👨🏻 Power & Authority

Question 1

reparations bill GER #

Answer 1

6.6b British pounds

Question 2

bruning exploiting Article 48 ruled from…

Answer 2

Mar 1930

signalled the “end of democracy…3 years before Hitler’s appointment” (AJP Taylor)

Question 3

GD imp on GER pop

Answer 3

by 1932, over 6 million people were out of work, ⅓ of the workforce

Question 4

GD imp on Nazis

Answer 4

Nazi Party grew from being one of the smallest parties in the Reichstag with 12 seats in May 1929 to the single largest party with 230 seats in July 1932

Question 5

GD started?

Answer 5

1929

Question 6

date Hitler -> chancellor

nature

Answer 6

appointed in 30 Jan 1933

Question 7

reichstag 🔥 + date of reichstag 🔥 decree

Answer 7

the actual fire: 27th feb
the decree signed by Hindenburg: 28th feb

Question 8

fed reichstag elections after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor

Answer 8

5 March, 1933

Nazis increased vote to 43.9% and have 288 seats (still not majority)

Question 9

enabling act
date + significance

Answer 9

24th March 1933

CORNERSTONE OF HITLER’S DICTATORSHIP

Question 10

how nazis passed enabling act?

Answer 10

prevented all 81 communists and 26/120 social democrats from taking their seats -> sent them to Dachau

rest had nazi men with 🔫s standing behind them

Question 11

enabling act passed with…

Answer 11

2/3 majority

Question 12

date: expulsion of Js from civil service

Answer 12

7th April 1933

Question 13

date: Nazis ban rival pol parties

Answer 13

14th July 1933

‘Law Against the Founding of New Parties’ -> 1 party dictatorship

Question 14

date: Nazi P and Catholic P sign concordat

Answer 14

20th July 1933

basically telling each other “you leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone”

Question 15

date: NotLK

Answer 15

30th June - 2nd July 1934

Question 16

NotLK # killed

Answer 16

400

Question 17

date: President Hind death

Answer 17

2nd aug 1934

Question 18

how hitler becoming fuhrer was the ultimate solidifying final (for the time being) consolidation of pwr?

Answer 18

• Plebiscite - 90% of voters agreed he should become Fuhrer (very stable position moving forward)
• 2nd August - Reichswehr swears an Oath of Allegiance to Hitler (they take their oaths VERY SERIOUSLY)

Question 19

date: Decree for Defence Against Malicious Attacks Against the Government

Answer 19

21 March 1933

Question 20

date: Law for the Coordination of the States of the Reich

Answer 20

31 March and 7 April 1933

Question 21

date: ATU

Answer 21

2nd May 1933

Question 22

date: LAEP

Answer 22

14 July 1933

Question 23

date: LRR

Answer 23

30th January 1934

Question 24

date: LRMSSD

Answer 24

3rd July 1934

Question 25

date: RLL

Answer 25

26th June 1935

Question 26

SA formed when?

Answer 26

1921

Question 27

Gestapo numbers, superficial element

Answer 27

30,000 members of the Gestapo in the whole country

Essen 43 members of Gestapo had 650,000 residents → shows importance of block wardens and informers and public denunciations

Question 28

Concentration camps as a method of terror + repression

Answer 28

Between 1934 and 1939, 200 000 people passed through CCs, “the most effective instrument” according to Hitler

Question 29

SS as a tool of terror + repression

Answer 29

By 1935, there were 200,000 Blackshirts operating in Germany

Question 30

ToV signed when?

Answer 30

28 June 1919

Question 31

TRIANON-HUNDARY (date)

Answer 31

signed on 4 June 1920

Question 32

TRIANON-HUNGARY (conditions)

Answer 32

Lost territory to Romania (Transylvania) and Yugoslavia, military reduced to 35,000 standing army