Consolidation of Power- Terror & repression in the Nazi state

Question 1

The SS and Waffen SS- When was the SS established

Who lead it?

Answer 1

1925

Heinrich Himmler

Question 2

The Gestapo- When was the Gestapo established

Answer 2

1933

Question 3

The SS and Waffen SS- How many men were a part of the SS in 1939?

Answer 3

900,000 men.

Question 4

The concentration camp- what was the timeline of Concentration camps?

Answer 4

1933-45

Question 5

The concentration camp- Between 1934-39 how many people were interned.

Answer 5

200,000

Question 6

The concentration camp- When did the concentration camps become work death camps? and why

Answer 6

1939
Germany acquired new territory
prisoners worked till death

Question 7

Treatment of Minority Groups- How were homosexuals treated?

Answer 7

where illegal

worked in death camps

Question 8

Treatment of Minority Groups- How were the Romani treated? what happened to them?

Answer 8

Inferior people
not racially german
1940 gypsies were sent to poland death camps
200,000 killed by end of the war

Question 9

Treatment of Minority Groups- how were the disabled treated?
How many killed by T4?
How many people were killed in 1945

Answer 9

unfit
not considered to have a life worth living
70,000 killed by T4
1945 275,000 people killed

Question 10

Nationalism & the Jews- What were the views towards Jews in 19th Century Germany? (Weimar)

Answer 10

Acceptance fought in ww1
Weimar Jews had equal rights with other Germans
However, some believed Jews were “not German” & needed to be excluded.

Question 11

Hitlers anti-semitism- What were Hitlers views on blood purity?

Answer 11

Believed civilisations decline when ‘blood purity’ not maintained – gov must preserve.
Jews = parasitic – believed in ‘Jewish’ conspiracy + responsible for Germany’s defeat in WW1.

Question 12

Persecution of Jews- Examples of anti-semitism in 1922-35?

Answer 12

1933 -35; passed laws to removed Jews from civil service + restricted access to school
Boycotted Jewish business.
Expelled from art + cultural – however Nazis wary about international criticism

Question 13

Persecution of Jews- What did the 1935 Nuremberg Laws do to Jews?

Answer 13

Isolated Jews – forbade marriage btwn Germans + Jews.

Stripped Jews of citizenship.

Question 14

Persecution of Jews- What did the 1937 Nuremberg Laws do to Jews?

Answer 14

all Jewish business had to registered + some seized.
Prevented from using public spaces.
Issued ‘identification papers’ – ‘red J on passport’.
Publication of anti Jewish literature;
The Poisonous Mushroom + Der Strumer.

Question 15

The Night of Broken Glass- What happened on 9th November 1938 to Jewish People?

Answer 15

SA + SS troops smashed + brunt property w approval of leadership.
1000+ synagogues attacked, 7000 shops, 1000 Jews killed.
20,000 Jews rounded up + placed in camps.