Booklet 3 - A New Reich

Question 1

What was the first concentration camp?

Answer 1

Dachau

Question 2

When was Dachau built?

Answer 2

March 1933

But is only used for Political Prisoners

Question 3

When was the Reichstag fire?

Answer 3

27th February 1933

Question 4

When was the failed One-day boycott of Jewish stores?

Answer 4

1 April 1933

Question 5

When was Hitler appointed chancellor?

Answer 5

January 1933

Question 6

When did Hindenburg enact Article 48?

Answer 6

28th February (day after reichstag fire)

Question 7

Who was Minister of Properganda?

Answer 7

Joseph Goebbels

Question 8

Who was Head of the SA?

Answer 8

Ernst Röhm

Killed in the battle of the long knives

Question 9

Who was Head of the SS?

Answer 9

Heinrich Himmler

Question 10

Who was President until 1934?

Answer 10

Hindenburg

No president replaced him
Hitler became Fuhrer instead

Question 11

What was the Enabling act?

Answer 11

Gave Emergency power to the government for 4 years.

Was renewed again in 1938

Question 12

What were the nuremberg laws?

Answer 12

Anti-Jewish laws

Such as no longer viewing them as citizens

And banning Jews from marrying “pure germans”

Question 13

When were the nuremberg laws?

Answer 13

1935

Question 14

When was the Night of the long knives?

Answer 14

30 June 1934

Question 15

When were all other parties banned?

Answer 15

14 July 1933

Question 16

Between 1933-35

How much did Nazi membership increase?

Answer 16

3 million new members

Question 17

24 hours after coming to power Hitler called another election.

Despite SA intimidation, what were the results?

Answer 17

An increase in votes from 33% to 44%.

Smaller than they expected

Question 18

When was the Reichstag re-opened post fire?

Answer 18

March 1933, a quick turn around

Question 19

What was the Gleichschaltung?

Answer 19

The assimilation of Germany into the Nazi party.

Taking control of as many aspects of the country as possible

Question 20

Who Believed Hitler was A Dictator who could not dictate?

Answer 20

Historian Ian Kershaw

The Chaotic Theory

Mainwaring hates him

Question 21

Who believed Hitler was an All Powerful Leader?

Answer 21

Historian Alan Bullock

He believed Hitler made people compete with eachother because of survival of the fittest

Question 22

What happened to wages in 1933 onward?

Answer 22

They were froze at this level

Question 23

What were the Nazi equivalents to Trade Unions?

Answer 23

Councils of Trust

However they were near useless

Question 24

What did the RAD do?

Answer 24

Give 6 months compulsory labour for men between 19-25

Question 25

What did the KDF provide?

Answer 25

Subsidised holidays for workers

Question 26

How many people went on KDF holidays in 1938?

Answer 26

10 million people in 1938

Question 27

How many leaders of the SA were murdered on the night of the long knives?

Answer 27

300

Question 28

How many times did Hitler’s cabinet meet in 1933 and then in 1936

Answer 28

1933 - 72 times

1936 - 4 times

Question 29

How many times did Hitler meet with the head of Agriculture?

Answer 29

Once… when he appointed him

Question 30

What was Goring’s position?

Answer 30

“Minister without Portfolio”

Meaning a Minister not in charge of anything particular

Question 31

What Uprising did Hitler lead back in 1923?

Answer 31

The Munich Putch

Question 32

What was Hitler’s famous book that spread his ideology?

Answer 32

Mein Kampf

My struggle

Question 33

Who was Minister for he Economy?

Answer 33

Schacht, until he resigned in 1937

As he and Göring’s work kept colliding

Question 34

Who was control of the Luftwaffe given to?

Answer 34

Göring

Question 35

When did the Hitler Youth become compulsory?

Answer 35

1939

Question 36

What were the Bronze, Silver and Gold Women’s cross awards for?

Answer 36

Bronze - 4/5 Kids

Silver - 6/7 Kids

Gold - 8 or more kids

Question 37

When were all non-nazi youth groups banned?

Answer 37

1933

Question 38

How many “Adolf Hitler Schools” were set up?

Answer 38

10

Question 39

Who were the Edelweiss Pirates?

Answer 39

Students who met up and listened to Jazz and were an opposite to the Hitler Youth.

In 1944 12 were hanged for “assassinating” a gestapo agent

Question 40

What was the female youth Group?

Answer 40

League of German Girls

Question 41

How did the Number of Members in the Hitler Youth Increase between 1932 and 1936?

Answer 41

1932 - 200,000

1936 - 5.4 million