Germany KO- Theme 2 Flashcards
What happened on 10th November 1918?
Ebert-Groener Pact signed between gvt and army
What happened on 15th November 1918?
Stinnes-Legien Agreement signed between the gvt labour unions and industrialists
What happened in January 1919?
Spartacist uprising. Left wing upring led to Leibnecht and Rosa Luxemburg who aimed to replace SPD with communist gvt
What happened in January 1920?
Treaty of Versailles comes into effect
What happened in March 1920?
Kapp Putsch
Right wing uprising led by Wolfgang Kapp which aimed to replace SPD
What happened in November 1923?
Munich Putsch
Beer Hall Putsch
Right wing uprising led by Hitler which aimed to replace SPD
What happened on 28th February 1933?
The Decree for the protection of the People and State
What happened in March 1933?
First concentration camp opened
What happened on 25th March 1933?
Goebbels became propaganda minister
What happened in April 1933?
Gestapo was set up
What happened in August 1933?
Germany is a one party state
Not possible to oppose Hitler and the Nazis in Reichstag
What happened on the 4th October 1933?
Editor of a newspaper was now personally responsible for what was published in it
What happened in 1934?
The people’s court was set up
a court set up to try ‘Traitors of the Third Reich’
What happened on 20th July 1944?
The July Bomb Plot- Colonel Claus Stauffenberg attempts to assassinate Hitler
What happened on 18th October 1945?
Nuremberg trials began
What happened in 1950?
BFV set up
What happened May 1951?
Article131 stated ex-Nazis could be employed in Civil Service
What happened in 1952?
right wing Socialist Reich Party is banned
What happened 1954-1975?
Vietnam War which was subject for many in FRG
What happened in 1956?
BND set up
What happened in 1968?
Emergency Law passed which stated that police could track terrorists even if they were moving
What happened in January 1972?
Anti-Radical Decree issued which stated that anyone who applied for a state job could be vetted
What is Freikorps?
a group of ex-soldiers who lost their jobs after the TOV
What is the Reichsexekution?
Federal Gvt had authority to remove the state gvt if they felt they threatened the constitution
What was the Gestapo?
Secret police force who operated outside the police force
What was the SS?
Hitler’s personal bodyguards
used as political police and ran concentration camps
What was the Gau?
a small region of Germany
What was Blockwarts (Block Wardens)?
Leaders of individual apartment blocks who watched out for infringements of Nazi rule
Who were the Eidelweiss Pirates?
youth resistance group who formed in response to Hitler Youth
Who was Deitrich Bonhoffer?
co-founder of Confessional Church
spoke against Nazi interference with church- imprisoned from this
What was the White Rose group?
non-violent student resistance group
Who was Paster Martin Neimoller?
co-founder of Confessional Church
spoke against Nazi interference with church- imprisoned for this
What was ‘Year Zero’?
starting point in FRG where previous involvement with Nazi could be forgotten
What was APO (Extras Parliamentary Opposition)?
opposition group in FRG which was made up of left-wing intellectual students or young professionals
What was SDS?
Germany Socialist Student Union- a fraction group who broke away from SPD as they were not radical enough
What was the Red Army Faction (RAF)?
FRG terrorist group set up in 1970s
What was BFV and BND?
organisations who investigated people who they believed to be working outside Basic Law
What was Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9)?
Special operations unit to act against terrorists
set up in 1972
What is De-Nazification?
policy of removing Nazism from post-war Germany
