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1
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When does Germany leave the League of Nations?

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Oct 1933

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Which law (and when) gave local Nazi Officials more power?

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Reich Local Government Law (1935)

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German word for local nazi officials

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Kreisleiter

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When was the Stresa Front formed?

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April 1935

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When was the Anglo-German naval agreement?

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June 1935

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When were the Nuremberg Laws passed?

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Sept 1935

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7
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When was Himmler appointed chief of german police?

What did this signify?

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1936

An end to the battle for control of the police

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8
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When was the Hossbach Conference?

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1937

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9
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When was the Anschluss?

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1938

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10
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When were Jewish doctors forbidden from treating Ayran patients?

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1938

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When was the Sudetenland given to Germany?

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Sept 1938

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12
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When was Kristalnacht?

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Nov 1938

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13
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What office does Goering set up with Heydrich at its head in 1939?

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Reich Office for Jewish Emigration

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When does Germany invade the rest of Czechoslovakia?

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March 1939

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15
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When is the Pact of Steel signed? With what country?

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Pact of Steel w/ Italy 1939

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16
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When is the Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich formed?

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Aug 1939

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17
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When do leading Gauleiter become Reich Defence Commissioners?

What is its significance?

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Sept 1939

Assumed total control of their region

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18
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What do intentionalist historians believe? 2 things

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Heart of the Nazi state = Hitler’s ideology, personality, and leadership

Hitler personally drove Germany towards war

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19
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Through what can we see Hitler’s ideological aims? 3 things

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25 points programme (1920)

Mein Kampf (1924)

Speeches

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20
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Which historian argued that it was a monocratic state w/ Hitler making all essential political decisions?

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Jackel

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21
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Why is the suggestion that ‘divide and rule’ was a deliberate policy wrong?

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Competing power blocs more consequence of Hitler’s social darwinist values –> allowing structures to develop on their own

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Give an example where more than 1 agency was given responsibility for the same area?

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(Steatite) Ministry of Economics and (Goering) Office of the Four Year Plan (1936)

Office given control of production of raw materials and direction of labour force –> undermining Schacht

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How did Goering undermine other ministries (other than economy)?

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agriculture and labour –> appointed civil servants from those ministries to work in the office of the Four Year Plan

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What was essential for Goering’s office to survive?

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the support of the Fuhrer

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Why is Funk replacing Schacht as Economics Minister a turning point in the radicalisation of the regime?

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Funk = willing to subordinate the Economics Ministry to the Office of the Four Year Plan

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26
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Which 2 historians came up with the structuralist theory?

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Broszat and Mommsen

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Where does the structuralist theory place Hitler’s significance?

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into the wider context of how other governmental structures developed and operated chaotically

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What do the structuralist historians believe that this chaotic competition led to?

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The radicalisation of policy

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29
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Give an example of a law that attempted to centralise the state, why didn’t it work?

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Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich (1934)

Gauleiters had large local power bases –> refused to submit to Frick’s (minister of the interior) authority –> could still appeal directly to Hitler

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How did the Reich Local Government Law (1935) give the local party leaders more power?

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Gave them the right to choose local mayors

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31
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When were all state officials made directly responsible to Hitler?

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1937

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32
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When was party membership made compulsory for civil servants?

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1939

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33
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What power did Rudolf Hess gain in 1934?

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power to supervise new laws

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34
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Why were power structures able to change and evolve?

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poorly defined roles of agencies/individuals

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35
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What increasingly challenged the civil service/traditional state?

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emergence of National Socialist agencies

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36
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On what 2 things is the level of influence of institutions based?

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access to the Fuhrer and ability to interpret his will

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37
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From when did Hitler’s lifestyle change, what did it change to?

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increasingly bohemian from 1935

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38
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Where did Hitler frequently stay?

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Mountain retreat in Bavaria

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39
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What does Kershaw argue about the Gauleiter?

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they were the “backbone” of Hitler’s power

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40
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The lack of what enhanced the Gauleiters’ power?

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collective leadership –> making them omnipotent in their regions

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41
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How many Cabinet meetings did Hitler hold in 1933?

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72

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42
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How many cabinet meetings did Hitler hold in 1938?

