Fact Test: Nazi Germany 1933-1939

Question 1

When was the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 1

27th Feb 1933

Question 2

Who was blamed for the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 2

A dutch communist called Marianus van der Lubbe

Question 3

Who was in charge of the police?

Answer 3

Goering

Question 4

What was the Enabling Act?

Answer 4

A 1933 Act which allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag

Question 5

How many members did the SA have in 1934?

Answer 5

2 million

Question 6

How many leaders of the SA were killed in the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 6

Estimated at 90

Question 7

The office of Fuhrer combined which offices?

Answer 7

Chancellor and President

Question 8

Who was in charge of the SS?

Answer 8

Himmler

Question 9

How many Gestapo officers were there by 1942?

Answer 9

30,000

Question 10

What was the ‘spiritual weapon of the totalitarian state’?

Answer 10

the radio according to Goebbels

Question 11

Where were the famous Nazi rallies held?

Answer 11

Nuremberg

Question 12

The 1936 Olympic Stadium could hold how many people?

Answer 12

100k

Question 13

Who was the Nazi Education Minister?

Answer 13

Bernhard Rust

Question 14

By 1937 what % of teachers were members of the Nazi Teachers’ Association?

Answer 14

90%

Question 15

By 1936 how many hours of PE per day did school children do?

Answer 15

2 hours

Question 16

How children did women have to have to get the marriage loan cancelled?

Answer 16

4

Question 17

How many children did women have to have to get a gold medal?

Answer 17

8

Question 18

Which Protestant Church supported the Nazis?

Answer 18

The Reich Church

Question 19

Which Protestant Church resisted the Nazis?

Answer 19

Confessional Church led by Niemoller and Bonhoeffer

Question 20

What was the 1933 Sterilisation law?

Answer 20

Compulsory sterilisation of hereditary ill people

Question 21

What was the T4 unit?

Answer 21

A special unit to kill disabled children

Question 22

What % of Germans were Jewish?

Answer 22

1%

Question 23

What was Kristallnacht?

Answer 23

What was Kristallnacht? - Destruction of Jewish shops, businesses, homes and synagogues in 1938

Question 24

How much did unemployment fall by?

Answer 24

1932 6 million, 1939 0.5 million