Key People

Question 1

Friedrich Ebert

Answer 1

The first president of Germany (1919-25)
Led the Weimar Republics formation after WW1, facing economic and political challenges

Question 2

Gustav Streseman

Answer 2

Chancellor (1923) and foreign minter (1923-29)
Stabilised the Weimar Republic, improved Germany’s international standing through diplomacy, Dawes Plan

Question 3

Paul Ven Hindenburg

Answer 3

President of Germany (1925-34)
Appointed Hitler Chancellor, essential to the Nazis rise to power

Question 4

Adolf Hitler

Answer 4

Nazi party leader, chancellor (1933), Führer (1934-35)
Dictator responsible for WW2 and the Holocaust

Question 5

Ernst Röhm

Answer 5

Leader of the SA (brown shirts)
Executed during the Night Of The Long Knives, seen as a threat by Hitler

Question 6

Joseph Goebbles

Answer 6

Minister of Propaganda
Controlled Nazi Propaganda, vital in maintaining Nazi ideology

Question 7

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 7

Head of the SS and Gestapo
Key figure in orchestrating the Holocaust

Question 8

Herman Göring

Answer 8

Commander of the Luftwaffe
Influential in Nazi military and economic policies, involved in the early Holocaust