Weekly Review 3

Question 1

When was ‘The Night of the Long Knives’?

Answer 1

30 June 1934

Question 2

How many people were arrested and murdered by the SA after the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 2

Several hundred

Question 3

Which prominent figures were arrested and murdered on the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 3

Rohm and Von Schleicher

Question 4

What was the Marburg Speech?

Answer 4

Given at the University of Marburg by Von Papen, criticised the SA and other aspects of Nazism

Question 5

How many laws did the Reichstag pass from 1934 to 1945?

Answer 5

7

Question 6

When was the Civil Service purged of Jews and opponents?

Answer 6

1933

Question 7

What ministry did Hitler set up and prefer to the foreign ministry?

Answer 7

Bureau Rippentrop

Question 8

What new ministry was set up with Joseph Goebbels in charge?

Answer 8

Reich Propaganda Ministry

Question 9

What was the principle of Volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 9

German nation working together as a racially united body under Nazi government

Question 10

What was the policy of Führerprinzip?

Answer 10

Hierarchy which Nazi state operated under, each level had a clear leader

Question 11

What was Wilhelm Frick’s role?

Answer 11

Minister of the Interior, ran regional and local government

Question 12

When was the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich?

Answer 12

30 January 1934

Question 13

What was the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich?

Answer 13

Terminated the Laender

Question 14

When was the Gestapo set up?

Answer 14

26 April 1933

Question 15

Who ran the Gestapo?

Answer 15

Goering

Question 16

What happened to the Gestapo in 1936?

Answer 16

Taken over by the SS but still run as separate groups

Question 17

What were concentration camps initially?

Answer 17

Run by Gestapo, opponents could be held indefinitely without trial

Question 18

What was the change in numbers of SS personnel?

Answer 18

rose from 240,000 in 1939 to over 1 million in 1944

Question 19

How many ‘military districts’ were formed?

Answer 19

13

Question 20

What was the Volkssturm?

Answer 20

Home Guard

Question 21

Who was appointed high commander of the armed forces?

Answer 21

Wilhelm Keitel

Question 22

What was the Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich?

Answer 22

Co-ordinate domestic affairs to support the war effort

Question 23

When was the Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich set up?

Answer 23

30 August 1939

Question 24

Who was a part of the Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich?

Answer 24

Chaired by Goering, members: Frick, Funk, Keitel, Hess and Lammers

Question 25

What was Walther Funk's role?

Answer 25

Minister of the Economy

Question 26

What was Rudolf Hess' role?

Answer 26

deputy Fuehrer

Question 27

What was Hans Lammers' role?

Answer 27

Secretary

Question 28

When was the Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich disbanded?

Answer 28

November 1939

Question 29

Who was the 'Group of Three'?

Answer 29

Frick, Funk and Keitel

Question 30

What was Lebensraum?

Answer 30

Land taken from other countries to provide Germany with resources

Question 31

Who was in charge of clearing out undesirables from the Lebensraum?

Answer 31

SS

Question 32

What happened to Polish leaders?

Answer 32

Shot

Question 32

What did Hitler declare all Poles to be?

Answer 32

Untrustworthy, only used for hard labour

Question 33

Who was in charge of running the new Lebensraum?

Answer 33

11 new Reichsgau

Question 34

What happened to Southern Poland?

Answer 34

Treated as a colony, used as a dumping ground

Question 35

How many Germans moved to Warthegau (Western Poland)?

Answer 35

Over half a million

Question 36

How many Poles were deported East to make room?

Answer 36

Over half a million

Question 37

What power did the Gauleiters gain in 1942?

Answer 37

Control of all civil defence measures

Question 38

When was the Decree for the Implementation of Total War Mobilisation?

Answer 38

August 1944

Question 39

What was the Decree for the Implementation of Total War Mobilisation?

Answer 39

Gave the Gauleiters control over local bureaucracy and local businesses

Question 40

When did Germany invade the USSR?

Answer 40

22 June 1941

Question 41

What age did Germany conscript boys from in 1944?

Answer 41

16

Question 42

When did the USA join WW2?

Answer 42

December 1941

Question 43

When did Hitler commit suicide?

Answer 43

30 April 1945

Question 44

When did Goebbels commit suicide?

Answer 44

1 May 1945 (day after Hitler)