4.2 Nazi control through terror

Question 1

When was Goebbels appointed Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda?

Answer 1

January 1933

Question 2

When was Hitler appointed Chancellor?

Answer 2

30th January 1933

Question 3

When was the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 3

27th February 1933

Question 4

When did Hindenburg use Article 48 to issue decrees that helped the Nazis?

Answer 4

28th February 1933

Question 5

In what election did the Nazis win 44% of the vote?

Answer 5

5th March 1933

Question 6

When was the Enabling Act passed?

Answer 6

24th March 1933

Question 7

When did the Nazis close down Germany’s 18 separate state parliaments?

Answer 7

31st March 1933

Question 8

When did the Nazi government organise a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses?

Answer 8

April 1933

Question 9

When was the purge of the teaching profession under the Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service?

Answer 9

7th April 1933

Question 10

When did the Nazis break into trade union offices and arrest leaders?

Answer 10

2nd May 1933

Question 11

When were the Social Democrats suspended from the Reichstag?

Answer 11

10th May 1933

Question 12

When was the Law for Encouragement of Marriage?

Answer 12

1st June 1933

Question 13

When did Hitler create a new law banning all political parties except the Nazi Party?

Answer 13

July 1933

Question 14

Hitler’s rule was ___

Answer 14

Totalitarian

Question 15

Who was in charge of the SS?

Answer 15

Himmler

Question 16

What does the SS stand for?

Answer 16

Schutzstaffel

Question 17

By the end of 1934, how many members did the SS have?

Answer 17

400,000

Question 18

In 1935, how many members of the SS were discharged on moral, racial, and physical grounds?

Answer 18

200,000

Question 19

What were the SS responsible for?

Answer 19

Enforcing the party’s racial policy and running the concentration camps

Question 20

What did Hermann Goring set up in 1933?

Answer 20

The Gestapo

Question 21

Who took over the Gestapo in 1936?

Answer 21

Himmler

Question 22

What were the Gestapo?

Answer 22

The secret police

Question 23

What did the Gestapo rely on for information?

Answer 23

Informants. e.g. 54% of all race related charges were initiated by private citizens in Wurzburg

Each block of flats had a block leader to report suspicious behaviour

Question 24

What powers did the Gestapo have?

Answer 24

• Search houses

- Appoint local block wardens

Question 25

Who ran the concentration camps?

Answer 25

Himmler

Question 26

It was illegal to even tell jokes about Hitler under what law?

Answer 26

The Law on Malicious Gossip

Question 27

Why were concentration camps set up?

Answer 27

They were first set up as temporary prisons and prisoners were taken there to be questioned and ‘re-educated’

Question 28

By 1939, the Nazis were using the concentration camps for what?

Answer 28

By 1939, the Nazis had built up a huge business in using prisoners for slave labour, extracting raw materials and weapons manufacturing

Question 29

Which police group ran the concentration camps?

Answer 29

Death’s Head section of the SS

Question 30

What did judges have to take an oath to?

Answer 30

Hitler

Question 31

The number of crimes punishable by death rose from what to what?

Answer 31

3 in 1933 to 46 in 1943

Including listening to foreign radio stations