Nazi Control

Question 1

What is Censorship?

Answer 1

When unacceptable parts, or whole books, films etc. are officially suppressed

Question 2

What were Concentration Camps?

Answer 2

Prisons were inmates were treated with great brutality

Question 3

Who were the Gestapo?

Answer 3

Nazi Secret Police

Question 4

What is indoctrination?

Answer 4

Brainwashing people into accepting ideas

Question 5

What is a Police State?

Answer 5

A totalitarian state controlled by a police force

Question 6

How did the Nazis control Germans through fear?

Answer 6

The Police State
Law Courts
Control of Churches

Question 7

How did the Nazis control by indoctrination?

Answer 7

Censorship

Propaganda

Question 8

Name the key features of the Nazi Police State

Answer 8

SS
SA
Concentration Camps
Gestapo
Control of legal system

Question 9

What was the SS’s role in the Police State?

Answer 9

Absolute power over those who did not follow Nazis
Could arrest and imprison without trial
Began to terrorise Germans and hunt down enemies of the state
By 1939 162,000 people had been imprisoned without trial

Question 10

What was the role of the Gestapo in the Police State?

Answer 10

To seek out opponents of the regime
Phone tapping/ spying
Used informers

Question 11

How did Hitler control the courts in Germany?

Answer 11

All judges took oath of loyalty to him
Got rid of juries
Trials usually resulted in a guilty verdict
Number of crimes punishable by death rose from 3 in 1933 to 46 by 1943 (listening to foreign radio station/ telling anti-Nazi joke)

Question 12

Where and when was the first concentration camp set up?

Answer 12

Dachau in 1933

Question 13

What was Goebbels official job title?

Answer 13

Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda

Question 14

What methods did Goebbels use to control Germans? hint Not different types of Propaganda

Answer 14

Book burning
No book could be published without his permission
Radio- all had short range so could not pick up foreign stations
Newspapers- against Nazis closed down/ had to get news from Nazi news agency
Reich Chamber of Culture- artists/ actors/ authors had to be a member to get approved work published/ perform

Question 15

What methods of propaganda did Goebbels use to control Germans?

Answer 15

Posters
Radio
Cinema
Berlin Olympics 1936
Rallies
Culture

Question 16

By 1939, what percentage of German homes had a radio?

Answer 16

70%

Question 17

Where did the Nazis hold their annual Party rally?

Answer 17

Nuremberg

Question 18

Why did Hitler want to reduce the influence of the Catholic church?

Answer 18

Catholics owed first allegiance to Pope
Preferred to send children to Catholic youth movement and schools
Catholic schools did not have the same level of control as state schools

Question 19

What is the name of the agreement Hitler signed with the Catholic church in 1933?

Answer 19

Concordat

Question 20

What were the terms of the Concordat?

Answer 20

Hitler promised not to interfere with the Catholic church

Catholic church would stay out of politics

Question 21

When was the Catholic Youth made illegal?

Answer 21

1937

Question 22

What effect did Hitler’s policies have on the Catholic Church?

Answer 22

Priests in concentration camps seen as martyrs
Church leaders applauded when they appeared in public
Churches packed every Sunday

Question 23

Who was the leader of the Reich Church?

Answer 23

Ludwig Muller

Question 24

What was the Reich Church?

Answer 24

Essentially a Nazi Church

Some leaders wore Nazi uniforms and gave the Nazi salute

Question 25

What was the Confessional Church?

Answer 25

A Protestant church which opposed Hitler and the Reich Church

Question 26

Who was the leader of the Confessional Church?

Answer 26

Pastor Martin Niemoller

Question 27

Who was the leader of the SS?

Answer 27

Heinrich Himmler

Question 28

Who was the leader of the SD and Gestapo?

Answer 28

Reinhard Heydrich

Question 29

How many men were in the SS by the 1930’s?

Answer 29

240,000

Question 30

What type of man did Himmler want to be in the SS?

Answer 30

Examples of perfect German Manhood

Expected to marry ‘racially pure’ wives and create ‘racially pure’ Germans for the future.

Question 31

What was the role of the SD?

Answer 31

Uniformed

Kept an index of details of everyone suspected of opposing the Nazis

Question 32

What was the role of the Gestapo?

Answer 32

Non- uniformed secret police
Spy on people
Tap phones
Use network of informants
Had permission to use torture

Question 33

What was the main weapon of the Gestapo?

Answer 33

Fear- could not tell who they were!

Question 34

Why was fear of the police force important to Hitler?

Answer 34

Never more than 30,000 Gestapo agents to police a population of 80 million! Fear was the greatest weapon!

Question 35

How did Goebbels use the radio to control Germans?

Answer 35

All stations were Nazi
Senior Nazi’s made regular broadcasts
Radios were cheap and placed in cafes, factories and schools.
Speakers were placed on streets
By 1939 70% of households had a radio
Radios had a short range- could not pick up foreign stations

Question 36

How did Goebbels ‘Nazify’ sport?

Answer 36

Covered stadiums in Nazi symbols
Insist all teams (inc visiting teams from abroad) did Nazi salute during national anthem
Hailing all victories for Nazi ideals- striving to be the best

Question 37

What were the key features of Nazi cultural ideals?

Answer 37

Romantic ideas about Germany’s past

Nazi ideals- loyalty, struggle, self- sacrifice, discipline

Question 38

How did Albert Speer design buildings to reflect Nazi ideals?

Answer 38

Designed huge buildings!
Key features of Ancient Rome and Greece- such as domes, arches and pillars
Use of Nazi flag

Question 39

Which composers were promoted in Nazi Germany?

Answer 39

Wagner
Beethoven
Bach