key topic 3•nazi control & dictatorship, 1933-39

Question 1

Führer

Answer 1

German title meaning leader

Question 2

Night of the Long Knives

Answer 2

30 June 1934, when Hitler purged Röhm and the SA

Question 3

Oath of allegiance

Answer 3

A promise made by the German armed forces to be loyal to Hitler

Question 4

Reichstag

Answer 4

Germans state parliament

Question 5

SS

Answer 5

Schultzstaffel or ‘protection squad’. Originally Hitler’s bodyguards, they became the most powerful troops in the Third Reich, and wore distinctive black uniforms

Question 6

Trade unions

Answer 6

Organisations set up to protect and improve the rights of workers

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Concentration camps

Answer 7

Prisons for political prisoners and enemies if the state

Question 8

Concordat

Answer 8

An agreement between the Pope and a government concerning the legal status of the Catholic Church

Question 9

Gestapo

Answer 9

Geheimestaatspolizei: the secret police of the Nazi regime

Question 10

Reich Church

Answer 10

Official Protestant Church of the Nazi regime

Question 11

SD

Answer 11

Sicherheitsdienst: the intelligence agency of the Nazis

Question 12

Aryan

Answer 12

Nazi term for someone of supposedly ‘pure’ German stock

Question 13

Censorship

Answer 13

Controlling what is produced and suppressing anything considered against the state

Question 14

Third Reich

Answer 14

Nazi name for Germany. Means ‘Third Empire’

Question 15

Confessional Church

Answer 15

Protestant Church set up by Pastor Niemöller in the opposition to the Reich Church

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Edelweiss Pirates

Answer 16

A loosely organised youth group who rebelled against Nazi ideas

Question 17

Hitler Youth

Answer 17

Organisation set up for the young to convert them to Nazi ideals

Question 18

Martyr

Answer 18

A person who is persecuted and/or killed because of their religious or other beliefs

Question 19

Swing Youth

Answer 19

Young people who loved swing music and challenged Nazi views about the young

Question 20

Martin Niemöller

Answer 20

Served in the German navy as a U-boat commander during the First World War. In 1929 became a pastor in the Protestant Church and a supporter of Hitler. Began to criticise Hitler when, from 1937, members of the Protestant Church were arrested. Survived seven years in a concentration camp before being released in 1945