Rise of the Nazis

Question 1

When Hitler bacame chancellor, how many Nazis were in his Cabinet?

Answer 1

2, Hermann Goering and Wilhelm Frick

Question 2

Which event took place on the 27th February 1933?

Answer 2

Reichstag fire

Question 3

Which communist was blamed for the fire?

Answer 3

Marinus van de Lubbe

Question 4

What did Hitler issue in March 1933 that destroyed the power of the reichstag?

Answer 4

The enabling act

Question 5

After the Communist party was banned, how may votes did the Nazis get?

Answer 5

444, compared to 94 from the oppsition

Question 6

Which group was immediatly suppressed by Hitler after his rise to power?

Answer 6

Unions, Opposition parties and local governments

Question 7

Which leader was a threat to Hitler in 1934?

Answer 7

Ernst Rohm

Question 8

Which verteran army group merged with the SA to take its membership to 3 million?

Answer 8

The Stahlhelm

Question 9

What name was given to the event where SA officials were rounded up and shot?

Answer 9

The night of the long knives

Question 10

What did Hitler proclaim himself to be after claiming power?

Answer 10

Fuhrer

Question 11

Who was in charge of the SS?

Answer 11

Heidrich Himmler

Question 12

Who was placed in charge of the Gestapo?

Answer 12

Reinhart Heydrich

Question 13

How many people were in ‘protective prisons’ by 1939?

Answer 13

150,000

Question 14

What was the name of the first concentration camp?

Answer 14

Dachau

Question 15

How many people were exectued from 1934-39

Answer 15

534

Question 16

What was the name given to the agreement between the Pope and Hitler?

Answer 16

The Reichskonkordant

Question 17

Who was the first leader of the Nazi church?

Answer 17

Ludwig Muller

Question 18

Which organisation did Nemoller set up to campaign against the Nazis?

Answer 18

The Pastor’s emergent league

Question 19

What term is used to signify a country with only one leader/ruling party, with no opposition?

Answer 19

Totalitarian state

Question 20

What does propaganda do?

Answer 20

Manipulate opinions or create new ones

Question 21

Who was the propaganda minister of Nazi Germany?

Answer 21

Joseph Goebbels

Question 22

How many newspapers were banned in 1935?

Answer 22

1500

Question 23

What percentage of houses had a ‘people’s radio’?

Answer 23

70%

Question 24

What was held each year to show support for the Nazis?

Answer 24

The Nuremburg rallies

Question 25

Which event was held in 1936 to show the power of the Aryan race?

Answer 25

The 1936 berlin olympics

Question 26

What role did the chamber of culture do to cultural activities to ensure Nazi ideals?

Answer 26

Gleichschanltung

Question 27

In may 1933 how many books were burnt, that were written by Jews?

Answer 27

20,000

Question 28

How many films were released by the Nazi parti?

Answer 28

1300

Question 29

In which anti communist film showed a young member of the nazi party being killed by communists?

Answer 29

Hitlerjunge Quex

Question 30

What did the PEL set up in 1934?

Answer 30

The Confessing Church

Question 31

How many times more members did the Confessing church have than the Reich church?

Answer 31

3 times more members than the Reich church

Question 32

How many protestan pastors were in concentration camps?

Answer 32

800

Question 33

How many catholic priests were in the priest's block at Dachau?

Answer 33

400

Question 34

Which working class opposition group opposed the Hitler youth?

Answer 34

The Edelweiss pirates

Question 35

How did they oppose the Nazis?

Answer 35

By attacking them or taunting them

Question 36

Which middle class opposition group was created soon after the Edelweiss pirates?

Answer 36

Swing Youth

Question 37

How many swing youth members attended illegal Louis armstrong dances?

Answer 37

6,000

Question 38

Who was appointed Women's Reich leader in 1934?

Answer 38

Gertrud Scholtz- Klink

Question 39

What did she insist all women's organisations join?

Answer 39

Deutches Frauenwerk

Question 40

How many members did the DFW get?

Answer 40

6 million

Question 41

What was offered to young couples to encourage them to marry, in 1933?

Answer 41

A 1,000 mark loan, equivalent to 8 months wages

Question 42

How many children did a woman need to have to earn a Golden cross of honour for the German mother?

Answer 42

8 for gold, 6 for silver, 4 for bronze.

Question 43

What did Himmler set up in 1935?

Answer 43

The lebensborn programme

Question 44

What type of child did the Lebensborn programme promote?

Answer 44

Genetically pure ideally Aryan children

Question 45

How many children were born from one Lebensborn home from 1938 to 1941?

Answer 45

540

Question 46

By the end of 1934, how many women had given up work?

Answer 46

360,000

Question 47

How many women were back working in 1939?

Answer 47

7 million

Question 48

What did Hitler believe children would allow him to create?

Answer 48

A Thousand Year Reich

Question 49

How many members did Nazi youth groups have in 1932?

Answer 49

100,000

Question 50

What had this risen to by 1939?

Answer 50

8 million

Question 51

What was the name for the boys youth group?

Answer 51

Hitlerjugend

Question 52

What were its primary aims?

Answer 52

To capture the minds of children, to educate them in Nazi ideals, and to prepare them to be soliders

Question 53

What was the female equivalent of this group?

Answer 53

League of German Maidens

Question 54

What were the girls taught to secure racial purity?

Answer 54

Racial hygiene

Question 55

Which subject taught about how different races were superior?

Answer 55

Race studies

Question 56

Which lesson was given double the curriculum space

Answer 56

PE

Question 57

Which book was made compulsory in school?

Answer 57

Mein Kampf

Question 58

What percentage of the population was unemployed in 1933

Answer 58

25%

Question 59

Which program was set up to solve this?

Answer 59

RAD

Question 60

How many workers did RAD have in 1935?

Answer 60

422,000

Question 61

What did Hitler send 125,000 men to do in 1935?

Answer 61

Build the autobahns

Question 62

How much was military spending in 1939?

Answer 62

26 billion marks

Question 63

What was set up to remove trade unions?

Answer 63

the DAF

Question 64

What was promised through the strength through joy movement for 5 marks a week

Answer 64

A Volkswagen beetle, the people's car

Question 65

What did the beauty of labour campaign get?

Answer 65

Better working facilities

Question 66

What is the term used to describe selective breeding?

Answer 66

Eugenics

Question 67

Which race did the Nazis consider to be superior?

Answer 67

The Aryan race

Question 68

What were the Jews considered to be?

Answer 68

Lebensunwertes Leben

Question 69

What term refers to the persecution of the Jews?

Answer 69

Anti-Semitism

Question 70

Which programme was responsible for the deaths of 5,000 disabled children?

Answer 70

Aktion T4

Question 71

Under the Nuremburg laws, what did Jews lose?

Answer 71

Citizenship and rights to marriage

Question 72

What happened on the 9th of November 1938?

Answer 72

Kristallnacht ( the night of broken glass)

Question 73

How many Jews were killed during krystalnacht?

Answer 73

100

Question 74

How Many Jews were sent to concentration camps?

Answer 74

20,000

Question 75

What was the purpose of the Reich office for emigration, set up by Heydrich in 1939?

Answer 75

To deport all the Jews from Germany

Question 76

Who was appointed economics minister in 1937?

Answer 76

Hermann Goring

Question 77

Which organisation controled the police state?

Answer 77

The SS

Question 78

When were the Nuremburg laws passed?

Answer 78

1935

Question 79

What was the name of the conference that devised the 'Final solution to the Jewish question'?

Answer 79

Wannsee