Nazi Control and Opposition

Question 1

Who were the main intelligence gathering organisation?

Answer 1

SD

Question 2

What was the aim of concentration camps?

Answer 2

To concentrate enemies of the state, not to kill them (death camps came later)

Question 3

Who did judges have to take an oath of loyalty to?

Answer 3

Hitler

Question 4

What is the most famous organisation in the SS?

Answer 4

Gestapo

Question 5

What did the SS uniform and logo look like?

Answer 5

Black uniforms and the logo was 2 s made to look like a lightning bolt

Question 6

Most information was gathered from who?

Answer 6

The public people

Question 7

What were the SD focused on?

Answer 7

Opposition to the party itself, particularly from the church

Question 8

In concentration camps the prisoners were kept where and made to do what?

Answer 8

In barracks and manual labour

Question 9

What was the name of the harshest court?

Answer 9

The people’s court

Question 10

What techniques did the gestapo ruthlessly use on potential enemies?

Answer 10

Torture techniques

Question 11

The Nazis also used who as information

Answer 11

Block leaders

Question 12

Who was the SD lead by?

Answer 12

Reinhad Hendrich

Question 13

What did the Reich Press Chamber allow the nazis to do

Answer 13

Control newspapers

Question 14

By 1939 what fraction of newspapers did the nazis own?

Answer 14

2/3

Question 15

What did the Reich Culture Chamber do?

Answer 15

Supervised and regulated all culture including art, theatre, literature and architecture

Question 16

What culture was promoted?

Answer 16

Culture that emphasized aryan strength

Question 17

What was abstract culture for example art using only shapes was deemed as what?

Answer 17

Degenerate meaning alien, wicked and undesirable

Question 18

What was the most modern type of media and through what did the nazis control it?

Answer 18

Films were controlled through the Reich Film Chamber

Question 19

Why did the nazis try to limit foreign films coming into Germany?

Answer 19

So that only German films were shown in cinemas

Question 20

Why did the nazis hold rallies?

Answer 20

To show their strength

Question 21

What were rallies

Answer 21

They were like festivals with marches, speeches and parades

Question 22

What were held in Berlin in 1936

Answer 22

The Olympic games and they were used as propaganda

Question 23

What were taken down during the Olympics

Answer 23

Antisemitic signs

Question 24

All national and local radio stations were controlled through the what?

Answer 24

Reich Radio Company

Question 25

By 1939 what percent of people had a radio in their homes?

Answer 25

70

Question 26

How many people’s receivers were made in 1933?

Answer 26

1.5 million

Question 27

Some examples of nazi opposition?

Answer 27

Swing kids, Christian youth, social Democrats, jehovah’s witnesses, edelweiss pirates, pope pius xi, martin niemoller, young communists, the comunists, white rose