Lecture

Question 1

Martin Bormann

Answer 1

Typical Nazi, middle-class, chief of staff under Rudolph’s. Nothing more then deputy of party chancellor. Trusted no one, personal connection to Hitler and use that personal connection to dominate the parties apparatus and he had no friends

Question 2

How the justice system operated under the anti-constitutional regime

Answer 2

A constitution is supposed to distribute power, protects rights but it didn’t do this
The emperor was not above the law, nazis destroyed the law, civil and commercial codes stay the same, criminal codes changed

Question 3

Retro active

Answer 3

If you did something one month ago, and the law went into effect today, you would be punished

Question 4

Nazi law

Answer 4

Punish people for not breaking laws. Divided people into classifications (asocial elements, ect)

Question 5

Nazi ideology

Answer 5

Protect the nation from an individual not vice versa

Question 6

Special court

Answer 6

Created March 1933 after the fire decree. Focus on people taking advantage on war front. Three judges. No appeal. Sentences automatically carried out.

Question 7

People’s Court

Answer 7

Cases of treason. Regular court, no habeas corpus. If you are arrested, you’re charged with a crime.

Question 8

Why did the SS look down on the gestappo

Answer 8

They didn’t obey the rules and they were unprofessional

Question 9

Who are the gypsies that were considered racial enemies

Answer 9

Sinti and Roma

Question 10

What were the two occupations that were left for the Jews

Answer 10

Selling and money lending. They went to village to village

Question 11

Boycott of Jewish business

Answer 11

Lasted one day, because stopping export can’t hurt German economy. Many Germans ignored the boycott

Question 12

Battle for jobs

Answer 12

Unemployment was a problem. Countryside work. Fixing canal put people back in work.

Question 13

Totalitarianism

Answer 13

The government cares about what you do in your home and in public

Question 14

Authoritarianism

Answer 14

They don’t care about what you do at home but they do care about what you do in public

Question 15

Hitler’s ideal world

Answer 15

1. Cultural creators: those who created everything good in the world
2. Cultural bearers: didn’t create culture, but carried it forth (Slavs)
3. Cultural destroyers: minorities he wanted eliminated

Question 16

May 1933

Answer 16

Reichstag dissolved political parties done besides Nazi.

Question 17

Autarky

Answer 17

Economic self -sufficience. Rely on exports. Rubber wasn’t produced in Germany but it was very important so they made it synthetically.

Question 18

Labor front

Answer 18

Huge organization to steer labor how they wanted it. Used propaganda. Blue-collar and white-collar were equally respected through the propaganda. Comradeship

Question 19

I.G Farben’s Four year plan

Answer 19

Germany was already coming out of the depression before this plan

Question 20

What is Heinrich himmlers title

Answer 20

SS, chief of German police, within the Reich’s ministry of the interior

Question 21

Why was the holocaust kept a secret

Answer 21

Because the German public would want to see if their Jew. It’s less personal.

Question 22

Which law had more protest: the Nuremberg laws or the Nazi swastika laws

Answer 22

Notsi swastika

Question 23

1936 Berlin Olympics

Answer 23

Swiss Nazi party. Anti-Semitism would look bad so they pretended it didn’t happen. The Olympics were huge and propaganda. Germany won most medals

Question 24

Dachau concentration camp

Answer 24

People died of disease. It was set up as prison not to murder people

Question 25

Auchwitz concentration camp

Answer 25

Largest concentration camp in the former Poland that actually gas people to death