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0

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43
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What 2 things distanced Hitler from the mundane details of government?

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chaotic nature of dictatorship and Fuhrer myth

44
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give an example of how crucial decisions during peacetime were made by Hitler

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Night of the Long Knives (1934) –> Hitler’s idea to act with such ruthlessness

(although supported by leading Nazis to get rid of Rohm’s competition)

45
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what was a Fuhrer order?

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a verbal agreement, or nod of the head

46
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Give an example of Hitler giving contradictory/unclear orders

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Nov 1935 meeting to discuss Jewish emigration

Hess = believed Hitler wanted the Jews to emigrate ASAP

Another = believed Hitler wanted Jews to remain so that they could act as hostages

47
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What were Hitler’s main 2 foreign policy aims?

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Creation of Lebensraum

Destruction of Versailles settlement

48
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Which 2 foreign policies were an attempt to give off the appearance of moderation?

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Four Power Pact (1933) –> sought to revise the Versailles treaty by diplomacy

1934 non aggression pact w/ Poland

49
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When did conscription and rearmament begin?

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1935

50
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What was the Stresa Front (1935)? 3 things

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Britian, France, and Italy condemnation of German rearmament

re-affired Franco-german border fixed at Versailles

defended Austria’s independence

51
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In 1935 what did Russia and France do?

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allied against unprovoked aggression

52
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in 1935 what did Russia promise to which country?

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Promised to defend Czechoslovakia

53
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What was the significance of the Anglo-german agreement/ what did it agree (1935)? 3 points

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Germany allowed to build a fleet 35% the size of British Navy

Undermined the versailles treaty

broke the stresa front (1935)

54
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What was the outcome the the Saarland plebiscite? when was it?

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1935 –> 95% in favour of reunification w/ Germany

55
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Why was the reunification w/ the Saarland a triumph? 3 points

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symbolic triumph –> regain land taken by versailles treaty

economic triumph –> area rich in coal

Plebiscite held peacefully

56
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What country does Mussolini invade in 1935? What is its significance? 2 points

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Abyssinia

weakened league of nations / destroyed anti-nazi alliance

57
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How did Hitler exploit Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia (1935)?

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Remilitarisation of the Rhineland (1936) –> instructed troops to retreat at any sign of resistance (from French troops)

58
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By 1937 how large was the German army?

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500,000 strong

59
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Why was the remilitarisation of the Rhineland a foreign policy success?

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Germany had been banned from it in the treaty of versailles

60
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Give 2 examples of Germany forming key alliances w/ other countries

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Berlin-Rome Axis (1936)

Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) w/ Japan

61
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Why was the Anschluss so important to the fulfilment of Hitler’s goals?

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Anschluss = key to expansion towards the east / prohibited by treaty of Versailles

62
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Who’s decision was it to annex Austria?

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HITLER

63
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How did Hitler justify his demand that the Sudetenland be incorporated into the Reich?

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3.5mil german speakers

claimed they were being discriminated against economically by majority of Czechs

64
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When was the seizure of Czechoslovakia?

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1938-9

65
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Why did the seizure of Czechoslovakia risk european war?

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Czech state guaranteed by Versailles treaty

66
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Why did Britain and France appease Germany during the Czech Crisis? (1938)

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Russia = even bigger threat

67
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When was the Sudetenland seized?

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Oct 1938

68
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When did Germany invade the rest of Czechoslovakia? what other countries did it incorporate into the Reich?

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March 1939

Bohemia and Moravia

69
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What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939) agree? 2 points

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That Germany and Russia would partition Poland

Wouldn’t attack each other for 2 years

70
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Which 2 foreign ministers secured the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939)?

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von Ribbentrop and Molotov

71
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What did the Nazi-Soviet pact (1939) allow hitler to do?

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Seize half of Poland w/o fighting a war on 2 fronts

72
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On what grounds did Hitler invade Poland? Which 3 areas did he demand the return of?

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said that german speakers were being prosecuted –> demanded return of Silesia, the Polish Corridor, and Danzig

73
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When was war declared on Poland?

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3 Sept 1939

74
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Which leading Nazi official advised against going to war in 1939?

