Nazi control

Question 1

Northeim control [7]

Answer 1

1) took over council by intimidation
2) house searches
3) ordered coordination of organisations
4) boycotts of jewish businesses
5) ended unemployment
6) propaganda
7) northeimers rushed to join Party

Question 2

Taking over council by intimidation [5]

Answer 2

1) police arrested opposition councillor
2) SA officers stationed around room
3) SA refused to let opposition speak
4) opposition walked out in protest, SA spat on them
5) end of democracy in Northeim

Question 3

House searches in Northeim [4]

Answer 3

1) supposedly looking for illegal weapons
2) ransacked homes, arrested 22 people
3) 7 to conc camps
4) Northeimers fear Nazis due to violence

Question 4

How many arrested during house searches in Northeim?

Answer 4

22

Question 5

How many to conc campps after house searches in Northeim?

Answer 5

7

Question 6

Ordered coordination of all organisations [4]

Answer 6

1) since Nazis majority in national government, argued should have majority in local bodies
2) 4 sports clubs into 1
3) choirs into Nazi-led mixed choral singing club of 1933
4) allowed Nazis to watch ordinary people

Question 7

Boycotts of Jewish businesses [2]

Answer 7

1) newspapers told not to shop at Jewish businesses
2) SA outside jew shops to turn people away

Question 8

Ended unemployment in Northeim [4]

Answer 8

1) june 1933 500 unemployed, sep 1933 0 unemployed
2) repair roads and clear woods
3) socialists fired and jobs given to nazis
4) unemployed socialists offered physically demanding work only if stayed out of politics

Question 9

Propaganda in Northeim [3]

Answer 9

1) burned weimar flag
2) burned unacceptable books
3) speeches and parades

Question 10

Northeimers rushing to join Nazi Party [2]

Answer 10

1) town of 10000, 1200 members by May 1933
2) joined to keep safe and keep jobs

Question 11

Gestapo [4]

Answer 11

1) secret state police, led by reinhard Heydrich
2) could arrest people and send to conc camps w/o trial
3) had informers to listen to what people were saying
4) feared gestapo as did not know who members were

Question 12

SS [4]

Answer 12

1) 1 mil members by 1944, led by Heinrich Himmler
2) were Aryans and loyal to Hitler
3) crushed opposition and carried out Nazi racial policies
4) set up own courts, 200000 sent to conc camps

Question 13

SD [3]

Answer 13

1) SS internal security service
2) investigate disloyalty within army
3) investigate politically senstive cases

Question 14

Death Head’s units [2]

Answer 14

1) responsible for conc camps
2) transportation and muder of jews

Question 15

Waffen-SS [1]

Answer 15

armoured regiments that fought alongside army

Question 16

Conc camps [5]

Answer 16

1) set up when Hitler came to power in 1933
2) sent people who criticised Nazis
3) run by Death Heads
4) prisoners do hard labour, limited food, harsh discipline, beatings, random executions
5) aimed to correct opponents

Question 17

Police and courts [7]

Answer 17

1) top jobs given to high ranking Nazis
2) political snooping
3) ignored crimes by Nazi agents
4) Nazis controlled magistrates, judges and courts
5) lawyers had to be member of nazis lawyers association
6) opponents rarely received fair trial
7) judges swear oath of loyalty

Question 18

Nuremberg rallies [5]

Answer 18

1) bands, marches, flying displays, Hitler’s speeches
2) colour and excitement
3) gave people sense of belonging
4) showed people power of state
5) organised to emphasize order

Question 19

Control of media and culture [7]

Answer 19

books art newspapers cinema music radio posters

Question 20

Control of books [3]

Answer 20

1) no books published w/o goebbles perm
2) mein kampf best seller
3) 1933 burned unacceptable books

Question 21

Control of art [3]

Answer 21

1) no art published w/o goebbles permission
2) only nazi approved art
3) had to be of heroic looking aryans, military figures or images of ideal aryan family

Question 22

Control of newspapers [3]

Answer 22

1) jewish and anti nazi newspapers closed down
2) not allowed to prin anti nazi articles
3) became boring, circulation fell by 10%

Question 23

Control of cinema [3]

Answer 23

1) all films had to carry pro-nazi message
2) newsreels before film showed greatness of Hitler
3) goebbles censored all foreign films

Question 24

Control of Music [1]

Answer 24

banned jazz music bc was ‘black’ music

Question 25

Control of radio [6]

Answer 25

1) broadcast nazi msg
2) radios cheap so all could buy
3) stations controlled
4) BBC listening punishable by death
5) loudspeakers in streets and bars if people did not have one
6) Hitler’s speeches repeated on radio

Question 26

Control of posters [1]

