Chapter 13 (NOT FINAL)

Question 1

When was the Enabling Act passed?

Answer 1

24 March 1933

Question 2

When was the First Law for the Coordination of the Federal States passed?

Answer 2

31 March 1933

Question 3

When was the Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service passed?

Answer 3

7 April 1933

Question 4

When was the Second Law for the Coordination of the Federal States passed?

Answer 4

7 April 1933

Question 5

When was the SPD outlawed?

Answer 5

22 June 1933

Question 6

What was the SPD outlawed as?

Answer 6

‘a party hostile to the nation and the state’

Question 7

When did the Centre Party voluntarily disband?

Answer 7

5 July 1933

Question 8

When was the Law against the Formation of New Parties passed?

Answer 8

14 July 1933

Question 9

When were Reichstag elections held in 1933?

Answer 9

5 March and 12 November.

Question 10

What was the result of the Reichstag elections on 12 November 1933?

Answer 10

Nazis won 92% of the vote.

Question 11

When was the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich passed?

Answer 11

30 January 1934

Question 12

When was the Reichsrat abolished?

Answer 12

14 February 1934

Question 13

When was the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 13

30 June 1934

Question 14

When did President Hindenburg die?

Answer 14

2 August 1934

Question 15

When did Hitler take the title of Fuhrer?

Answer 15

19 August 1934

Question 16

What did the national socialist revolution mean to Hitler?

Answer 16

The conquest of political power.

Question 17

How did Hitler view political parties?

Answer 17

As mere election machines.

Question 18

What was the Nazi Party in Hitler’s view?

Answer 18

The ‘racial core’ of the entire German people.

Question 19

What happened to KPD members after the Reichstag fire?

Answer 19

Those who had not been arrested or murdered or put into concentration camps fled into exile.

Question 20

When did the DNVP voluntarily disband?

Answer 20

27 June 1933

Question 21

What territory and population did Prussia comprise?

Answer 21

60% of territory; 50% of population.

Question 22

Who was Reich Commissioner of Prussia in Hitler’s cabinet?

Answer 22

Hermann Goering.

Question 23

What did the First Law for the Coordination of the Federal States do?

Answer 23

It dissolved the existing state assemblies and replaced them with Nazi-dominated ones.

Question 24

What did the Second Law for the Coordination of the Federal States do?

Answer 24

It created the post of Reich Governor to oversee the government of each state, ensuring they followed Nazi central government orders.

Question 25

What did the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich do?

Answer 25

It abolished the state assemblies and the governments of the states were subordinated to the Reich.

Question 26

Who were Gauleiters?

Answer 26

Nazi party leaders at state level.

Question 27

Why was the civil service's support for Hitler misplaced?

Answer 27

They thought the conservative ministers in Hitler's cabinet would restrain the Nazis and allow the Civil Service to carry on as it did under the Kaiser.

Question 28

How did the Nazis view the Civil Service?

Answer 28

As an obstacle to their dictatorial power.

Question 29

What was the SA membership in January 1933?

Answer 29

500,000

Question 30

What was the SA membership by January 1934?

Answer 30

3 million

Question 31

When was the auxiliary police formed?

Answer 31

February 1933

Question 32

Who was forbidden from interfering with the auxiliary police?

Answer 32

Normal state police forces.

Question 33

When did Hitler consider the process of Gleichschaltung completed?

Answer 33

July 1933

Question 34

What was Ernst Rohm's chief aim?

Answer 34

For the SA to become the new national militia and eventually take over existing army.

Question 35

What was the combined SA and Stahlhelm membership in January 1934?

Answer 35

4.5 million

Question 36

When was the auxiliary police disbanded?

Answer 36

August 1933

Question 37

What was the only institution capable of removing Hitler from office?

Answer 37

The army, and they were loyal to hindenburg.

Question 38

Who was the Defence Minister in Hitler's Cabinet?

Answer 38

Werner von Blomberg

Question 39

What did the SA start doing in the summer of 1934?

Answer 39

They began stopping army convoys and confiscating weapons and supplies.

Question 40

What did Blomberg, with Hindenburg's support, threaten to do in 1934 to clamp down on the SA?

Answer 40

Declare martial law and give the army power to deal with the SA.

Question 41

How many people were executed in the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 41

84

Question 42

How many people were arrested in the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 42

1000

Question 43

Who were some of the people eliminated in the NOTLK?

Answer 43

Rohm, General Schleicher, Gregor Strasser, and Gustav von Kahr.

Question 44

How did Hitler justify the NOTLK?

Answer 44

He claimed to have acted in order to save the country from an SA coup.

Question 45

How was terror used after June 1934 and by who?

Answer 45

More systematically and by the SS.

Question 46

What was Hindenburg's preference upon his death as mentioned in his political will?

Answer 46

The restoration of the monarchy.

Question 47

What had Hindenburg considered doing in order to control to SA?

Answer 47

Dismissing Hitler and handing power to the army.

Question 48

What was the trigger for the NOTLK?

Answer 48

Hitler knew that if he did not bring the SA under control he could not count on the support of the army once Hindenburg died.

Question 49

After the NOTLK, what was the attitude of the army leaders and Blomberg?

Answer 49

They had no issue with Hitler succeeding Hindenburg as president now the SA threat was removed.

Question 50

How long did it take the announcement of the Chancellorship and the Presidency being merged to be released?

Answer 50

Within an hour of Hindenburg's death.

Question 51

What did the army do on the day of Hindenburg's death?

Answer 51

They took an Oath of Allegiance to Hitler as their new Commander-in-Chief.

Question 52

What happened on 19 August 1934?

Answer 52

A plebiscite was held to approve Hitler's appointment as Fuhrer.

Question 53

What was the result of the plebiscite held on 19 August 1934?

Answer 53

89.9% approved.

Question 54

How long had it taken for Hitler to consolidate his power?

Answer 54

18 months, culminating in the plebiscite in August 1934.

Question 55

Where is the Aryan Paragraph found?

Answer 55

In the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

Question 56

When was the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service passed?

Answer 56

7 April 1933