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Goering

75
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What was the coherent element that held Germany together?

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ideological belief that was associated w/ Hitler

76
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What does Kershaw argue about Hitler’s role in the rise and exercise of Nazi power?

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It was indispensable / he defined the reality of National Socialism in power

77
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How and why did the purpose of Nazi ideology change?

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Acquisition of power 1933 –> ideology needed to consolidate power of Fuhrer = working towards the Fuhrer

78
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Which historian came up with the idea of cumulative radicalisation?

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Mommsen

79
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Why did working towards the Fuhrer automatically mean adopting a radical position?

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Hitler = one of the most radical

80
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What did Hitler’s hatred of everyday government create?

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a power vacuum

81
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How does the idea of working towards the Fuhrer demonstrate that Hitler had a supreme role?

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all those below him were competing to interpret his worldview –> enhanced his position as it took place below him

82
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How did this chaotic structure make opposition difficult from the elite?

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FRAGMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM

83
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What was the cause of the April 1933 boycott of Jewish goods?

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SA violence against Jews –> lawyers and judges attacked in a courthouse in Breslau

Which led to condemnation from the USA

84
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Who demanded there be a boycott of jewish goods in April 1933?

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Nazi radicals e.g. Julius Streicher

85
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How did the April 1933 boycott of Jewish goods lead to a more radical response from the state? 2 things

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led to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (April 1933) –> legislation that made discrimination/removal of Jews from public life legal

Jewish lawyers banned from practising (April 1933)

86
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What were the causes of the Nuremberg Laws (1935)? 3 points

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Resurgence of agitation

1935 propaganda against Jews intensified (newspaper Der Angriff)

Grassroot Nazis wanting to implement Nazi revolution

87
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Why did Hitler pass the Nuremberg Laws 1935?
population
conservatives
radicals

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Street violence of SA disliked by population

Conservatives preferred a ‘legal’ approach

Radicals wanted the issue of sexual relations between Jews and Aryans to be dealt with

88
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What did the Nuremberg Laws (1935) do? 2 points

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Ban sexual and marital relations between Jews and Ayrans (Law for the Protection of German Blood)

all Jews lost German citizenship (Reich Citizenship Law)

89
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What was the outcome of the Nuremberg Laws (1935)? 2 points

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ended localised attacks on Jews that undermined the regime’s credibility

discrimination = legal

90
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What does the origins of Kristallnacht (nov 1938) demonstrate? 2 points

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Working towards the Fuhrer

How initiatives could arise from anywhere and in response to events

91
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Give an example of Hitler making clear his authorisation for a more radical anti-Semitic line

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Nuremberg Rally (1937) –> attacked the threat of ‘Jewish Bolshevism’

92
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What was Goering’s long-term plan in economic affairs?

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aryanise Jewish business

93
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With the Anschluss (1938) how many more Jews were incorporated into the Reich?

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195,000

94
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Which anti-Semitic legislation does Rudolf Hess claim credit for? 2 things (same year)

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1938

All Jews to adopt the names of Sarah and Israel

All Jewish passports to be stamped with a ‘J’

95
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Why was Kristallnacht (1938) initiated by Goebbels?

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his influence had been compromised by his affair w/ a Czech actress

96
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What was the trigger for Kristallnacht (1938)?

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Assassination of von Rath (German official) in Paris

97
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What was the damage done to businesses and synagogues on Kristallnacht (1938)?

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8,000 businesses destroyed

1000s of synagogues destroyed

98
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On Kristallnacht (1938) how many Jews were arrested and taken to concentration camps?

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over 30,000

99
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What was the long-term impact of Kristallnacht (1938)?

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Shifted focus of Jewish affairs to removing Jews altogether, not just from economic life

100
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What was the name of the euthanasia programme?

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Aktion T4 (1939)

101
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Roughly how many children died from Aktoin T4?

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90,000

102
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How does Aktion T4 demonstrate the chaotic state?

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it took place outside of usual government agencies

103
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in 1933 how many people were detained?

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between 150,000 - 200,000

104
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In 1935 how many people were convicted on high treason?

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5,000

105
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Between 1936-39 what did numbers held in concentration camps rise to?

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7,500 –> 21,000

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