged 14+
• trained as loyal Nazi leaders
• compulsory in 1936
• ended up fighting along side adults

Question 24

What were Nuremberg laws

Answer 24

Stopped Jews from being citizens
Jews forced to close/sell businesses
Banned non Jews and Jews marrying
By 1938 Jewish children banned from German schools

Question 25

What was Kristalnacht

Answer 25

- Anti Jewish rioting through Germany - thousands shops/synagogues broken and sent to concentration camps

Question 26

Who was in charge of the economy

Answer 26

Herman Goering

Question 27

Who was Speer

Answer 27

Focused on economy completely Increased weapon production

Question 28

What was the White Rose Group

Answer 28

Used passive resistance (graffiti and leaflets) Students and lecturers from Munich University Later arrested by Gestapo

Question 29

What was the July plot of 1944

Answer 29

Stauffenburg tried to kill Hitler by bomb and didn’t work

Question 30

What was total war

Answer 30

Evreryone had to be put to use in war as well as resources Rationing and civilian clothing no longer manufactured Auxiliary hospitals established Flooded w refugees Left many homeless

Question 31

What was forbidden against Germans

Answer 31

Being hostile Listening to foreign propaganda

Question 32

What were the Einsatzgruppen

Answer 32

Followed German army w orders to kill every Jew they found Ghettos were for waiting to be deported (many died from disease or starvation)

Question 33

What did the einsatzgruppen do

Answer 33

Round up and killed people leaving them in a ditch / gas chambers

Question 34

Who and how helped the Germans

Answer 34

Government helped by persecution of Jews

Question 35

Death camps

Answer 35

Himmler in charge Hair cut off, tattooed w registration no 6 mil Jews killed