Nazi control Flashcards
Northeim control [7]
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
Taking over council by intimidation [5]
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
House searches in Northeim [4]
1) supposedly looking for illegal weapons
2) ransacked homes, arrested 22 people
3) 7 to conc camps
4) Northeimers fear Nazis due to violence
How many arrested during house searches in Northeim?
22
How many to conc campps after house searches in Northeim?
7
Ordered coordination of all organisations [4]
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
Boycotts of Jewish businesses [2]
1) newspapers told not to shop at Jewish businesses
2) SA outside jew shops to turn people away
Ended unemployment in Northeim [4]
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
Propaganda in Northeim [3]
1) burned weimar flag
2) burned unacceptable books
3) speeches and parades
Northeimers rushing to join Nazi Party [2]
1) town of 10000, 1200 members by May 1933
2) joined to keep safe and keep jobs
Gestapo [4]
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
SS [4]
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
SD [3]
1) SS internal security service
2) investigate disloyalty within army
3) investigate politically senstive cases
Death Head’s units [2]
1) responsible for conc camps
2) transportation and muder of jews
Waffen-SS [1]
armoured regiments that fought alongside army
Conc camps [5]
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
Police and courts [7]
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
Nuremberg rallies [5]
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
Control of media and culture [7]
books art newspapers cinema music radio posters
Control of books [3]
1) no books published w/o goebbles perm
2) mein kampf best seller
3) 1933 burned unacceptable books
Control of art [3]
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
Control of newspapers [3]
1) jewish and anti nazi newspapers closed down
2) not allowed to prin anti nazi articles
3) became boring, circulation fell by 10%
Control of cinema [3]
1) all films had to carry pro-nazi message
2) newsreels before film showed greatness of Hitler
3) goebbles censored all foreign films
Control of Music [1]
banned jazz music bc was ‘black’ music
Control of radio [6]
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
Control of posters [1]
HItler and Nazi success
1936 olympics [8]
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
Jesse owens [3]
1) black athlete, star of olympics
2) 4 gold, broke 11 world records
3) success called aryan supremacy into question
Nazis and Churches [5]
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
Catholic Bishop Galen [4]
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
Pastor Martin Niemoller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
Persecution of minorities [4]
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
Euthanasia programme [3]
1) 1939, against mentally handicapped
2) 5000 babies and children killed by injection/starvation
3) 72000 mentally ill gassed, mentally ill sterilised
how many gypsies killed 1939
5/6
Why are jews hated [4]
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
Persecution of Jews [6]
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
When were Nuremberg Laws and what were they
1935
took away jews german citizenship
Kristallnacht date and why it happened
Nov 1938, young jew killed german diplomat in paris
Kristallnacht purpose and events and aftermath [3]
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
Kristallnacht casualties and stats [4]
91 jews murdered
hundreds of synagogues burned
20000 jews to conc camps
thousands left country
Political opposition [4]
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
Social opposition [5]
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
opposition from youth [5]
swing youth
edelweiss pirates
meuten
white rose
upper class
Swing movement [5]
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
Meuten [3]
1) working class teen and young adults
2) sympathised w/ socialist ideology
3) freq attacked by nazis
Edelweiss pirates [7]
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
The White rose [3]
1) published anti nazi leaflets
2) students of munich uni
3) were executed in 1943
Upper class [4]
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
When was attempted assassination of Hitler?
July 20th 1934
