Key Germany Dates

Question 1

What happend in May 1933?

Answer 1

Trade Unions were banned. Offices were broken into and officials arrested.

Question 2

What happend in May - July 1933?

Answer 2

Political Parties were banned. Communist and Social Democratic newspapers were also destroyed.

Question 3

What happend by 1994?

Answer 3

Local government had been organised to make sure that Nazi governors ran every region of Germany.

Question 4

What happend on the 30th June 1934?

Answer 4

The Night of the Long Knives. Hitler heard that Rohm, the leader of the SA, was planning to rival his leadership - so he killed him and other SA members.

Question 5

What happend on the 1st July, 1934?

Answer 5

Rohm was killed in his prison cell after refusing to kill himself.

Question 6

The Nuremberg Rally in 1934?

Answer 6

Used to promote Nazi values. A “hollywood” style film was made of it called “The Triumph of the Will”

Question 7

The Berlin Olympics in 1936

Answer 7

All events and the stadium was designed to show Nazi efficiency. The stadium was deliberately designed to look like a Roman coliseum.

Question 8

The treaty of versailles

Answer 8

The treaty of versailles was signed after ww1 by the new democratic goverment (in germany).