life in nazi germany: opposition to the nazis- political left & the church.

Question 1

political left successes: who was this represented by?

Answer 1

social democrats.

Question 2

political left successes: who were the social democrats?

Answer 2

germanys largest non nazi political group, largest source of resistance.

Question 3

political left successes: what were the social democrats the only party to do and when?

Answer 3

won more than 100 seats at the reichstag election (beginning in 1919.)

Question 4

political left successes: when were the social democrats made illegal, what was taken off them and what were they forced to do?

Answer 4

may 1933.
robbed of its money and forced to break up.

Question 5

political left successes: where did the social democrats leadership move to, what did they do and what was their new name?

Answer 5

prague.
continued to work in exile.
called themselves sopade.

Question 6

political left successes: those members of the social democrats who stayed in germany what did they do and what was their new name?

Answer 6

went ‘underground’
formed resistance group.
called themselves red strike troops.

Question 7

political left successes: by late 1933 red strike troops how many members did they have?

Answer 7

3000.

Question 8

political left successes: what did the red strike troops produce, how often and what did it highlight?

Answer 8

fortnightle newspapers.
nazi abuse of power and calling on workers uprising to otherthrow nazis.

Question 9

political left successes: when were the red strike troops activities found, by who and what were the consequences?

Answer 9

mid 1934.
gestapo.
arrested the leaders.

Question 10

political left successes: who were the gestapo?

Answer 10

secret police.

Question 11

political left successes: what and when was the third group created from the social democrats and why did it have little impact?

Answer 11

new beginnings.
operated through 1930.
continous pressure from gestapo- very little impact.

Question 12

political left successes: who was this demonstrated by?

Answer 12

communists.

Question 13

political left: where did the communist party come from?

Answer 13

german communist party (KPD.)

Question 14

political left: before the nazis rise to power what were the KPD?

Answer 14

largest communist party outside of russia.

Question 15

political left: how many members did the KPD have?

Answer 15

350,000.

Question 16

political left: what were the KPD balmed for?

Answer 16

reichstag fire.

Question 17

political left: what happend after the KPD were blamed for the recihstag fire?

Answer 17

party offices raided, equipment destroyed, property taken.
thousands of members arrested, taken before nazi court or put into concentration camps.

Question 18

political left: even after lots of KPD members were arrested how many were able to continue with underground resistance?

Answer 18

30,000.

Question 19

political left: what was the KPD official newspapers called and were they still produced?

Answer 19

the red flag.
yes.

Question 20

political left: what did the KPD publsih from underground, when and how many?

Answer 20

anti-nazi leaflets and pamphlets.
1933 and 1935.
millions.

Question 21

political left: what did the KPD leaflets inlighten people about and where could be found?

Answer 21

poor treatment of german workers by nazis.
found their many factories, workplaces and beer halls.

Question 22

opposition from the church: how many catholics and protestants were there in germany?

Answer 22

22 million. 40 million.

Question 23

opposition from the church: why could there be opposition seen from the church?

Answer 23

church had a belief in love and forgivness.

Question 24

opposition from the church: what agreement did hitler make with the pope?

Answer 24

nazis would leave the church if the church stayed out of politics.

Question 25

opposition from the church: what church did hitler make and what did it look like?

Answer 25

protestant reich church.
had to swear an oath to become part of it.
churches had swastikas and mein kampf in them.

Question 26

opposition from the church: catholic successes: who was the most prominent critic of the nazis?

Answer 26

martin riemoller.

Question 27

opposition from the church: catholic successes: what did martin riemoller do?

Answer 27

refused to join reich church, founded an alternative non nazi confessional church.

Question 28

opposition from the church: catholic successes: by 1934 how many people had joined martin riemoller’ church in comparision to the reich church?

Answer 28

6000 pasters joined compaired to the 2000.

Question 29

opposition from the church: catholic successes: what did remoller and confesional church preach?

Answer 29

against nazi radical policy.

Question 30

opposition from the church: catholic successes: in 1937 what did paul schneider do?

Answer 30

banned parishioners who were nazis party members from attending his church servcies.

Question 31

opposition from the church: catholic successes: in 1937 what did pope puis the 11th XI do?

Answer 31

wrote a letter.

Question 32

opposition from the church: catholic successes: what did pope puis XI letter get read to, when, what did it say and what was it called?

Answer 32

smuggled into germany and read out in all catholic churches on plam sunday.
condemed nazi beliefs and methods.
with burning anxiety.

Question 33

opposition from the church: catholic successes: in 1934 whose sermons began to critise nazi regeme over his radical policys?

Answer 33

cardinal galen.

Question 34

opposition from the church: catholic successes: why could cardinal galen couldn’ be arrested?

Answer 34

too high profile, continued to provide resistance.

Question 35

opposition from the church: catholic successes: why were jehovahs witnesses unwilling to comply with nazi state?

Answer 35

rule of faith.

Question 36

opposition from the church: catholic successes: what did jehovahs witnesses refusing to do?

Answer 36

give hitler salute.
following beliefs.
compulsary military service.

Question 37

opposition from the church: catholic successes: what did jehovahs witnesses do inside and outside of germany?

Answer 37

began writing anti-nazi leaflets.