Germany 4(Part 2)

Question 1

Persecution of Jews

Answer 1

• 1935 Nuremberg Laws (Jews no longer citizens, could not marry Germans)
• November 1938 Kristallnacht
• 1941 “Final solution”

Question 2

Gestapo

Answer 2

• 1933 Goerring set up
• Huge numbers of spies among regular people
• Had the power to search houses and arrest with no reason
• 1942, 30,000 officers

Question 3

Concentration camps

Answer 3

• 200,000 imprisoned for opposition
• The Law on Malicious Gossip made it illegal to tell even jokes about Hitler.
• Run by Deaths Head section of SS

Question 4

SS under Himmler

Answer 4

• Himmler appointed leader 1929
• 240,000 members in 1939
• Members personally vetted by Himmler as “Aryan”
• Most ruthless and loyal Nazis

Question 5

Arts/Music

Censorship

Answer 5

• All artists had to join Reich Chamber of Commerce
• Jazz was banned for being “black”
• Art had to feature Aryans

Question 6

Literature

Censorship

Answer 6

• Ministry of propaganda made a list of banned books
• Gestapo would search for and burn any non-Nazi literature
• Millions of books by Jewish or Communist authors were burned