How The Nazis Controlled Germany Flashcards

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How did the nazis use political control?

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With a totalitarian dictatorship

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What were the 4 ways that Nazis controlled power?

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Political control
Lack of control
Violent control
Psychological control

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What is a totalitarian dictatorship?

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Government by a small unelected minority, with one man having absolute power

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In order to control normal people, what did the nazis suspend?

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Civil liberties

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When was the enabling act?

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23 March 1933

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What did the decree of 28 feb 1933 do?

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Gave hitler emergency powers

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What was the major criticism of Weimar Republc in their last 2 years?

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They didn’t have the interest of the people at hearts

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How many votes were for the enabling act?

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444

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How many votes were against the enabling act?

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94

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What does Gleichschaltung mean?

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Coordination of all state institutions under nazi control

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When had hitler banned all other political parties?

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July 1933

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After the left wing parties were broken up, what needed to be dealt with?

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Trade unions

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What was the DAF?

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German labour front

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When was the DAF set up?

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May 1933

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What did the DAF do with trade unions?

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It brought then all into their organisation

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15
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Who was Ernst Rohm

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Leader of SA

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How did Rohm feel about nazi Germany?

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He didn’t like it

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How did hitler deal with Rohm?

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Plans were made to get rid of him, and the SA

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What happened on night of the long knives?

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Leading SA men and other Nazi opponents were murdered

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Who planned Night Of The Long Knives?

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Himmler and Goering

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What is a purge?

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Getting rid of unwanted people, usually by murdering them

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What was the result of the NOTLK?

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SA became a part of SS

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22
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Who ruled the SS?

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Himmler

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What does führer mean?

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Leader

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24
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When was Himmler made head of police and SS?

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1936

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25
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What was the euthanasia programme?

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People with hereditary illnesses were killed

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26
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What was final solution?

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Plan to kill all the Jews in Europe

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What was the lebensborn programme?

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Single German women would book themselves into hotels, to be made pregnant by SS men

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What was the Waffen SS?

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A second army that fought alongside the army

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29
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When was the waffen SS founded?

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November 1940

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30
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What was the Gestapo?

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Secret police

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31
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What was the SD?

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The SS’ security service

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32
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How many agents did the Gestapo have?

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Up to 30,000

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33
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What did the Gestapo rely on?

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Informants

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What were the Gestapo most successful in?

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Breaking up dangerous resistance groups and rounding up those that took part in the July bomb plot

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What was the July bomb plot?

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The Kreisau circle planted a bomb in hitlers office. It killed several nazi party leaders but no Hitler

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What were the Gauleiters of Poland told to do to their areas?

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‘Germanise’ them, no questions asked

37
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How was hitler and inactive dictator?

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Nazi Germany was over governed, so Hitler could just take a step back

38
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How did Hitler create a ‘people’s community’

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Propaganda

39
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How did newspapers have propaganda?

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They were filled with horrible crimes of Jews, which weren’t actually committed

40
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How was propaganda in films?

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Good Germans would often overcome evil Jews in films

41
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Did the economy improve in the 1930s?

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Yes

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What is a cult of personality?

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A movement to portray the leader as all powerful

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What was the Führer principle?

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The idea that the leader knows best

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How did the personality of Hitler become a part if everyday life?

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The greeting changed from ‘hello’ to ‘Heil Hitler’

45
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Who was the head of the ministry of propaganda?

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Joseph Goebbels

46
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What happened, in terms of views of hitler, when things went wrong in Germany?

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Other nazis were blamed

47
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What happened, in terms of views of Hitler, when things went well in Germany?

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Hitler took credit

48
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What was the Munich Agreement?

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An agreement made by the UK, France, Italy and Germany. It gave Nazi Germany the parts of Czechoslovakia that Hitler claimed rightfully belonged to Germany

49
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Why did poverty begin to get better in 1933?

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The Great Depression was coming to an end

50
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Why would a manual worker like the nazis?

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Under Weimar, workers were at a large risk of losing their jobs. Under nazis, they had secure jobs

51
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Why would a shopkeeper tolerate nazis?

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Elimination of Jewish businesses meant less competition

52
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Why would a soldier tolerate the nazis?

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Hitler built up the armed forces and made them more important. In 1934, he prevented the SA taking place of the army

53
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Why would an industrialist put up with nazis?

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Trade unions were banned, and nazis needed many large contracts for re-armament

54
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Why would a civil servant tolerate nazis?

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They wanted to keep their jobs, and if they impressed the regime, they may get promotions

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Why may farmers tolerate nazis?

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The nazis passed laws to protect farmers with small farms, so the farms would be under the ownership of whoever farmed the land

56
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How did Hitler act about Christianity?

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He publicly stated that it was the foundation of the German state

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Why would banning religion be a bad idea for nazis?

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If people had a choice between their nation or their religion, they would choose religion

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How did Hitler control religion?

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He nationalised all the churches and took them under nazi control

59
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When was the Reich church launched?

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1933

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What were the 3 categories of those who opposed the Nazi state?

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Resistance
Opposition
Non conformism

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Who were the Edelweiss Pirates?

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Anti nazi group who visibly opposed the Nazi smartness by wearing scruffy clothes and having long hair

62
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When did membership of Nazi youth organisations become law?

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1939

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What are asocials?

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People who belong outside normal society

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By nazis, what were Slavs in Eastern Europe seen as?

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Inferior humans

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By Nazis, what were Jews and blacks seen as?

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Sub humans

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What and when was the Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service?

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April 1933, and it means that Jews could no longer work in the civil service

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What and when were the Nuremberg laws?

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September 1935, marriages between aryans and Jews were illegal, Aryans had to prove they were ‘pure’ before they could marry, and Jews were deprived of their German citizenship

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What and when were the Laws on the Jewish Professions?

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Jewish lawyers, doctors and dentists were forbidden to have Aryan clients
June 1938

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What and when were the Laws on Jewish Identification?

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October 1938

All Jews had to add ‘Israel’ or ‘Sarah’ to their names, and have a large red J in their passports

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What and when was the Decree on The Economic Life of Jews?

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Jews were forbidden from shops, businesses, schools, universities and leisure facilities

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Who did the nazis sterilise?

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Alcoholics, homosexuals, drug addicts, those with blindness, deafness and hereditary diseases

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Who was Bishop Galen?

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A bishop who spoke out against the euthanasia programme

73
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Why wasn’t Bishop Galen persecuted?

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He was a religious figure, it would have caused trouble

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How many people were sterilised?

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350,000

75
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What is a pogrom?

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A large scale act of violence

76
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When was Kristallnacht?

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9-10 November 1938

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What was the official excuse for Kristallnacht?

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A German diplomat was murdered by a French Jew in Paris

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What happened in kristallacht?

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A nationwide attack on Jewish people and property

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How did the police act about Kristallnacht?

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They didn’t intervene, unless Germans were in danger

80
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How many synagogues were destroyed in Kristallnacht?

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500

81
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How many shops were destroyed in Kristallnacht?

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1000

82
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How many Jews were arrested in kristallnacht?

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22,000

83
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How did Jews did in Kristallnacht?

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Murder and suicide

84
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How was kristallnacht a turning point in nazi treatment of Jews?

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It ended the nervousness that some nazi leaders had about radical policies to Jews