Answer 26

HItler and Nazi success

Question 27

1936 olympics [8]

Answer 27

1) showcase for doctrine that Aryan race superior
2) brand new stadium holding 100000
3) modern lighting
4) television cams for the 1st time
5) most sophisticated german photo-electronic timing device
6) largest stopclock ever built
7) show Germany modern civilised and successful
8) germany top of medal table

Question 28

Jesse owens [3]

Answer 28

1) black athlete, star of olympics
2) 4 gold, broke 11 world records
3) success called aryan supremacy into question

Question 29

Nazis and Churches [5]

Answer 29

1) Concordat in 1933
2) Hitler tried to combine protestant churches into official reich church
3) Reich church headed by bishop ludwig muller
4) Hitler encouraged alternate religion: pagan German Faith movement
5) churchgoers either supported/did little to oppose Nazis

Question 30

Catholic Bishop Galen [4]

Answer 30

1) criticised Nazis
2) 1941 protest against euthanasia of disabled
3) had strong support
4) Nazis did not silence as risky, didnt want trouble during war

Question 31

Pastor Martin Niemoller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Answer 31

1) formed alternative protestant church to reich church
2) Niemoller, 1938-45 conc camp
3) Bonhoeffer preached against Nazis and Gestopo stopped him in 1937

Question 32

Persecution of minorities [4]

Answer 32

1) organisations for gays and lesbians shut down
2) books by gay authors banned
3) 100 000 gays arrested, 50000 to prison, 5000-10000 to conc campms
4) forced to wear pink triangle to mark them out in camps

Question 33

Euthanasia programme [3]

Answer 33

1) 1939, against mentally handicapped
2) 5000 babies and children killed by injection/starvation
3) 72000 mentally ill gassed, mentally ill sterilised

Question 34

how many gypsies killed 1939

Answer 34

5/6

Question 35

Why are jews hated [4]

Answer 35

1) blamed for death of jesus
2) tended to be well educated, held good jobs
3) blamed for ww1 defeat
4) offended Hitler’s idea of Aryan supremancy

Question 36

Persecution of Jews [6]

Answer 36

1) banned from civil service and public services
2) SA and SS organised boycotts of Jewish shops
3) 1935 Nuremberg Laws took away Jews’ german citizenship
4) forbidden to marry or have sex with Aryans
5) propaganda w/ anti Jewish msgs
6) discrimination

Question 37

When were Nuremberg Laws and what were they

Answer 37

1935
took away jews german citizenship

Question 38

Kristallnacht date and why it happened

Answer 38

Nov 1938, young jew killed german diplomat in paris

Question 39

Kristallnacht purpose and events and aftermath [3]

Answer 39

to get revenge on jews
ss troops dressed in plain clothes w/ pickaxes smashed jewish shops
press reported as reaction of ordinary germans, many did not believe

Question 40

Kristallnacht casualties and stats [4]

Answer 40

91 jews murdered
hundreds of synagogues burned
20000 jews to conc camps
thousands left country

Question 41

Political opposition [4]

Answer 41

1) socialists still met secretly, small scale activities
2) 1930s sabotage factories, railways and army stores
3) Gestapo broke up 1000 meetings 1936
4) seized 1.6 million anti nazi leaflets 1936

Question 42

Social opposition [5]

Answer 42

1) people didnt want to attend rallies
2) Nazis force people to listen radio
3) complaining in bars, refuse to heil hitler
4) hang own flags in church
5) help jews escape germany

Question 43

opposition from youth [5]

Answer 43

swing youth
edelweiss pirates
meuten
white rose
upper class

Question 44

Swing movement [5]

Answer 44

1) started in Hamberg 1939
2) challenge to Hitler’s youth movement
3) middle class teens
4) parties, eng, american and swing jazz music
5) talked abt and enjoyed sex

Question 44

Meuten [3]

Answer 44

1) working class teen and young adults
2) sympathised w/ socialist ideology
3) freq attacked by nazis

Question 45

Edelweiss pirates [7]

Answer 45

1) painted anti nazi slogans
2) working class teens
3) sheltered deserters
4) sang songs, lyrics mocked germany
5) attacked hitler youth
6) 1944 cologne killed gestapo chief, 12 hanged
7) Dec 1942, 28 groups broken up by gestapo

Question 46

The White rose [3]

Answer 46

1) published anti nazi leaflets
2) students of munich uni
3) were executed in 1943

Question 47

Upper class [4]

Answer 47

1) conservative military officers and diplomats
2) attempted assissination of Hitler on July 20th 1944
3) Colonel Stauffenberg left bomb in breifcase near Hitler
$) most executed

Question 48

When was attempted assassination of Hitler?

Answer 48

July 20th 1934