Hitlers Consolidation of Power

Question 1

Hitlers Appointment

Answer 1

30th January 33

Question 2

Reichstag Fire

Answer 2

27th Feb 33

Question 3

The Day of Potsdam

Answer 3

21st March 33

Question 4

The Night of the Long Knives

Answer 4

30th June 1934

Question 5

Edelweiss Pirates

Answer 5

• Helped prisoners of war escape
• Distributed leaflets
• Killed Gestapo chief in 1944
• Smuggled Jews
• not successful, didn’t end regime nor effect Hitler youth
• November 1944 - arrested and some executed

Question 6

Swing Youth

Answer 6

• Wanted to listen to Jazz Music
• Met in bars, clubs, houses and played j.music
• 1941 - 300 arrested, some sent to conc camp

Question 7

White Rose

Answer 7

• handed out Nazi leaflets in Munich uni
• got caught distributing leaflets out of suitcase
• spread the anti-nazi messages
• 3 leaders executed via guillotine

Question 8

Beck Plot

Answer 8

• aimed to prevent Germany invading Czechoslovakia
• sent emissary to London to make england promise military action if germany did invade C.S
• Failed, Hitler was popular, news of his arrest would cause upraw
• Beck was removed from office

Question 9

The July Bomb Plot

Answer 9

• 20th July 1940
• Germany struggling in war
• Operation Valkyrie said SA would take over
• Stauffenberg planted bomb in suitcase by hitler, but someone moved it. Staffenburg left, and heard bomb go off, thought Hitler had died.
• 180-200 plotters were killed by piano wire

Question 10

Protestant - Niemler and Bonhoffer

Answer 10

• the church opposed Hitler as he was trying to replace Christianity
• Criticised hitler in poems and sermons
• successful as the message was read by anyone
• Bonhoeffer - sent to conc camp and died in 45

Question 11

Catholic Church

Answer 11

• Hitler did not follow the concordat, and after disputes of the terms of those with genetic diseases, he continued to harass Catholic priests
• In March 1937, the Pope spoke out condemning attacks on the Nazis
• As a result, the Nazis stepped down, but still closed down church schools

Question 12

Crosses in Schools

Answer 12

• crosses were prominent nationwide and Hitler wanted to replace them with Swastika, however, Hitler backed down. The church openly opposed the Nazi regime

Question 13

Galen

Answer 13

• disagreed with Hitler use of Euthanasia and campaigned strongly
• The Nazis couldn’t do anything as Galen was a prominent figure

Question 14

Georg Elser

Answer 14

• Elser wanted to stop the inevitable outbreak of war with Hitler in charge.
• He worked as a carpenter in a Beer Hall and made a hole in a pillar for a bomb
• Hitler arrived at the Beer Hall for a meeting, but had to leave early due to weather conditions, so he survived.
• Elser was sent to a conc camp

Question 15

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Answer 15

• The Jews opposed Hitler due to his racial policies against them
• In January 1943, Jews fired upon German troops as they rounded up another group of Gheto inhabitants for deportation
• took 4 months to deal with
• 56,000 Jews were captured, 7,000 shot and remainder were deported to killing centres

Question 16

Examples of Non-Conformity

Answer 16

• Many German citizens opposed the regime for different reasons.
• Nazi repression of creativity was enough to drive people away from the regime
• no-one knows the numbers who went against the regime
• some people would play music such as jazz or listen to foreign radio
• many sent to conc camp in 1933