Topic 6 Terror And Persuasion

Question 1

Which 3 organisations made up the Nazi police state?

Answer 1

• SS
• Gestapo
• SD

Question 2

Who was leader of the SS?

Answer 2

Heinrich Himmler

Question 3

How many members did the SS have by 1934?

Answer 3

50,000

Question 4

Which was the most important organisation in the nazi police state that oversaw the others?

Answer 4

SS

Question 5

What was the Gestapo?

Answer 5

Nazis secret police force

Question 6

What were members of the SS expected to be?

Answer 6

Racially pure Aryans

Question 7

What were the SS responsible for?

Answer 7

• Removal of all opposition to the nazis in Germany
• running concentration camps where ‘enemies of state’ were sent

Question 8

What was the SS originally set up as?

Answer 8

Hitlers personal bodyguard service

Question 9

When were the SS originally formed?

Answer 9

1925

Question 10

What were the Gestapo responsible for?

Answer 10

• monitor German population for signs of opposition/resistance to Nazi rule

Question 11

What were the Gestapo able to do to suspected ‘enemies of state’?

Answer 11

Arrest and imprison them without trial

Question 12

How many people by 1939 were under arrest for political crimes?

Answer 12

160,000

Question 13

What were the SD?

Answer 13

An intelligence gathering service for the SS

Question 14

Who was the leader of the SD and Gestapo?

Answer 14

Reinhard Heydrich (Himmler’s right hand man)

Question 15

Who would the SD report their findings to?

Answer 15

SS and Gestapo

Question 16

Who did the SD attract?

Answer 16

Professors/highly educated people

Question 17

How were prisoners in concentration camps treated?

Answer 17

• underfed
• treated with brutality
• high mortality rates

Question 18

When were the first concentration camps set up?

Answer 18

After Enabling Act was passed

Question 19

What did all judges and lawyers have to join, forcing them to accept nazi policy?

Answer 19

National Socialist League for the Maintenance of Law and Order

Question 20

Who by and when was the Gestapo set up?

Answer 20

Goering in 1933

Question 21

What were 3 ways the Nazis controlled the courts and the legal system?

Answer 21

Nationalist Socialist League for Maintenance of Law and Order
German Lawyers Front, 10,000 members swore oath of loyalty to Hitler
New Peoples Court to try enemies of state

Question 22

What was the rise in the number of crimes punishable by death between 1933 and 1943?

Answer 22

1933= 3
1943= 46

Question 23

What did Joseph Goebbels set up in March 1934?

Answer 23

Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda

Question 24

What was the aim of the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda?

Answer 24

Control thoughts, beliefs and opinions of German people

Question 25

What were **3 ways cinema was used as nazi propaganda**?

Answer 25

**Pro-nazi storylines** **Film plots** had to be **shown to Goebbels before production** **Official news reels glorifying Hitler** shown with every film

Question 26

How were **rallies used as nazi propaganda**?

Answer 26

**Annual mass rally** of **over 10,000** in **September** at **Nuremberg, showcase nazi regime, music/flags/banners, speech by Hitler**

Question 27

How **many German families owned a radio by 1939**?

Answer 27

**70%**

Question 28

What did **all musicians, writers and actors** have to be **members** of?

Answer 28

**Reich Chamber of Culture** set up by **Goebbels**

Question 29

How **many writers were banned**?

Answer 29

**2500**

Question 30

What did **Goebbels encourage students in Berlin to do in May 1933**?

Answer 30

**Burn 20,000 books** by **Jews and communists** in **mass bonfire**