Chapter 12 - The establishment of Nazi dictatorship January - March 1933

Question 1

When did Hitler become chancellor?

Answer 1

30th January 1933

Question 2

How many posts were the Nazi party holding?

Answer 2

3 out of 12

Question 3

Who was vice-chancellor in 1933?

Answer 3

Franz Papen

Question 4

Who were the two Nazi ministers?

Answer 4

Ministers of the interior Wilhelm Frick

Minister without portfolio

Question 5

Who was minister for economics?

Answer 5

Alfred Hugenberg

Question 6

Who was made foreign minister?

Answer 6

Freiherr Von Neurath

Question 7

How many people attended Hitler’s torchlight procession?

Answer 7

100,000

Question 8

Who was Hitlers propaganda chief?

Answer 8

Joseph Goebbels

Question 9

What did Hitler’s torchlight procession show?

Answer 9

That his appointment as chancellor would not be a normal change of government

Question 10

How many people did the SA have in January 1933?

Answer 10

500,000

Question 11

How many members did the SA have in 1934?

Answer 11

3 million

Question 12

What did the ministers allow Hitler to do?

Answer 12

To control the police

Question 13

What happened on the 5th Feb to the SPD mayor?

Answer 13

A young Nazi shot him dead in a small town of Prussia

Question 14

What happened to communists, socialists and trade unionists?

Answer 14

Rounded up and imprisoned in makeshift concentration camps

Question 15

When and where was the first concentration camp established?

Answer 15

8th March 1933 in Dachau

Question 16

How many people could the first concentration camp hold?

Answer 16

5000

Question 17

By July 1933 how many political prisoners had been arrested?

Answer 17

26, 789

Question 18

When was the Reichstag fire?

Answer 18

27th February

Question 19

Who was blamed for the Reichstag fire?

Answer 19

Marinus van der Lubbe

Question 20

What did the Nazis claim the Reichstag fire was apart of?

Answer 20

A communist plot

Question 21

When was the decree for the protection of the people passed?

Answer 21

28th February

Question 22

What was the decree for the protection of the people

Answer 22

Suspended important civil and political rights

Question 23

What could the police do?

Answer 23

Arrest those deemed a threat to state security and enter and search private premises

Question 24

What did the Nazis claim in their propaganda campaign?

Answer 24

That Germany was on the brink of a ‘German Bolshevik revolution’

Question 25

How many communists did the police arrest?

Answer 25

10,000

Question 26

What happened in the March 1933?

Answer 26

Although Nazi votes increased since the previous elections, it was not as much as Hitler hoped

Question 27

When did Hitler pass the enabling act?

Answer 27

24th March 1933

Question 28

What was the enabling act?

Answer 28

Hitler could pass lawas without the approval of the Reichstag or Hindenburg for 4 years

Question 29

How did Hitler win the support of the Nazi party?

Answer 29

He reassured them that he would not use his powers without consulting Hindenburg first