life in nazi germany: achieving total power- nigth of the long knives.

Question 1

differences between SA and SS: what were the ss known as?

Answer 1

strum abteilung, storm troopers, brown shirts.

Question 2

differences between SA and SS: what was the SS’s role?

Answer 2

mitalia group used in early years of nazi party to disrupt the meetings of other parties and intimidate opponents.

Question 3

differences between SA and SS: what were the SA known as?

Answer 3

schultz-staffel, black shirts.

Question 4

differences between SA and SS: what was the SA’s role?

Answer 4

established originally to oversee hitlers personal protection. later had wider responsibilities overseeing concentration camps and enforcing a nazi police state.

Question 5

purging the SA: what would happen if SA weren’t under control?

Answer 5

hitler may loose support from hindenburg and powerful conservatives.

Question 6

purging the SA: what were the causing and how were they acting?

Answer 6

some germans to turn against the nazis and some were ebcoming lawless.

Question 7

purging the SA: what meant that they became harder to control?

Answer 7

membership increased.

Question 8

purging the SA: what were the leaders demanding and why?

Answer 8

rewards for their loyal service.
angry that new party members were recieving more recognition than they were.

Question 9

purging the SA: what were they good at breaking up?

Answer 9

opponents political meetings.

Question 10

purging the SA: what weren’t they?

Answer 10

professional army.

Question 11

purging the SA: what would happen if hitler supported the army over the SA?

Answer 11

gain support of large buisnesses.

Question 12

purging the SA: who distrusted and feared ernst rohm?

Answer 12

generals and leading nazis.

Question 13

purging the SA: how was ernst rohm considerd to hitler?

Answer 13

originally a friend but then as a potential rival.

Question 14

purging the SA: what was a charactersitic of rohm which contridicted hitlers practises?

Answer 14

he was a homosexual.

Question 15

purging the SA: what did rohm want to happen to the SA and the army?

Answer 15

merge.

Question 16

purging the SA: how was the german army?

Answer 16

well organised, trained and possesssed weapons necessary to wage a large scale war.

Question 17

night of the long knives: how many potentital threats remained by 1984 to hitlers power?

Answer 17

2.

Question 18

night of the long knives: who were hitlers first of the two threats?

Answer 18

non- nazi conservatives.

Question 19

night of the long knives: why were non-nazi conservaties 1 of hitlers 2 remaining threats?

Answer 19

rumours circulated that their leader vice chancellor franz von papen planned to take hitlers place.

Question 20

night of the long knives: how did the non-nazi conservatives come into power?

Answer 20

been given places in the cabinet when hitler ebcame chancellor.

Question 21

night of the long knives: who were hitlers second threat to his power?

Answer 21

his own stormtroopers.

Question 22

night of the long knives: by 1934 how had the stats of people in the SA changed?

Answer 22

6 times more men as the start of 1933, which now was nearly 3 million.

Question 23

night of the long knives: who was the leader of the SA and why was he a significant threat?

Answer 23

ernst rohm. openly declared that he wanted SA to take over the army.

Question 24

night of the long knives: how was the german army better than the SA?

Answer 24

had 100,000 men- dwarfed SA.
better equipment and easier to control.

Question 25

night of the long knives: due to hitler rejecting plans for army and SA to merge how did ernst’s demener change but what was there no evidence for?

Answer 25

began openly criticing hitler, refered to him as the ‘ridiculous corprol’ in front of his men.
no evidence he was actively plotting hitlers downfall.

Question 26

night of the long knives: when did hitler decide to deal with the 2 threats?

Answer 26

june 1934.

Question 27

night of the long knives: to resolve the threats what did hitler task thew SS with doing, what lists did they draw up and who did it include?

Answer 27

begin manufactering evidence that rohm was planning a nationwide uprising.
politically unreliable people- rohm, SA leaders, political rivals.

Question 28

night of the long knives: when did SS go into action against the carefully identified enermies?

Answer 28

30 june.

Question 29

night of the long knives: to carry out the NOTLK what were the SA leaders instructed to do?

Answer 29

go to a hotel outsaide munich for a meeting that was never going to happen.

Question 30

night of the long knives: to carry out the NOTLK who went to arrest the participants and what were there punishments?

Answer 30

SS officers, hitler, goebbels and others. entered the bulding and arrested SA leaders and sent them to prision. amny of them were killed.

Question 31

night of the long knives: what option was rohm given, what did he do with it and what was done in response?

Answer 31

option to kill himself.
refused.
2 days after arrest he was brutally murderd by 2 SS officers.

Question 32

night of the long knives: who was in charge of the operation?

Answer 32

goring.

Question 33

night of the long knives: who escaped arrest and why?

Answer 33

von papen. too pubicaly prominant.

Question 34

night of the long knives: what was von papens punishment?

Answer 34

after a meeting with hitler he decided to resign.

Question 35

night of the long knives: what happend to von papens secutary and leading supporters?

Answer 35

arrested.

Question 36

night of the long knives: what did hitler use this as excuse to do?

Answer 36

rid older enermies.

Question 37

night of the long knives: what old enermies did hitler decide to get rid of?

Answer 37

von schieicher (previous chancellor), von kahr (thwarted attempt to take power in 1923) and erich klausener (prominernt catholic) killed.

Question 38

night of the long knives: how many people were killed and what memebrs were killed?

Answer 38

85 people.
12 were prominent reichstag deputies murderd.

Question 39

end of democracy: when did president hindenburg die?

Answer 39

august 2 1934.

Question 40

end of democracy: what decision was made about political roles just hours after hindenburgs death?

Answer 40

role of president would be merged with chancellor.

Question 41

end of democracy: within the same day of hindenburgs death what were the soldiers and officers of the army doing?

Answer 41

taking oaths of alliance to hitler as their new commander-in-chief.

Question 42

end of democracy: what was hitlers new role on the 19 august and how?

Answer 42

fuhrer through vote.

Question 43

end of democracy: how did all of these consolidate hitlers power?

Answer 43

final act in the consolidation of his power.
he ahd asserted his authrotiy over his own party and had become fuhrer and commander-in-chief in the armed forces.