Chapter 24 (NOT FINAL)

Question 1

Name a youth group?

Answer 1

Edelweiss Pirates

Question 2

Where did the Edelweiss Pirates operate?

Answer 2

Rhineland and the Ruhr

Question 3

How did the Edelweiss Pirates resist?

Answer 3

They avoided conscription, went on expeditions to the countryside, and sang banned songs.

Question 4

What happened to the leaders of the Cologne Edelweiss Pirates?

Answer 4

Publicly hanged in November 1944

Question 5

What class were members of the Edelweiss Pirates from?

Answer 5

The working class

Question 6

Who were the Swing Youth?

Answer 6

A middle-class youth group that resisted Nazi ideals.

Question 7

How did the Swing Youth resist?

Answer 7

They listened to jazz and swing music and wore English-style dress.

Question 8

Who led the White Rose group?

Answer 8

Hans and Sophie Scholl

Question 9

Where were the White Rose group based?

Answer 9

Munich University

Question 10

When were the Scholl’s executed?

Answer 10

February 1943

Question 11

What did Bishop Galen do in 1940?

Answer 11

Spoke out against the Nazi Aktion T4 programme.

Question 12

When was Operation Barbarossa launched?

Answer 12

June 1941

Question 13

What did elites plan to do in 1938?

Answer 13

Overthrow Hitler

Question 14

What was the Kreisau Circle?

Answer 14

A group of aristocrats, lawyers, SPD politicians and churchmen that opposed the Nazis.

Question 15

What belief linked the members of the Kreisau Circle?

Answer 15

A Belief in personal freedom and individual responsibility.

Question 16

How many meetings did the Kreisau Circle hold and when?

Answer 16

Just three meetings between 1942-43.

Question 17

Where were the meetings of the Kreisau Circle held?

Answer 17

At the home of Count Helmut von Moltke

Question 18

When was the first attempt to assassinate Hitler?

Answer 18

March 1943

Question 19

Why did the first attempt to assassinate Hitler fail?

Answer 19

The bomb placed on his plane failed to explode.

Question 20

When was the Kreisau Circle arrested by the SS?

Answer 20

April 1943

Question 21

What was Operation Valkyrie?

Answer 21

The plans made by the army to assassinate Hitler and install a provisional government to negotiate a peace with the Allies.

Question 22

What did Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg manage to do and when?

Answer 22

Plant a bomb at Hitler’s headquarters in Prussia in July 1944.

Question 23

What was the result of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt?

Answer 23

The bomb went off but Hitler only suffered minor injuries.

Question 24

What was the impact on the army after Colonel Claus van Stauffenberg’s assassination attempt?

Answer 24

The army lost all of its independence and was placed under SS control.

Question 25

How were the plotters of the assassination attempts viewed by the German people?

Answer 25

They were seen as traitors and the public were not sympathetic with their cause.

Question 26

Who planted a bomb at Hitler’s headquarters in Prussia?

Answer 26

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

Question 27

What was the name of the group of elites that tried to oppose Hitler?

Answer 27

Kreisau Circle

Question 28

What group did Hans and Sophie Scholl lead?

Answer 28

White Rose Group