Living Under Nazi Rule

Question 1

What period does ‘Living Under Nazi Rule’ cover?

Answer 1

1933-1945

Question 2

What event occurred on 22/2 1933 that involved a Dutch communist?

Answer 2

Reichstag Fire

Question 3

What law was passed in March 1933 that allowed the Nazis to consolidate power?

Answer 3

‘Enabling Law’

Question 4

What significant event happened on 30/6 1934?

Answer 4

‘Night of the Long Knives’

Question 5

What was the first concentration camp established by the Nazis?

Answer 5

Dachau

Question 6

What term represents the Nazi ideology of ‘living space’?

Answer 6

Lebensraum

Question 7

What were the two phases of the Final Solution?

Answer 7

• Einsatzgruppen
• Extermination camps

Question 8

What was the purpose of the ‘German Labour Front’ (DAF)?

Answer 8

To control workers

Question 9

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 9

Laws that revoked citizenship for Jews and banned mixed marriages

Question 10

What is the meaning of ‘arbeit macht frei’?

Answer 10

‘work sets you free’

Question 11

What did the term ‘Fuhrer’ refer to in Nazi Germany?

Answer 11

Leader or supreme leader

Question 12

What was the role of the Gestapo?

Answer 12

Secret police to investigate and arrest political enemies

Question 13

What was Kristallnacht?

Answer 13

Night of broken glass - 10/11/38

Question 14

What was the goal of the Hitler Youth?

Answer 14

To educate youth in the spirit of National Socialism

Question 15

Fill in the blank: The Nazi plan to exterminate all European Jews during WWII is called the _______.

Answer 15

Final Solution

Question 16

What was the Concordat with the Catholic Church?

Answer 16

An agreement with the Catholic Church to limit conflicts

Question 17

What was the role of Albert Speer during the Nazi regime?

Answer 17

Minister of Armaments

Question 18

What is meant by the term ‘Gleichschaltung’?

Answer 18

Coordination of society with Nazi ideas

Question 19

Who was Reinhard Heydrich?

Answer 19

Head of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and key figure in the Holocaust

Question 20

What was ‘Strength through Joy’ (KDF)?

Answer 20

A program to organize workers’ leisure time

Question 21

What did the term ‘Volkssturm’ refer to?

Answer 21

A national militia formed towards the end of WWII

Question 22

Who were the Edelweiss Pirates?

Answer 22

Groups opposing the Nazis, often youth resistance groups

Question 23

What was the impact of the Second World War on German people?

Answer 23

Food shortages and introduction of rationing

Question 24

Who was Cardinal Galen?

Answer 24

Bishop of Munster who opposed Nazi euthanasia campaigns

Question 25

What was the significance of the Army Bomb Plot?

Answer 25

Failed assassination attempt on Hitler on 6th July 1944

Question 26

What does the slogan ‘ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer’ mean?

Answer 26

‘one People, one Empire, one Leader’

Question 27

Who was Joseph Goebbels?

Answer 27

Nazi propaganda chief

Question 28

What did the term ‘Uber/untermenschen’ signify?

Answer 28

‘super-humans’ and ‘sub-humans’ in Nazi ideology

Question 29

What were extermination camps built for?

Answer 29

To murder Jews in the Final Solution

Question 30

What was the role of Hermann Goering?

Answer 30

Head of the Luftwaffe and key Nazi leader

Question 31

What did the term ‘kinder, kuche, kirche’ refer to?

Answer 31

‘children, kitchen, church’ - Nazi ideology on women’s roles

Question 32

Who was Sophie Scholl?

Answer 32

Leader of the White Rose resistance group

Question 33

What does the term ‘Total War’ refer to?

Answer 33

Unrestricted warfare where normal rules do not apply

Question 34

When was the Reichstag fire

Answer 34

22nf February 1933