How effectively did the NAzis control Germany 1933-1945 (2)

Question 1

Legal measures after elections (3)

Answer 1

Enabling act
trade unions banned - forced to join german workers party
- ger one party state

Question 2

How did hitler maintain control through propaganda (6)

Answer 2

• rallies
• censorship
• Art (nazis only)
• newspapers (no anti nazi)
• cinema (pro nazi msg)
• radios (cheap so all cld own)

Question 3

How did hitler maintain control through fear (4)

Answer 3

• Gestapo, Arrest and CC with no trial
• police courts run by nazis
• ss highly trained and loyal to AH
• Concentration camps

Question 4

Where was fear most effective and why was propaganda important?

Answer 4

• in minority groups

- propaganda effective bc constantly instilling new ideas and nazi msg

Question 5

1936 olympics (9)

• what was it
• what happened
• how did it benefit germany
• • how was it a failure

Answer 5

• olympics held in Berlin
• great propaganda opp
• showcased aryan race
• 49 countries attended
• outsiders shocked by devotion to AH
• Failure of aryan superiorority (jesse owens)
• games = nazi qualities
• visitors not used to blatant propaganda

Question 6

Why as there little Opp to the nazi regime? (7)

Answer 6

• self interest
• fear
• no alternative
• fun
• success
• propaganda
• politcal opponents in CC camps

Question 7

Nazi and the churches (4)

Answer 7

• Ah signed concordat catholic church = keep control of schools stay out of politics
  2) AH Attempted to unite Protestant church to from ‘Reich church’
  3) priests led resistance - catholic bishop ‘Galen’ critiqued policy bout mentally ill- temp success
  4) protestant minister - Martin niemallor - critised = cc camp 1938-45

Question 8

Nuremburg laws = summary (4)

Answer 8

• laws passed sept 1935
• denied citezenship to non blood gets
• took away basic rights (jews)
• marriage bet ger and jew banned + sex

Question 9

date of kristallnacht - what caused it- how did the nazis use it to their advantage?

Answer 9

november 1938 - young jew killed her diplomat in paris- excuse for revenge

Question 10

What happened on Kristallnacht?

where there protests and if not why?

Answer 10

• SS took axes and smashed jew shops
• 91 jews murdered
• 100’s synagogues burned
• 20,000 taken to CC
• 1000’s left country
• no protests and those who did where murdered

Question 11

Final solution - date- what was it- who ran it - who was affected

Answer 11

jan 1924 wanna see conference

• himmiler in charge of systematic killings of jews
• slave labour camps - 6 mill jews killed
• old and sick killed immediately
• any minority taken to CC

Question 12

3 ways jews were affected by war?

Answer 12

• Ghettos
• mass murder
• resistance

Question 13

How were the jews affected by mass murder apart from CC

Answer 13

• 1941 Ger invaded Russia
• controlled 3 mill russian jews
• autumn 1941 = mass shootings

Question 14

what kind of resistance occurred for the jews?

Answer 14

• jews hidden

- 1945 warsaw ghetto held up against ss for 4 weeks